Energy Monitoring Platforms for Commercial Buildings

Problem Addressed
The energy required to heat, cool, and power our buildings is responsible for 19% of the UK’s carbon footprint. To make informed decisions about how we can best reduce a building’s operational emissions, we need to better understand the energy consumption of our existing buildings, in order to make management and optimisation easier. This can help drive down energy consumption, reduce cost and increase comfort.
The table below includes information about many of the solutions in this area with information provided by the solution provider. Please click on the company names to see more information about each solution.
Company name | Solution overview | Building type | Building data included | Output | Business model | Other metrics | Other services offered | Hardware | Stage of development |
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Metrikus | Helps real estate owners, facility managers and occupants understand and optimise their building’s energy usage so that steps can be taken to improve efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint | Office buildings, retail buildings, warehouses, data centers, hospitals, educational buildings, and more. | Temperature data from sensors, air quality data from sensors, humidity data from sensors, CO2 data from sensors, occupancy data, BMS data, meter/submeters, utility bills | Real time dashboard with energy insights, identifying inefficiencies, recommending solutions/actions, portfolio level reporting, API/integration to other platforms, benchmarking | SaaS subscription with three key tiers: essential, enterprise and enterprise plus | Water usage | Occupancy monitoring, indoor air quality monitoring, API for all building data | Partner with a range of hardware providers and give impartial recommendations based on a customer’s requirements | Implemented in over 100 buildings around the world |
Grid Edge | Uses AI to help commercial buildings advance towards their net-zero goals by reducing the amount of carbon being released through inefficient energy use. Uses a customer’s building data to automatically flex when, what, and how much energy a building uses | Commercial, Office buildings, retail, and education | Temperature data from sensors, air quality from sensors, humidity data from sensors, CO2 data from sensors, BMS data, meter/submeters, utility bills, variable electricity price data, grid constraint data, grid carbon intensity data | Real time dashboard with energy insights, identifying inefficiencies, recommending solutions/actions, portfolio level reporting, track initiatives over time, consumption reports, actions taken reports, tracking of comments for alignment behind actions | Monthly fee per site depending on modules activated | Comfort, solar, limited integration with some EV backends | <1hr onboarding for electricity consumption data, carbon load shifting opportunities | Work with what is in the building and support new IoT and BMS hardware | 100+ buildings deployed, fully commercial |
IES Live | Digital Twin enabled solution that delivers a complete view across operational building performance from historic and current data to simulated baselines and future scenarios | Large complex buildings or portfolio including: commercial real estate, manufacturing & industry, healthcare, education, local government, airports, data centres | Temperature data from sensors, air quality data from sensors, humidity data from sensors, CO2 data from sensors, occupancy data, BMS data, meter/submeters, weather data, utility bills, energy simulation data | Real time dashboard with energy insights, identifying inefficiencies, recommending solutions/actions, track initiatives over time, benchmarking, retrofit assessments & decarbonisation planning | Annual subscription per building | Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) conditions such as temperature, humidity and CO2 levels | No additional information | No formal partnerships | Commercially available |
Para | Offers expert-driven, certified, and scalable solutions with advanced analytics, leveraging 66 years of experience from building services engineers, architects, data | Commercial, healthcare, education, aviation/airports | Temperature data from sensors, air quality data from sensors, humidity data from sensors, CO2 data from sensors, occupancy data, BMS data, meter/submeters, weather data, utility bills | Real time dashboard with energy insights, identifying inefficiencies, recommending solutions/actions, assigning actions to different people, portfolio level reporting, track initiatives over time, API/integration to other platforms, benchmarking | Implementation Fee and Annual Subscription Fee (this includes licensing, hosting, support & maintenance) | Water usage | Smart city & smart buildings, consulting, buildings technology advisory, multidisciplinary engineering design, Cybersecurity, AI/ML services, entreprise asset management, data analytics | Para is a software solution; hardware is not applicable and shall be procured separately | Established solution already deployed across multiple buildings |
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