Track Utilities & Performance in Because 📊

Welcome to because my name is Robin.

And in this video, I will show you how you can track your utilities and your performance in Because.

Once you're logged into the platform from the get started page, the first thing we'll need to do is go to the Utility Tracker.

Under my data collection.

On the left hand side you click on Utility Tracker.

From here we see the Utility Tracker.

The Utility tracker contains a ton of different different data points that you can track.

For example, we have number of occupied rooms, your total renewable energy consumption, total electricity consumption, natural gas, waste water and so forth.

You can filter on the different topics here.

If you want to only look at water consumption for example, or energy.

And another way to manage what you see in the Utility tracker is by clicking up here to manage data points.

Here you can toggle on and off any data points you want to track and they will be visible in the Utility Tracker.

Here you can fill in month by month all the way from January until December.

And the yearly summary will be here.

On the totals you can always choose the unit type you wish to input data in.

In this case it's kilowatt hours.

This we can also switch to any other energy type.

If you switch between different unit types, there will always be the possibility to convert.

So your data is in the correct format.

All the data you input into the utility tracker we're able to visualize in dashboards.

And that brings me to the next step.

Dashboards can be found in the left hand side under analytics.

From here we have the Consumption overview.

The consumption overview lets you track your utilities on a year to year basis.

In this case we're looking at 2024 and 2025 and can track the totals for our hotel that's on total GHG emissions, total energy consumption, total waste, total water.

And so as you can see here, we can see the difference also the change from year to year.

If we go to the consumption trends dashboard, This will allow us to dig a little bit deeper on our data.

While we have the totals as you saw before here on the consumption overview, we do also have split sections for different topics.

For carbon footprint, we have all the greenhouse gases.

For energy, we have all the energy data points.

For water, water waste.

And lastly, we have business metrics.

Within each of these sections you have different graphs.

For example, here on the total GHG emissions we can switch the units if we wanted to look at kilos instead.

As you can see here.

We can also switch to yearly if we wanted to track it from year to year.

And then we can always open up the details here if you want to see the specific data points for each year.

For any data points where you don't have any data to display.

For example here scope 3 outsourced laundry.

If you don't have any data, it's because it's not in the utility tracker as shown before.

Once you populate that with data will be able to visualize it in the dashboards here we also have something called calculated metrics.

Something like water consumption by room night is a calculated metric.

So if you provide us with your room nights as well as your water consumption, then we're able to visualize this for you.

If you're ever in doubt about anything or have questions to the platform or any technical issues, you're always more than welcome to reach out to our support team via the little chat widget here in the bottom right hand side, and that will give you a direct line to our support team.

Thank you so much.