Building type: Student accommodation
CASE STUDY:
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1,379 Vicki Thermostats Installed to Improve Energy Efficiency in Student Accommodation
Our client
Client Name: Utopi for Anonymous Client
Location: UK
Building parameters: 2 Buildings, 30 floors, 578 rooms
Product(s) implemented:
1379 Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostats
Utopi platform
Partner: Utopi
“With the Vicki Smart Thermostats, we were able to optimise energy controls for our clients and help them reduce their utility costs.”
Partner Company
About Utopi
Building performance made simple. Utopi simplify the complexities of data acquisition and ESG reporting to decarbonise the multi-tenant real estate sector, for the benefit of people, planet, and profit. Whether it be Performance Reporting, Automated Temperature Control or Empowering Residents to change their behaviours, Utopi offer an Impact Toolkit that will suit your requirement. New Build or Retrofit, we have a validated 9x ROI.
Challenges
А Purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) was a two-building complex equipped with radiators that required optimization to reduce energy waste. The two buildings, which have 578 rooms, needed precise room-by-room temperature control and optimization of the gas consumption for the radiators. Energy was being wasted due to unregulated ventilation, heating of unoccupied spaces, and other inefficiencies. PBSA was searching for a solution that didn’t require extensive renovation yet offered rapid retrofitting.
Solution
The energy project carried out by Utopi was rolled out in March 2024 and consisted of 1379 Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostats that were installed in each room in order to control the temperature according to the individual needs of the occupants. The Vicki radiator thermostats together with the Utopi Platform that was used allowed schedule creation, maintained stable temperature levels, and were used based on the occupancy of the rooms and the needs of the inhabitants. A schedule was applied where the temperature was set to a maximum of 23 degrees with automatic step downs to 18 degrees after 24 hours and 7 degrees after 36 hours. The overheated rooms in the first building dropped from 12% to 3% and in the other building from 61% to 33%, achieving temperature reduction of 75% accordingly in the first building and 46% in the second building.
All the implemented innovations resulted in improved the building's carbon footprint, simplified sustainability reporting, and achieved fats return on investment (ROI).
Site A
Site B
Results
Up to 35%
reduction of the heating costs
Open protocol
no vendor lock-in
99% compatibility
with standard radiators
Open-windows
detection
Products in this case study
Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostat
Vicki LoRaWAN® is a radiator thermostatic valve fully compliant with the LoRaWAN standard. It is the perfect choice for large-scale projects as it offers amazing battery life, RF performance, and no maintenance for years as well as functionalities such as child lock, detection of opened windows, and much more.
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MClimate Open/Close Sensor LoRaWAN® is a device detecting the event of opening or closing windows, doors, cabinets and more. It features long battery life, LED, temperature sensor and a button that triggers an uplink. The device sends an uplink for every event of opening/closing and keeps an internal counter of the total number of events.
MClimate HT Sensor LoRaWAN®
MClimate HT sensor is a fully LoRaWAN®-compliant device with surprising battery life time - up to 10 years! If you need to track temperature and humidity in your building, then HT will not miss a reading and will make sure you have enough data to analyse and improve upon.
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