Edviro for commercial real estate

In office buildings, Edviro uses your WiFi access points or its own occupancy sensors to see which floors are in use. When a floor is empty and still being conditioned, it drafts an HVAC schedule change for a person on your team to approve, then checks the load change on the meter.

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Occupancy from WiFi access points or Edviro sensors. Works with any major BMS. A person approves every change.

What is occupancy-aware energy management for commercial real estate?

It means comparing how many people are in each zone with how that zone is being heated, cooled and lit. Edviro gets occupancy from WiFi access points or from its own occupancy sensors, and reads HVAC mode and load from the BMS and meters. When a zone is empty and still in occupied mode, it drafts a setback and a restore rule. Nothing changes until a named person approves it, and each approved change is checked against a baseline of the same weekdays.

Example: an empty wing on a weeknight

Floor 4 East of an office tower.

Signal

WiFi device counts on Floor 4 East drop to near zero at 6 pm.

Diagnose

The zone stays in occupied mode until 10 pm. Edviro drafts a change: unoccupied from 6:30 pm, restore on the first badge-in.

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Review

Facilities approves the drafted change.

Dispatch

The BMS applies the approved schedule.

Verify

After-hours HVAC load is 41% lower over five weeknights, compared with the same weekdays before the change.

How it works in an office

Occupancy from WiFi or sensorsEdviro counts devices on the WiFi access points on each floor. It can also use its own occupancy sensors.

Connects to the BMS and metersIt reads the BMS, main meters and submeters. Edviro works with Niagara, Carrier i-Vu and all major BMS vendors.

A person approvesEach setback, restore rule or pre-cooling change is drafted with the evidence attached. A named person approves it before the BMS applies it.

Checked on the meterEach change is compared with the baseline and reported as measured load.

What it catches

Empty zones in occupied modeFloors and wings still being conditioned after people have left.

Weekend short cyclingA chiller cycling on and off with nobody in the building.

Lighting overridesLobby or floor lighting left on past its schedule.

Demand peaksEdviro forecasts the daily peak from weather, occupancy and load, and drafts pre-cooling ahead of it.

Example

What your team sees

There is no alarm list. Each item is a diagnosed fix that is waiting for approval, in progress or verified. Verified changes also feed the capital plan, which ranks buildings, systems and retrofits by payback from measured use.

All sites / FixesFM

Tower A1 needs review

Floor 4 East setbackTower A · Floor 4 East · empty after 6 pm, fix draftedNeeds review

Chiller 2 short cyclingTower A · Chiller 2 · weekend cyclingIn progress

Lobby lighting overrideTower A · Lobby · back on scheduleVerified

Who uses it

Asset or portfolio managerSees which buildings waste the most and which retrofits pay back first.

Chief engineerGets each drafted fix with its evidence, and approves, edits or rejects it.

Property managerSets the restore rule, so a zone comes back on when it fills early and tenants stay comfortable.

Sustainability and ESGGets the measured load change for reporting.

Common questions

Where does the occupancy data come from?

From the WiFi access points on each floor, or from Edviro’s own occupancy sensors. Edviro compares occupancy with each zone’s HVAC and lighting mode. When they disagree, it drafts a schedule change with the evidence attached.

Does Edviro change setpoints or schedules on its own?

No. A named person approves, edits or rejects each change. Approved changes go through your BMS schedule and are logged.

Will setbacks affect tenant comfort?

Setbacks apply only to empty space. Your team sets the restore rule: first badge-in, first WiFi device, or a fixed time.

What systems does Edviro connect to?

The BMS, main meters and submeters, and WiFi occupancy data. It works alongside the CMMS you already have. If you don’t have one, you can add Edviro’s work-order module.

How does Edviro reduce peak demand charges?

It forecasts the daily peak and drafts pre-cooling or load shifting for approval. The avoided demand is then checked in interval meter data.

How does Edviro help prioritize capital projects?

It simulates retrofits, replacements and controls upgrades against each building’s model and ranks them by payback from measured use.

Measurement and verificationHow a load change is checked on the meter.→Capital planningHow retrofits are ranked by payback.→IntegrationsBMS, meters, WiFi and CMMS connections.→

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