better.energy – The smart building solution for your company

Benefits

Turn your building into an intelligently networked building

The energy management platform better.energy turns your non-residential building, whether a hospital, retirement home, school, administrative or office building, into a smart building. The future-oriented and reliable better.energy – Control module regulates your radiators and fan coil units, ensuring intelligent networking and control, while the better.energy – Monitor module records and visualises heat consumption. The modern energy management system, EMS for short, follows the smart building concept and is based on the new LoRaWAN data transmission technology. This means that better.energy offers you numerous potential savings in terms of energy costs and CO₂ emissions.

Insight

better.energy turns your non-residential building into a smart building

A smart building is an intelligently networked building or building complex. In principle, all commercial and public properties such as offices, clinics, schools or hotels can become smart buildings with the smart energy management software better.energy. Networking is made possible by the Internet of Things, or IoT for short, and ensures that the better.energy IoT platform is always well-informed about all radiators and fan coils in the building as well as the current heat consumption. Thanks to IoT and LoRaWAN wireless technology, the software always knows which radiator, fan coil or fan coil unit is in operation and what the current valve position and temperature are.

LoRaWAN wireless technology

better.energy vs. building management system

While many smart building technologies and energy management solutions rely on wired IoT networks, better.energy uses battery-powered wireless thermostats and state-of-the-art LoRaWAN data transmission technology. This eliminates the need for complex building management systems, giving you more flexibility and significantly reducing the need for network and power cables as well as costs. This greatly simplifies installation in your building. In addition, identifying system faults is often more problematic and time-consuming with wired solutions. With better.energy, you can rely on the latest standard, ensure greater transparency and benefit from scalable and future-proof energy management software.

LoRaWAN

The latest wireless technology for your smart building

LoRaWAN, or Long Range Wide Area Network, is a communication protocol that was created specifically for the use of IoT applications such as better.energy. LoRaWAN thus offers a robust and flexible communication infrastructure that is energy-saving, network-independent and perfectly suited to the requirements of modern smart buildings.

Areas of application

Your LoRaWAN use case better.energy

With impressively intelligent software and reliable wireless thermostats, gateways and more, better.energy ensures that your building becomes a smart building. And all without any structural measures, thanks to state-of-the-art LoRaWAN technology. In this way, better.energy communicates securely, reliably and energy-efficiently with the hardware components of your system and the thermostats know when to set which temperature.

Scalable and progressive

The development of better.energy

What began as a simple control system for certain radiators has developed into a scalable and innovative IoT platform. By integrating better.energy into your building, you are laying the foundations for a smart building and relying on a platform with plenty of development potential. For example, it could be used to control lighting, measure electricity consumption and much more… Let us surprise you with what the future holds. But one thing is certain: there’s no end in sight to the ideas for the further development of our building automation solution!