Building type: Residential Building
CASE STUDY:
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Energy Efficiency Project in a Spanish Residential Building
Our client
Location: Valladolid, Spain
Building parameters: 1 Building, 14 floors, 56 apartments, built in 1966Â
Product(s) implemented:
242 Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostats
MClimate Enterprise
Wattsense Bridge Gateway
Veolia's Building Management System (BMS)
“The ease of installation and smart control that Vicki Smart Radiator Thermostat enabled us not only enhanced the energy efficiency in a building where renovations are challenging to accomplish, but we are already seeing significant improvements in heating control and overall energy savings!”
Daniel RodrĂguez, Ofenval
About INDELCASA/OFENVAL
Dedicated to customer satisfaction, the company aims to deliver heating and air conditioning solutions tailored to your buildings’ specific needs. With over 1,000 installations, they prioritize quality and safety in every project, ensuring effective results
Challenges
The residential building in Valladolid, with 14 floors and four dwellings per floor, was originally constructed in the 1960s, renovated in 2018, serves as one of the five pilot sites in the EU BuildON project aimed at delivering energy efficiency solutions that support decarbonization efforts. The apartments in the building, offered in two sizes (72sqm and 92sqm), each with a kitchen, living room, two or three bedrooms, and one bathroom, required centralized monitoring and room-by-room control of the indoor temperatures. Digitalizing the building's energy management system became necessary due to the lack of an individual approach, which led to high energy costs and inefficiencies - heating rooms excessively, even when unoccupied. The building needed a solution that focused on energy management without time-intensive major building renovations.
Solution
In order to decrease energy expenses and maintain a comfortable indoor climate for the occupants, the residential building required precise data and control over each room temperature. The property integrated the Veolia Building Management System with the Wattsense Bridge Gateway, which enables protocol conversion, facilitating communication through BACnet, Modbus, or MQTT, allowing the 242 MClimate Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostats to be seamlessly integrated with the Veolia system. The MClimate devices together with the MClimate Enterprise allowed monitoring and precise control over the temperature on a room-by-room basis as well as schedule creation and open windows detection that led to significant energy savings of up to 35% in the first heating season. The Vicki Thermostats utilize the LoRaWAN® protocol and have firmware updates over the air (FUOTA) along with replaceable batteries that last up to 10 years. Together with the MClimate Enterprise IoT Platform, which features an intuitive interface, a rule engine, and a free end-user app, they provide an ideal smart solution for any building.
Results
Up to 35%
reduction of the heating costs
Real-time
and historical data
FUOTA
Firmware Update Over the Air
Open-windows
detection
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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 as functionalities such as child lock, detection of opened windows, and much more.
MClimate Enterprise
MClimate Enterprise is a buildings management platform that enables you to monitor, control and analyse all of your IoT devices form one place. With just a few clicks, you gain a complete overview of your buildings, allowing you to easily map devices in each room and track essential metrics. Get the data you need to reduce your monthly the energy costs and improve the CO2 footprint of your properties.
Recommended products
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
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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 Open/Close Sensor LoRaWAN®
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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