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A care home in Scotland, consisting of 30 fully equipped apartments, serves as a residential facility for the elderly including rooms, baths, living rooms, kitchens, along with administrative offices and common areas. The building required a centralized system for monitoring and controlling indoor temperatures on a room-by-room basis, as the lack of individual control led to high energy costs.

The key inefficiency came from heating the rooms equally, even when unoccupied. Radiator temperatures were manually adjusted, often leading to overheating, and there was no mechanism to automatically stop heating when windows were open, causing further energy waste. Additionally, the lack of real-time data made it challenging to optimize temperature settings based on residents’ needs.

Seeking a cost-effective solution, the building management wanted to improve energy efficiency without undergoing extensive renovations that would impact daily operations.