What began as a 90-day pilot trial grew to a successful enterprise-wide deployment of Swarm Logic. Barnes & Noble initially installed Swarm Logic at 30 stores and after seeing the successful results, they subscribed the remaining 400+ sites.

The retail chain realized a significant decrease in energy consumption and demand while maintaining building comfort for customers and employees. Swarm Logic efficiently maintained the desired temperature and humidity throughout each site, including the challenges of micro-climates within each site caused by the café, occupancy and weather conditions.

The facility management team also valued that Swarm Logic operates autonomously in the background and requires no human intervention to maintain or monitor its actions, so no additional work was required to realize the full benefits of deployment.

Swarm Logic technology also provides customers and HVAC service vendors with access to Swarm Portal, Encycle’s web-based reporting platform that features robust analytics and role-based permission sets.

The retailer’s HVAC service vendor was impressed with the operational data from Swarm Portal and regularly uses the platform to report on store comfort and identify potential mechanical issues, allowing service personnel to address underperforming units and reduce emergency service calls.