How Smart Flooring Lowers Your Energy Bill by 35%

Meet Chuck.

Chuck owns and operates a commercial office building.

Chuck’s building has multiple climate-controlled zones (like conference rooms and public areas).

Today his HVAC system operates as though each of those zones are fully occupied, even though over 90% of the time they are not.

This means that all throughout the day, the HVAC system is using significantly more energy than it needs to for heating and cooling.

This creates a big problem for Chuck.

He’s spending over $340,000 per year on non- fixed operating expenses and his energy costs for his HVAC system is nearly $93,000 of that.

We help Chuck by taking that $93,000 and cutting it by over 1/3rd to $60,000.

With Scanalytics, Chuck and his building operate a lot smarter.

Our floor sensors are installed directly on top of or underneath his existing flooring, and they measure important space utilization metrics like zone occupancy.

That data is automatically sent to his HVAC system using his existing infrastructure, and his building now has all the critical information that it needs to intelligently control heating and cooling based on exactly how many people are in each zone.

Chuck saves money every month on energy costs while helping decarbonize the built environment

There are millions of buildings like Chuck’s with billions of square feet of space facing the same energy-to-occupancy mismatch.

Today we get into these buildings by partnering directly with the flooring manufacturers that have existing relationships with the owners and operators of billions of square feet of existing (retrofit) and new construction space.

In the future we will capture even more of these buildings by leveraging our existing relationship with the US Department of Energy.

Given our sensors have demonstrated significant energy reduction (up to 35% annually), we have a clear path toward inclusion in key sustainability related programs like the Infrastructure Bill. This will further subsidize adoption while providing certifications for buildings that utilize our technology to reduce emissions.

Chuck is now not only saving money, but he can also leverage the technology for a green building certification and increase his leasing rates.

Now that Chuck is using Scanalytics to measure high resolution building usage, he has access to a growing marketplace of software applications that use the same floor sensor data as the energy application to solve other building challenges he faces like optimizing cleaning schedules and improving security.