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When customers operate their equipment poorly, the time has come for Product-as-a-Service. The cooling of large building complexes such as shopping centres, university campuses or offices is a case in point.

In this episode, Dave Mackerness, Director at kaer, explains how Cooling-as-a-Service work. By optimising the equipment, connecting it and operating it much more efficiently, Cooling-as-a-Service can yield cost and emission reductions.

This episode is the 14th in the series PaaS Decoded, 16 conversations about the fine details of product-as-a-service.

People
Dave Mackerness, Director at kaer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-mackerness-356a86115/

Patrick Hypscher, Co-Founder of Green PO, Expert in Sustainable Business Models
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hypscher/

Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:06 Why turning building operations carbon neutral is complicated
06:44 Benefits of Cooling-as-a-Service
07:45 How Cooling-as-a-Service works
10:10 Connectivity as enabler for improved Efficiency
11:36 The role of data, forecasting and machine learning
13:52 Adjusting the hardware and avoiding technology lock-in
17:36 Pay per refrigerant ton hours
19:34 Flexibility of the customer to start and stop Cooling as a Service
21:13 Educating the first-time customer is essential
24:55 Data as a key enabler for service efficiency
26:48 Start with Why and use as a Service as an instrument
29:31 More Interoperability and Personalisation ahead

About kaer, from website
Kaer specialises in providing cooling to commercial and industrial buildings throughout Asia.

Further Links
Kaer https://www.kaer.com/
Energy Partners Africa https://energypartners.co.za/
African container company https://www.coldhubs.com/
SET Alliance https://set-alliance.org/

Transcript
See the episode page for the transcript: https://circularity.fm/kaer-cooling-as-a-service-and-the-role-of-technology/