Education

Edviro for schools and campuses

Edviro started in Northern California schools. The founder built a dashboard for his own high school’s facilities team, and it spread to more schools from there. Today it reads a district’s meters, BMS and utility bills, flags waste when it starts, drafts the fix and checks the meter after the work is done. Your team approves every change.

No new hardware. Works with the controls you have. Every change approved by a person.

Edviro so far (backed by Y Combinator)
$500KSaved for customers
134Sites company-wide
PAUSDPalo Alto Unified School District
LGSUHSDLos Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District

What is Edviro for schools?

Edviro is an AI facilities crew for school districts and campuses. It checks the meters, building management system and utility bills a district already has, every day. When something drifts, such as a boiler short-cycling or HVAC running through a break, it works out the likely cause and drafts a fix. A person on your team approves it, the work gets done, and Edviro compares the building data with its learned baseline to see whether the fix held.

What it catches in schools

The gas reading under “Stuck valves” is a real one. The other figures are examples of how a finding reads.

Fix draftedBoiler short-cyclingA boiler starting 14 times an hour. The drafted fix lists the reset steps.
Staged for approvalAfter-hours and summer runtimeHVAC running on weekends as if the building were occupied, or a summer-break month that comes in 22% over expected.
Schedule proposedVentilation and comfortCO₂ climbing in a gym or a classroom.
ForecastDemand spikesEach week Edviro forecasts the days most likely to set a peak and proposes pre-cooling.
Investigation openedStuck valvesAt one school the gas meter read 76 therms in a day against 16.7 expected. The likely cause was a hot-water valve stuck open.
Raised with installerSolar underperformanceSolar production is tracked against expected output, so a shortfall can be raised with the installer.

How it works: a cold classroom

A custodian reports a cold room, and this is what happens next.

01

Signal

A custodian writes: “Room 214 is freezing again. Kids are in coats.”

02

Diagnose

Edviro finds the RTU-3 heating stage isn’t firing, for the third time in 30 days. Supply air is 58°F where it should be 92°F.

03Human

Review

The facilities lead reads the drafted fix and approves it at 9:47 AM.

04

Dispatch

The technician goes to site and replaces the igniter.

05

Verify

By 11:20 supply air is back to 91°F and the room is holding 70°F.

Work orders, assets and maintenance

The AI Crew is the subscription. If you don’t already have a tool for asset logging, utility tracking, project management or facilities scheduling, you can add ours as free modules. Work orders is a paid module.

Work ordersRequests come in from the app, by email or from a BMS alarm. Each one gets a cause, a priority and a named reviewer before it’s dispatched.→Assets and inspectionsEvery boiler, RTU and panel has a record with its nameplate, documents, service history and next inspection date.→
Preventive maintenanceRecurring work is scheduled against the asset. Repeat failures and rising repair cost move an asset up the list.
In the fieldThe technician gets the assignment, the asset history and the steps on a phone. Photos and notes are saved to the work order.

Keep your CMMS or use ours

Monitoring, diagnosis and verification work the same either way. You can switch later.

Connect

Keep your CMMS

Edviro sends approved work into your CMMS and reads the outcome back. We confirm what the integration covers system by system.

Integrations →
Add

Use Edviro’s modules

Work orders, assets, inspections and mobile field workflows. Asset logging is free with the AI Crew subscription, and work orders is a paid module. We import your lists and open work first.

Modules →
Either way

What stays the same

Building data confirms the fix in both setups, and the repair history feeds preventive maintenance and the capital plan.

How Edviro works →

K–12 and higher education

K–12

K–12 districts

Many small sites and a small team. Problems from every school go on a single list, ranked by cost and comfort. In one district of seven schools, we found one school using five times the energy of its peers.

Edviro for K–12 districts →
Higher education

Universities and campuses

Labs, central plants and a lot of buildings. Fault diagnosis and measurement and verification sit alongside the work orders.

Edviro for universities and campuses →

Common questions

Do we need new hardware or a new BMS?

No. Edviro reads the meters, building management system and utility bills you already have. Where a site has no interval meter, metering can be added later.

Does Edviro change setpoints or schedules on its own?

No. Edviro proposes the change and tests it against how the building behaved before. Someone on your team approves it before anything is sent to the BMS.

Can Edviro replace our CMMS?

Yes. The modules cover work orders, asset records, inspections and mobile field workflows. Asset logging is free with the AI Crew subscription, and work orders is a paid module. You can also keep your CMMS and connect it.

How is this different from an energy audit?

An audit looks at a building once. Edviro checks every site every day, so it catches drift when it starts and can check each fix against the learned baseline afterwards.

How fast does a district see results?

We connect a few sites first and show you what Edviro catches in the first week.

Does it work for higher education campuses?

Yes. Edviro serves higher education customers today.

Book a demo

See what Edviro finds in your buildings.

Pick a 30-minute slot and we’ll walk through your sites with you.

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