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United Technologies to Offer Energy Saving Solutions to AWRG

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United Technologies Corporation’s business arm — EcoEnergy Insights — will make Pizza Hut restaurants of American West Restaurant Group (“AWRG”) more energy efficient with its state-of-the-art Internet of Things(IoT)-based energy-management solutions. EcoEnergy Insights is a division of UTC Climate, Controls & Security — a business segment of United Technologies.

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AWRG is the third largest Pizza Hut franchisee of the United States. In sync with the aforementioned deal, EcoEnergy Insights has created a customized IoT-based program for AWRG’s restaurants in Utah and California. This program will aid in integrating buildings across borders, thereby giving rise to more environmental sustainability and energy savings. EcoEnergy Insight's IoT-based advanced analytics solutions will help lower carbon footprint across all the Pizza Hut restaurants of AWRG. These intelligent IoT and CORTIX artificial intelligence solutions will be able to set up a three-prolonged energy site control strategy in every restaurant of AWRG. Notably, on the back of the deal, AWRG intends to bring in $2-million savings through energy efficiency from its 250 Pizza Hut restaurants over the next five years.

Prior to this, in 2015, AWRG had used EcoEnergy Insights’ solutions in a bid to trim its average monthly energy utilization by 15%. Within a year and a half, these solutions successfully reduced AWRG’s average monthly energy usage by nearly 18%.

Price Performance

Over the past month, United Technologies’ shares have rallied 3.9%, outperforming 0.6% growth recorded by the industry.

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