Energy monitoring for commercial buildings
Lumio connects the electricity and heat meters you already have, shows usage hour by hour and alerts you when something draws energy for no reason. No rebuild, no new meters.
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Most organisations follow their energy use through a single number a month. That tells you about as much as running your finances on the year’s combined bank statement.
Ventilation that runs all night, lights that are never switched off and heating in empty rooms all disappear into one lump sum. A building that wastes 15 percent every night looks perfectly normal at monthly level.
Anything drawing power at 3 am on an ordinary Tuesday does so without anyone asking for it. In connected buildings, 38 percent of night-time use has no operational reason.
The most common single fault is a broken or misconfigured schedule: 44 percent of all anomalies the platform alerts on.
Premises that have stood empty for months keep being heated because nobody sees it. The faults are cheap per night and expensive per year.
02:14Ventilation running
Air handler TA3 started without a schedule and ran for four hours. 38 kWh for no reason.
02:14Ventilation running
Air handler TA3 started without a schedule and ran for four hours. 38 kWh for no reason.
Sample data from a fictional 8,400 square metre office building. Hover over the points on the curve.
We connect the main meter and add sub-meters on ventilation, heating and other large loads. Done in a couple of days per building.
After two to four weeks the model has a baseline per metering point: how the building behaves on an ordinary Tuesday, a weekend, a public holiday. Adjusted for outdoor temperature and opening hours.
When a curve breaks its pattern, an alert goes to the person who can fix it, with the metering point, the time and a suggested fix.
We thought we had it under control because the bill looked like last year’s. In the first week of hourly data we found a garage fan that had been running around the clock since 2023. It never showed, because it had always been on.
The night level was 47 percent of the daytime load and nobody could say why. Six months later: 24 percent, and an electricity bill SEK 410,000 lower per year.
The night level was 47 percent of the daytime load even though the terminals stood still between 1 and 5 am. Six months later it is 24 percent, and the electricity bill SEK 410,000 lower per year.
Read the post →An air handler running six hours too long costs a few hundred kronor a night. The fault repeats 365 times a year. Here are the five loads we find most often, and what they cost.
Read the post →The night level is the average between midnight and 5 am divided by the day’s peak load. One number per building is enough to know which one to look at first.
Read the post →The demo takes 30 minutes. We show hourly data, baseline and alerts based on your kind of business, and what connecting would mean for you.
