🇩🇪 Multiple locations in Schwarzwald, Germany
Apartment Complex Cuts Energy Costs by 40% with Smart Heating Solution
Our client
Building type: Aparthotel Building
Client Name: Black Forest Hospitality
Partner Name: Betterspace
Location: Multiple locations in Schwarzwald, Germany
Building parameters: 18 Buildings
Product(s) implemented:
255 Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostats
“Despite the extra effort involved in setting up the technology, the installation was very, very easy, and you see the benefits immediately afterwards.”
Evert Schüle, CEO
About Betterspace
Betterspace develops smart software solutions that make buildings more energy-efficient, digital, and user-friendly.
With better.energy, users can make their non-residential buildings more energy efficient. The system automatically controls radiators and fan coil units, whether it is a hotel or office building, a clinic or care facility, or a school or other educational institution, better.energy reduces energy consumption.
The online management platform better.energy helps users manage their buildings. It allows them to keep an eye on their company, locations, devices, users, and better.energy modules, enabling the automated control of radiators and fan coil units as well as continuous monitoring of energy consumption.
Hotels also benefit from the better.guest digital guest directory. With its telephone feature, chat, push messages, green option, and ordering function, the digital assistant simplifies communication with hotel guests, helps generate additional revenue, and reduces costs.
With its intelligent software solutions, Betterspace creates digital, connected, sustainable, and efficient places.
Challenges
Since its founding in 2019, sustainability has been a core part of Stuub’s corporate philosophy, not only as a guiding principle but also as a practical approach to achieving energy efficiency. The properties of Black Forest Hospitality (BFH) are spread across the Black Forest region in Germany, encompassing 18 diverse locations, including modern apartments and traditional hotels, each with unique energy demands and history. Variations in energy sources for the heating system, construction years, and insulation standards have historically made implementing a uniform temperature management system impossible.
As a result, BFH’s technical and housekeeping teams had to dedicate significant time and travel just to manually monitor and adjust radiator heating systems. They were seeking a solution that could address three key objectives: reduce energy costs without compromising guest comfort, advance sustainability in line with corporate strategy, and simplify the management and control of the radiator systems.
Solution
In addition to renovation work focused on improved insulation, BFH chose Betterspace and implemented the better.energy platform together with 255 Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostat. This setup enabled the team to monitor and control all properties remotely, accessing precise real-time and historical data from a single, centralized platform. The system allows temperatures to be maintained on comfortable levels when guests are present, while reducing or pausing heating in empty units, effectively preventing energy waste.
The centralized control provided by better.energy also simplified remote maintenance, giving the technical staff an easy overview of TRV status, battery life, and other key functionalities. This improved workflow reduced maintenance time and costs. Scalability and fast ROI were key requirements for BFH, and the Vicki TRVs in combination with the platform delivered on both, with features like occupancy-based heating and open-window detection optimizing energy use, cutting costs, and easing staff workload, all while ensuring consistent guest comfort.
Results
40% reduction
of the heating costs
Temperature Control
remotely from better.energy
Open Windows
Detection
Supports FUOTA
Firmware Upgrade Over The Air
Products in this case study
Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostat
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