Residential care & nursing homes
Comfortable temperatures in care facilities with less energy and less effort
Intelligent control
Ensure comfort and reduce the workload for staff in retirement and nursing homes
Residents in care facilities are sensitive to heat, but at the same time there is a lack of time and resources in everyday life to manually adjust temperatures. With better.energy, you can define temperature limits, day/night profiles, and automatic reductions. The system takes over control, keeps room temperatures stable, and prevents energy losses, e.g. due to permanently high setpoints or heating with open windows. Residents can still adjust the temperature in their rooms themselves at any time. better.energy ensures greater energy efficiency without paternalism or loss of comfort.
Experience report:
How Korian is increasing energy efficiency in over 50 nursing homes and saving CO₂
Together with Betterspace and the smart IoT platform better.energy, Korian has already saved energy and CO₂ in over 50 nursing homes while increasing the comfort of residents.
Smart innovation
Room types instead of individual solutions: realistically mapping care facilities
Residents’ rooms, nursing bathrooms, staff rooms, therapy rooms, corridors, dining rooms: each zone requires different temperatures. In better.energy, you create room types and roll out rules across locations. This allows you to standardise comfort and efficiency without having to “manage” each thermostat individually. An online dashboard gives you an overview of all rooms, thermostats, and temperatures, and you can intervene remotely if necessary. All you need is an internet connection and a device, such as a laptop.
Added value and overview
Transparency for operators, management and reporting
With better.energy – Monitor, you can visualise heat consumption by location, building and zone. You can identify outliers, document the effects of measures and obtain reliable data for budget control, operator communication and sustainability reporting. As better.energy has a positive impact on both the heating bill and the carbon footprint of your building, you are also actively increasing the value of your property.
Modular and flexibly adapted
The perfect energy-saving modules for nursing homes and retirement homes
better.energy – Control:
Intelligent control of radiators and fan coils according to usage, times and rules.
better.energy – Monitor:
Measure and compare heat consumption, find outliers and visualise them.
better.integrations:
Quickly and easily connect or export data from occupancy/industry software.
Automatically and intelligently increase energy efficiency
Let us determine your savings potential in a short appointment and evaluate your options for saving energy.
Frequently asked questions
How do we avoid complaints about residents’ rooms being too cold?
Clear comfort profiles and minimum temperatures are defined for sensitive areas. In addition, time slots and rules ensure that rooms remain stable and avoid significant temperature fluctuations without permanent overheating.
Can employees and residents still regulate the temperature themselves?
Yes. Manual operation is still possible, but within defined limits. This keeps everyday life practical while reducing inefficient extremes and “continuous boost” during operation.
How do we deal with very different room types (rooms, nursing bathrooms, corridors)?
The logic works with room types. Suitable profiles and rules are stored for each room type, which you can maintain centrally and transfer to similar rooms. This saves time and increases operational stability.