1º is costing you dearly

Here's a shocking piece of information that even blew me away when I learned it. A single degree of temperature inside a heated building, the difference between, for example, 72.3 and 73.3, equates to almost 10% of the building's energy usage.

And why is this so important? It's so important because your building is definitely running at the wrong temperature.

There are a few different reasons.

Why are most buildings too hot during winter?

The first reason is, most buildings have no idea what the temperature is inside the building. So if you don't know what the temperature is inside, you're almost always going to overshoot with heating.

Nobody wants complaints about being cold. Therefore, what ends up happening is we always turn the system up until nobody complains, and then the building is vastly overheated.

Feeling "warm" is relative.

But Lee, "My building actually has some form of temperature sensor. So I know that it's running at the right temperature. 74 degrees."

Here's the crazy thing. There is no fixed temperature that actually makes people consistently feel warm.

In fact, our data science team has looked at over 7,500 buildings where Runwise is installed, and has looked at the number of complaints versus the temperature indoors. The temperature that makes people feel comfortable changes not only based on the time of day, but it actually changes based on the time of year.

Let me give you an example When it's first starting to get cold out, have you ever noticed that it gets down to like 50 degrees and, it's really not that cold yet, but you're freezing?

On the flip side, in the spring, after a freezing cold winter, it hits 50 degrees and it's like - I could be outside in my bathing suit.

What's even crazier is that our perception of what's comfortable inside changes with the temperature outside. So somebody might feel super comfortable at 70 degrees when it's 50 degrees outside. Yet, they might need it to be 74 degrees when it's 22 degrees outside.

Smart controls help people feel consistently comfortable.

So how do we address this?

Well, if you use something like a smart control, not only do you put sensors inside, but the system will learn, based on complaints, how to adjust the temperature. Runwise smart controls even take weather forecasts into account to make sure tenants are comfortable. 

This happens not once a year, but literally every minute of the day to find the optimal temperature that not only makes people comfortable, but also saves the maximum amount of energy.

Utility companies will pay you to keep your tenants happy.

Ok, maybe that's a stretch. ;) They're not specifically paying you to keep them happy - but they do pay to have smart controls installed, which have been proven to keep tenants more comfortable, reduce complaints, and lower energy costs. You can use the form below to see if your building is eligible for a rebate from your utility company.

So if you don't know the indoor temperature, and you're not constantly having software adjust what that temperature should be, then a ton of money is literally going right out the window. In fact, it's the same window that your tenants are opening because your building is way overheated.