Services

Smart buildings

We live, work and play in buildings, and in commercial buildings the comfort of occupants drives productivity and tenant satisfaction. Delivering an optimal indoor environment on minimal energy is fundamental to a best-value business model for owners and managers.

Predictive building control

A decade of research in solar forecasting, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and site-specific meteorology produced EntroPBC™, a climate control technology that delivers predictive building control with no up-front investment.

EntroPBC™ works with your existing building management systems, from a single building to a global real estate portfolio, and reduces total energy costs by up to 40%. No changes to systems or hardware are required, and tenants stay comfortable while building performance is optimised.

Predictive building control schematic

Our strategic approach to energy management

Plan, deploy, operate

Building energy profile
Plan

Where the energy goes

Commercial and residential buildings consume about one-third of the world’s total energy, and HVAC is the single largest cost driver. Predictive energy management improves efficiency by anticipating and reacting to changing weather and solar irradiance conditions in real time.

Installation walkthrough
Deploy

A low-risk approach

Zero upfront cost and no hardware purchases required. Service fees are a share of the savings actually delivered, so the system pays for itself out of measured results rather than projected ones.

Control interface
Operate

How it runs

Weather at the building site and its surfaces is forecast in real time using in-house numerical weather prediction models and weather observation networks. Building energy use is then modelled against forecast weather and occupancy, so control setpoints move ahead of conditions rather than after them.