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Complete Smart Building Solution Enhancing Energy Efficiency in a Rehabilitation Center in Norway

🇳🇴Hagavik, Norway

Our client

Building type: Rehabilitation Center

Client Name: Ravneberghaugen, Center for Coping and Rehabilitation

Location: Hagavik, Norway

Building parameters: 1 building, 3 floors, 1 Underfloor

Siemens is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology to transform the everyday, for everyone. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more livable, and transportation more sustainable.

Siemens is Norway's partner in the development of sustainable technologies and solutions. Through electrification, automation, and digitalization, they help ensure Norwegian competitiveness.

Founded in 2012, Straume Tekniske delivers bespoke ventilation, heat pump, and building automation systems tailored to each client’s needs. Their holistic approach reviews a building’s technical systems in full—covering design, implementation, testing, plumbing, and electrical work—to ensure seamless, energy-efficient operation. Led by seasoned experts in automation and ventilation, the team provides ongoing training, service, and maintenance for optimal performance. Straume Tekniske’s goal is to be a trusted partner, driving reduced energy consumption, enhanced indoor comfort, and a sustainable future.

Challenges

Ravneberghaugen—Norway’s first convalescent home, founded in 1899—has grown into a year-round interdisciplinary rehabilitation center under Helse Vest. With 40 patient rooms, multiple common areas, a dining hall, kitchen, gym, treatment, and activity rooms, its management needed precise control over the radiator heating to ensure a comfortable environment, control precise temperature, and cut energy costs. A full rewiring or renovation was impossible without disrupting patient care, so they sought a retrofit solution that would be non-invasive, preserve occupant comfort, and significantly boost efficiency by giving individual control of the existing radiators.

 

Solution

To reduce energy costs while maintaining a pleasant indoor climate for patients, Straume Tekniske implemented a complete smart building solution. They installed 70 Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostats on all radiators, together with a Siemens Connect Box Gateway that allowed the devices to be integrated into the Siemens Desigo Control Point BMS over BACnet. Data from the Vicki TRVs, including temperature, humidity, and valve position (On/OFF), was used to optimize room conditions by limiting temperature to ±3 °C from the average set. A functionality was added through the BMS to remotely override manual adjustments and restore devices to their programmed setpoints, ensuring consistent performance and leading to substantial energy cost reduction. During the same period, the rehabilitation center also upgraded its HVAC systems by installing seawater heat pumps and replacing electric heating and cooling batteries with waterborne ones. These, combined with MClimate’s smart thermostats, Siemens gateway, and BMS, reduced the energy costs by 30% in the first three months post-installation compared to the previous year.

Results

30% reduction

of the energy costs

10 Years

of battery life

Open protocol

no vendor lock-in

18 Months ROI

(return on investment)

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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 functionalities such as Child Lock, Detection of opened windows and much more.

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MClimate Wireless Thermostat LoRaWAN®

MClimate Wireless Thermostat is a stand-alone thermostat powered entirely by solar energy using an organic solar panel. The device features a 2.9" e-ink screen, sensor for movement (PIR), temperature and humidity sensor, LUX sensor and 3 buttons. The user can change the target temperature and see current indoor conditions. The device sends an uplink after any event as well as periodically.

MClimate Vicki Anti-vandal protective case

Protect your Vicki from tampering, vandalism and theft with our robust anti-vandal cover.

MClimate Vicki Rugged Backplate

The MClimate Vicki Rugged Backplate is a high-durability accessory designed to make Vicki ideal for use in public or high-traffic environments.
Tested against seven other commercial radiator thermostats, the Rugged Backplate outperformed them in both static load and impact resistance, based on CHARPY/IZOD ISO 179/180 and EN standards.
With carefully selected materials and a reinforced mechanical structure, the Rugged Backplate significantly enhances the durability and resilience of the Vicki TRVs.

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