Energy Manager

What's In It For You

Product Story

Energy Manager is a simple device you add to your Herman Miller systems furniture to improve its performance by saving electrical energy.

Energy Manager controls two of the four circuits of power in a cluster of workstations. When a person sits down to work, an occupancy sensor detects their presence and turns on the devices in the cluster plugged into those two circuits—task lights, printers, monitors, chargers, etc. When the cluster is unoccupied, the devices automatically turn off.
Product Story

It can also provide accurate, valuable information by measuring, monitoring, and reporting energy use and workstation occupancy when it's Convia-enabled. As a result, Energy Manager can contribute up to 10 LEED credits.

You start saving energy the day you install it. The patented, UL-listed Energy Manager helps your furniture investment work harder and your facility work more efficiently—for your business and the world around you.

How It Works

Energy Manager installs easily between building power and the modular power of Herman Miller systems, either new or retrofit. The unit is simple and compact, even unnoticeable.

Each Energy Manager can control the power to any two of the four circuits feeding a cluster of workstations—up to eight. The other two circuits are unaffected, preventing the unwanted depowering of devices that must remain always on.
How It Works

Energy Manager's infrared occupancy sensor under the work surface detects a person's presence in a workstation cluster, turning on the devices plugged into the two circuits. After the person leaves, devices automatically turn off in 10 minutes.

Two Forms of Energy Manager

Energy Manager: operates by itself using occupancy sensing to save customers energy because devices are on only when a cluster of workstations is occupied.

It can also be connected to a Convia programmable gateway to become Convia-enabled. This gives it the capability to create reports on workstation occupancy and to be used as a triggering device for the gateway to control other building systems.
Energy Monitoring

Energy Manager, with Energy Monitoring: same capabilities as Energy Manager when Convia-enabled and provides a higher level of performance and even more cost savings. With energy monitoring capability, it can also provide reports on energy consumption.

Benefits

You'll start to save energy and reduce operating costs the day you install Energy Manager, because devices often left on turn off automatically once the cluster of workstations is unoccupied. It's one less thing workers have to worry about.

Energy Manager, when Convia-enabled, measures and monitors occupancy data from every workstation. The information helps you optimize floor plans and worker adjacencies to gain real estate savings and improve productivity.
Benefits

Energy Manager, with Energy Monitoring also measures, monitors, and reports energy consumption. The reports help you identify opportunities for savings as well as verify and demonstrate your progress toward energy-reduction goals.

Energy Manager can contribute up to 10 LEED credits.

Applications

In the open plan, Energy Manager works in Herman Miller systems furniture at the workstation cluster level.

In private offices and conference rooms, floor and ceiling boxes from Herman Miller's alliance partner, Legrand/Wiremold, manage electrical loads. The two product lines are complementary, generating savings throughout a facility.