🇳🇴Hagavik, Norway
Complete Smart Building Solution Enhancing Energy Efficiency in a Rehabilitation Center in 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
Product(s) implemented:
70 Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostats
Third-Party Solutions:
Siemens Connect Box LoRaWAN Gateway
Siemens Desigo Control Point BMS
Partner: Straume Tekniske AS, Siemens Norway
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.
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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)
Products in this case study
Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostat
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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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