Retail

Energy savings at scale. Less manual effort. Real-time execution.

Avani helps large retail organisations reduce energy costs and manual effort at portfolio scale, maintaining consistent performance across hundreds or thousands of stores.

The Avani Difference

Purpose-Built to Operate at Retail Scale

Avani solves the fundamental retail challenge: how do you benefit from store-level strategies without store-level deployment costs?

Our platform is engineered specifically for centralised automation, initiatives are programmed once and deployed across entire portfolios in minutes. We integrate across different generations of stores and systems, apply analytics continuously, and automate action where possible, turning insight into execution at scale.

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Retail

The Core Problem: Action Doesn't Scale

Data isn't the problem, most retailers can already see which stores are underperforming. The problem is what happens next. Site-by-site fixes destroy the business case for most energy initiatives.

Manual Investigation Doesn't Scale

Every alert requires someone to investigate, log in, and fix, one store at a time.

Rollouts Are Slow and Expensive

Deploying a strategy to hundreds of stores means hundreds of site visits and contractor costs.

Inconsistent Systems, Inconsistent Results

Multiple generations of stores and equipment make standardisation nearly impossible.

What Avani Does for Retail

How Avani Delivers for Retail

Purpose-built capabilities for large-scale portfolios.

Integration at Scale

A fully connected portfolio where real-time data flows consistently, assets last longer, and scale becomes a competitive advantage.

We integrate with systems others can't — legacy platforms, bespoke store configurations, and mixed equipment across multiple generations. Avani normalises how assets are named, structured, and managed across your entire portfolio, creating a consistent operating model regardless of store age or vendor. Real-time data every 5 minutes is a core requirement, not an optional extra — without it, automation doesn't work.

Advanced Analytics

Continuous energy savings, earlier fault detection, and consistent performance — delivered at scale, without adding headcount.

Retail-specific algorithms run 24/7, comparing every store against every other store to uncover anomalies, performance differences, and hidden inefficiencies. Benchmarking shows which sites are over-performing, under-performing, or behaving differently than peers. Baselining tracks expected performance over time — detecting gradual degradation before it becomes a major issue. Insights feed directly into automated workflows.

Automation at Scale

Portfolio-wide energy reduction and faster issue resolution — delivered centrally and reliably.

The biggest challenge in retail isn't identifying opportunities — it's executing change across thousands of stores without exploding labour costs. Avani enables strategies like optimal start/stop, scheduling, and fault-triggered workflows to be configured once and deployed across entire portfolios in seconds. Automated work orders are pushed directly into your CMMS with context, history, and priority already applied. What would cost millions in store-by-store rollouts can be achieved in hours.

Demand Response

Reduce peak exposure, participate in grid programs, and protect critical assets — without store-by-store deployment costs.

Respond to grid events or peak demand conditions across hundreds or thousands of stores simultaneously — without store-by-store configuration or manual intervention. Built-in protection logic ensures equipment operates within safe limits, actions are staged and fully reversible, and store environments remain operational. Intelligent workflows, not blunt shutdowns.

Reporting & Compliance

Better decisions, less reporting effort, and confidence that data is accurate and audit-ready.

Results

Retail Case Studies

Saving Energy Through Innovation in the Retail Sector

HOYTS was facing skyrocketing energy costs, inconsistent systems, and zero visibility across its cinema network. Avani stepped in with a unified, automated solution that cut waste, standardized operations, and enabled the head office with full control.

80% maintenance reduction

11% energy savings

"Working with Avani has revolutionised operations across our +60 locations. We've been able to automate HVAC scheduling based on occupancy data and standardise analytics across all sites, uncovering savings we couldn't have identified before. Avani has made a measurable difference to our operational performance and sustainability efforts."