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Few things are more important to your cold storage operations than product safety. And there's one system that's crucial toward the goal of keeping stored food safe: your industrial refrigeration. Your refrigeration running efficiently and free of operational issues isn't an option, it's a necessity.
NRM's mission is to enhance your ability to manage, maintain, and troubleshoot your system. For thirty years we've been perfecting our control and monitoring tools to serve our customers, helping them be more proactive than reactive when it comes to refrigeration.
Transform how your refrigeration impacts your business
From on-demand defrost to real-time visual diagnostics, you'll have so many better ways to manage the system exactly how you need than to "set it and forget it." NRM's tools and measures decrease energy use, extend equipment life, and improve food safety.
Automated Temperature Logging
Eliminate the element of human error in your temperature recordkeeping by having it logged to-the-second automatically, with up to 10 years of historical records.
On-Demand
Instant Defrost
Notice ice building up on your evaporator coils? Don’t wait for your ref. tech on a service call, start a defrost from your phone or on the controller.
Real-Time Visual Operating Trends
Discover the root cause of an issue with visual trends that show how your system is running in real time. Consult dozens of data points to make informed decisions.
High-Impact Runtime Reductions
NRM's powerful solution adapts your system's operation to your exact needs. Certain components do not need to run 100% to maintain safe temperatures.
Energy-Efficiency Hardware Upgrades
Many refrigeration systems contain outdated, inefficient components. Upgrade to newer models in areas like evaporator fan motors or updating to electric defrost.
High/Low Temp. + Many More Alerts
Arm yourself with a wealth of operational alarms to stay ahead of expensive emergencies and at-risk product. Unique alerts like short cycling or amp. spikes.
Online Dashboard with Mobile Access
Access live summary data for current operations whether you’re on-site or on-the-go. Or address an alert notification immediately and be more proactive.
May Qualify for Utility-Funded Incentives
NRM’s energy efficiency upgrades are verifiable and proven over the last 25 years. As a result, they often qualify for generous utility-funded incentives.
Avoid food safety crises with a wealth of operational data and proactive insights
Whether you have 1 cold space in a single school kitchen, or 100 cold spaces spread across an entire district, our live summary page gives you an immediate overview of all your cooling activity.
Quickly consult current and 7-day runtimes, cooling status, temperature settings, and address any alarms that have been triggered.
Consider the amount of time and effort you’d save by having critical operational info all conveniently in one place.
Arm yourself with powerful and unique visual diagnostics graphs to pinpoint exactly when and where an operating issue arises. Troubleshooting becomes more efficient and effective, helping to ensure the issue is resolved on the first technician visit.
The graphs show important but often overlooked components such as amperages, compressor cycles, the solenoid valve, and things like whether a door is open or not.
The monitoring platform offers transparent runtime and temperature data that provide the measurement and verification proof for accurate recordkeeping.
These graphs also allow you to actually see how much less energy your refrigeration system is using. While also tracking that safe temperatures are always met.
Store up to 10 years of operational logs that take the human-error component out of tracking temperatures.
Going beyond a high temperature alert — which occurs only after an issue has already disrupted operations — NRM’s platform provides a suite of early detection notifications to help you be more proactive with troubleshooting.
For example, a compressor that’s short cycling will still likely be able to cool the space, but it’s dangerous, unnoticed overuse could lead to a critical system failure, jeopardizing the entire cooler’s worth of food.
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With some preliminary information about your business, such as current facility operations, energy costs, and most importantly your optimization goals, we can give you a general idea of how we may be able to help.
From there, we’ll decide together the next best step to take. It could be a full, no-obligation refrigeration assessment to identify your actual opportunities, or it could be checking with your utility provider if they offer any incentives for energy-efficiency projects.
Hear From Customers Like You
Baldor Boston, a wholesale/distributor in Chelsea, MA finds the 24/7 instant alarms about abnormal changes in their systems' operation and can address the issue even when off-site.
Peter Condakes Co. is a wholesaler specializing in produce and utilizes NRM's solution to deliver total control of the temperatures and humidity of their vegetables based on when they need to sell them.
Colony Foods in Lawrence, MA is a distributor responsible for a range of perishable products. They use NRM's solution to keep an eye on their systems during off-hours.
Achieve provable, long-term energy savings
The combination of smart controls that optimize operation to run based on cooling need, hardware component upgrades, and preventative maintenance measures lead to proven results.
We've helped optimize hundreds of large cold facilities like yours
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Most common questions we get asked
How can NRM's solution save so much energy?
Refrigeration and HVAC equipment are sized for THE HOTTEST DAYS of the year, and they always add a safety factor in case more is needed. But the “hottest days” only happen 20-30 times per year, which means all systems are oversized for the other 330~ days. The CoolTrol® system manages all the loads to take advantage of the oversizing, and turns off loads that don’t need to be on all the time. It also manages defrost more closely to what is needed. Some facilities have very big cold rooms so they add redundant systems meaning that capacity can sometimes be 2-4x of what is needed on average days.
My refrigeration tech says it's not safe to turn off my evaporator fans. Is that true?
In an unsafe manner, yes. But with NRM’s solution, it is perfectly safe. Implemented in over 50,000 systems to-date, the new controls keep fans running when refrigeration is ON and only cycles them OFF and whenever refrigeration is OFF. Every running fan motor generates heat and the new system run time when air movement is not necessary. Why keep the heaters running once temperature set point is reached?
What kind of guarantee can you provide me that these savings are real?
NRM has earned the utility’s trust and confidence, which is the greatest guarantee we can offer. In some programs, NRM has been providing solutions since 1997 with the local utility company’s backing. We would not continue to win these contracts year over year if we didn’t produce deliver the projected savings.
Why is the utility company paying me money to use LESS energy?
Most states have adopted laws to get citizens and companies to use less energy as it is more economical to encourage consumers to use less energy through incentives than to build a new power plant which no one wants near them. Utilities are tasked with collecting a fee on your utility bill based on usage. It may be a line item shown as “public benefit charge” or “energy conservation charge”. This money accumulates and is used to fund the incentives that pay for energy efficiency optimizations.
Since it is available for all ratepayers, it is a great way to fund energy efficiency programs that give capacity back to the electrical grid while also reducing your commercial electric bill. So, it’s a smart investment to participate in the programs and to take advantage of the incentives to get some of your money back through upgrades to your own equipment.
The money isn’t free, but it will contribute toward qualified energy efficiency projects. It’s a great way to make a difference to your bottom line.
How much incentive do I qualify for?
It really depends on how much energy a project can save… just think of it as the utility buying capacity from you to prevent overtaxing the energy grid. The power you save now becomes available to new customers. To find out what you can get, we recommend a no cost assessment of your current system that will enable us to calculate savings that we then present to your utility company who allots the amount they will pay for your capacity. If your systems already are considered partially or totally energy efficient, there may be little or no opportunity for reducing energy or qualifying for an incentive.
What level of technical proficiency is required to use CoolTrol®?
CoolTrol® is designed specifically for you, the end user. It is equipped with software developed by NRM and is designed to intelligently operate equipment at optimum energy efficiency. It becomes your new refrigeration thermostat that takes advantage of every opportunity for saving energy. It has many user-friendly features and a superior user interface compared to traditional refrigeration thermostats that are primarily designed for technicians, not end users.