Compressors are responsible for 10 per cent of all the power consumed in a mature industrial society like the UK and Ireland. Frequently 10 per cent or more of this air will be wasted because of leakage caused by poor maintenance, bad design of air lines, acidic condensate attacking seals and joints just to name a few of the possibilities. Therefore it makes sense to do regular audits on the power consumed, flow, pressure, dew point and leakage as a starting point. Is this commonly done? Matthew Harrison, Regional Sales Manager at Beko Technologies, says: “No this type of extensive measurement is rare but smart companies are realising that you can’t know too much about what is happening within your compressed air network. You can avoid problems and be sure that you are operating to an efficiency that is acceptable if you regularly even better have a permanent output of key parameters within the system. Now that the Beko Data Logger is available it is very easy for me and Beko Technologies colleagues to monitor up to 12 outputs per BDL installed which is plenty for the normal compressed air system. These outputs are not limited to the devices that we market but could for example use pulse outputs for gas metering or PT100/PT1000 or KTY temperature sensors and many others.The BDL has the capability of 12 inputs, but can also be offered with the option o 4 or 8 inputs.  What is important is that these inputs can be digital or analogue. Before with the older unit we only had the capability of 2 digital and 2 analogues, so we were not able to offer multiple measuring points. This makes it very easy for Beko Technologies to give the client a complete picture of his system tailored to the KPIs that are important to him.”