Energy Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence
AI-based energy optimization across an international finance portfolio.
Industry: Banking and Finance Organization: International finance institute Scope: 14 buildings, with a planned rollout to more than 100 Year: 2024
At a Glance
Energy savings
27% in the first three months
Proof of concept
Up to 25% reduction in one building
Buildings optimized
14, with expansion planned
Data foundation
Semantic harmonization across heterogeneous BMS
Overview
An international finance institute wanted to reduce operating costs and improve sustainability ratings across an existing building portfolio. BuildingPro Suites connects heterogeneous building-management systems, establishes transparent consumption baselines, and provides the structured data required by cloud-based AI optimization.
From Monitoring to Optimization
Monitoring first made consumption patterns and improvement potential visible. A digital twin was then created for each building to model energy flows using historical consumption, current and historical weather, and occupancy data.
The AI identifies inefficient operation and calculates optimized target values, which are returned to the building-management systems. This turns portfolio analytics into active operational improvement rather than reporting alone.
Semantic Data Foundation
The existing BMS landscape contained different systems, versions, and data structures. BuildingPro Suites organizes, tags, and translates incoming data into an ontological semantic model. This consistent foundation allows optimization methods to be applied across buildings without treating every datapoint as an isolated custom integration.
Scaling and Resilience
The project showed that data quality and relevance matter more than collecting the maximum possible number of points. Depending on the building, AI models may use fewer than 1,000 or as many as 15,000 datapoints. Containerized services, security checks, and store-and-forward communication support a secure rollout toward more than 100 buildings while preserving an audit trail during interruptions.
The result was 27% total energy savings during the first three months of operation, following a proof of concept that achieved up to 25% savings in one building.
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