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Energy and Utilities: Energy Monitoring Software in BuildOT One

The Energy and Utilities module in BuildOT One is energy monitoring software. It shows how much electricity, water, chilled water and BTU energy your buildings use, what it costs and the carbon it creates. It turns meter data into dashboards, benchmarks and reports for single buildings and whole portfolios.

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BuildOT One Energy & Utilities screen showing portfolio energy, water, chilled water and emissions KPI cards, asset counters
Portfolio energy overview in BuildOT One
Module
Energy and Utilities
Part of
BuildOT One
What it does
Monitors consumption, cost and carbon, and benchmarks buildings
Data sources
Wireless smart meters and submeters (Class 0.5S), IoT telemetry, utility billing and tariff data
Integrations
BACnet, Modbus and MQTT
Typical users
Energy managers, facility managers, asset managers and finance teams
Energy Eye wireless meters sending electricity, water and chilled water data to BuildOT One

What Energy and Utilities does

  • Tracks consumption.See electricity, water, chilled water and BTU use by site, building and asset, live and historical.
  • Explains cost.Apply tariff structures and allocate cost across tenants, cost centres and portfolios.
  • Converts energy to carbon.Use configurable emission factors to report Scope 1 and 2 carbon.
  • Benchmarks buildings.Compare sites with intensity metrics such as kWh/m2 and spot the underperformers.
  • Links energy to equipment.Abnormal energy behaviour is tied to asset performance, which surfaces inefficiency and possible failures early.
  • Finds load patterns.Time profiles show peaks and waste by hour, day and season, which matters in Gulf buildings where cooling can reach about 70% of peak load (PwC Strategy&).

Energy monitoring software features

  • Portfolio, building and meter-level dashboards
  • Heatmaps, trend charts and drill-down analysis
  • Tariff and billing intelligence
  • Carbon tracking with configurable emission factors
  • Virtual meters that combine physical meters into zones or systems
  • Forecasting and trend analysis
  • Meter quality and diagnostics views
  • Executive overview of energy, cost, carbon and performance across all assets
  • Building-level analysis of consumption, anomalies and efficiency metrics
  • Savings checks for energy conservation measures through Measurement and Verification
  • Wireless metering that costs about 30% less than an RS485 retrofit (beachfront hotel in Ajman)

How does energy monitoring work in BuildOT One?

Wireless meters send readings over LoRaWAN (EU868) to BuildOT One, which shows live and historical use by building, floor and tenant. Because cooling can reach about 70% of peak load in Gulf buildings, hourly load profiles show where waste hides. At the Ajman hotel, wireless meters cost about 30% less than an RS485 retrofit.

Who uses it

Energy managers use it to find waste. Facility managers use it to explain consumption to owners. Asset managers and finance teams use it to allocate costs and compare buildings. Sustainability teams use it as the data source for carbon reporting.

BuildOT One Solar Insights screen showing solar and grid KPI cards with daily solar generation and daily grid consumption bar
Solar generation and grid consumption in BuildOT One
Energy and Utilities: Energy Monitoring Software in BuildOT One, Who uses it
Energy and Utilities: Energy Monitoring Software in BuildOT One, Who uses it

Energy, water and chilled water dashboards

These views come from a live BuildOT One portfolio in the UAE. Site names are hidden to protect the client.

Electricity by site and by meter

See each site’s share of portfolio energy, rank sites against the average and find the meters that use the most.

BuildOT One Energy and Utilities screen showing portfolio energy consumption in kWh with a sites share donut chart and every
Energy consumption by site across a portfolio
BuildOT One energy benchmark ranking sites by monthly kWh against the portfolio average, with sites above average in red and
Sites ranked against the portfolio average
BuildOT One Top Consumers view showing the eight LV panel meters with the highest share of monthly electricity use, with kWh
Top consumers by meter

Water and chilled water

The same views cover water in cubic metres and chilled water in kBTU, with a daily chart for every meter.

BuildOT One portfolio water consumption in cubic metres with a sites share donut chart and sites ranked by share of total wat
Water consumption by site
BuildOT One portfolio chilled water consumption in kBTU with a sites share donut chart and sites ranked by share of total coo
Chilled water consumption by site
BuildOT One daily water consumption bar chart in cubic metres for each day of the month, read from building water meters.
Daily water consumption
BuildOT One daily chilled water consumption bar chart in kBTU for each day of the month, read from BTU meters.
Daily chilled water consumption

Works with

Frequently asked questions

What meters does the module use?
It works with wireless smart meters and submeters, including Class 0.5S meters, plus data from existing meters and utility billing sources.
Can it replace manual meter reading?
Yes, for connected meters. Readings flow into BuildOT One automatically, and manual inputs can be added where a meter is not connected.
Does it cover carbon?
It converts energy use into Scope 1 and 2 carbon using configurable emission factors, which supports data collection for ESG frameworks.
Can it work with meters I already have?
Yes. It connects over BACnet, Modbus and MQTT, so existing meters can feed the same dashboards as new wireless ones.

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Energy savings estimator

A quick estimate from results on real UAE buildings. Your building is different, so treat it as a starting range and ask us for a site survey.

Estimated yearly energy saving

Based on the 10 to 15% energy saving measured at a private school in Dubai with wireless AC control.

Cooling is about 70% of peak load in Gulf buildings, so most of this saving comes from HVAC.

Estimated cost of a wireless system instead

A wireless system typically costs 30 to 40% less than a wired BMS.

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See your energy data in one place

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