What is HVAC Optimization as a Service?

Zoom. Spotify. Netflix. These are some of the most popular SaaS, or Software as a Service, companies.

But have you ever heard of HVAC Optimization as a Service?

HVAC optimization is the process of enhancing the efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.

When you add the “as a Service” piece, you get a subscription-based model where a company regularly manages and improves your HVAC systems performance.

Let’s put it all together.

HVAC Optimization as a Service is an advanced software solution that goes beyond monitoring and analytics to deliver fully automated, real-time control and management of HVAC systems with remote and on-site support.

Optimizing HVAC systems can involve various strategies and technologies that improve how HVAC systems operate daily.

It includes real-time monitoring, automated control adjustments, predictive maintenance, and efficiency improvements, typically using advanced technology and data analytics. This service aims to maximize energy savings, comfort, and system longevity without requiring significant upfront investment from the building owner.

Automated control adjustments are an especially critical component of optimizing HVAC systems. These adjustments combine real-time data, like outdoor weather and occupant demand, with advanced algorithms to create a more efficient and flexible HVAC system.

This means that the HVAC system only uses energy when and where it’s needed, avoiding unnecessary heating or cooling.

Automated control adjustments result in higher energy efficiency, better operational performance, and improved maintenance. Let’s look into this in more detail:

Energy Efficiency: Reducing energy consumption by adjusting performance parameters, upgrading components, or adding more efficient technologies, like variable frequency drives (VFDs).

Performance: Ensuring that HVAC systems operate efficiently and supply meets demand by calibrating controls and adjusting speeds.

Monitoring & Maintenance: Using monitoring systems to detect and resolve issues promptly. Continuous monitoring of system performance helps to track equipment efficiency and effectiveness over time. Learn more about Proactive Maintenance here.

HVAC Optimization as a Service is a new category of energy management primed to disrupt the built environment, and there’s one company leading the way.

How Can Parity Help? Meet Optimizer.

At Parity, we know running a building is demanding, so we take the daily management of HVAC performance off your shoulders and do the heavy lifting ourselves.

Our HVAC Optimization approach eliminates the need for constant manual adjustments and allows building managers to achieve maximum energy efficiency while reducing their staff’s workload.

How do we do it? Meet Optimizer.

Optimizer is our HVAC Optimization as a Service solution that micromanages your HVAC systems 24/7/365. It’s designed to lower your utility costs, guaranteed.

Optimizer is made up of our control optimization software, an analytics and monitoring dashboard called Parity Insights (Pi), automated demand response curtailment, and support from our team of remote and onsite HVAC experts.

Our control optimization software is a key piece of Optimizer and our secret sauce. It’s what enables us to save our clients 5 and 6 figures on their utility bills.

Without our software, there would be a crucial missing piece in maximizing the efficiency of HVAC systems and hardware components, like VFDs. Our control optimization software makes these systems “smart”, whether or not you have a BMS.

Here’s how it works:

1. We connect a building’s local controls and/or a BMS to the Parity cloud. We read operational and equipment data and store it in our database.
2. Parity’s Machine Learning (ML) algorithms use this data to redesign HVAC operations based on outdoor weather, occupant demand, and various building/system characteristics.
3. Then, optimized control adjustments are automatically streamed to your building in real-time. This minimizes energy consumption and reduces your staff’s workload while maintaining a comfortable building climate for your occupants.

Our control optimization software actions are autonomously repeated and monitored for variations to guarantee performance. That’s right. We guarantee performance which means if we fall short of our projected energy savings, we cut your building a check for the difference.

Plus, using less energy means lower CO2 emissions, which can help your building lower its exposure to LL97 fines.

When we micromanage your HVAC systems, it frees up building staff’s time, reduces service calls, improves energy efficiency, maximizes demand response revenue, and most importantly, saves your building money.

HVAC Optimization Summary

HVAC Optimization as a Service is an advanced software solution that goes beyond monitoring and analytics to deliver fully automated, real-time control and management of HVAC systems with remote and on-site support.

A key piece of optimizing HVAC systems involves automated control adjustments. Automated control adjustments combine real-time data, like outdoor weather and occupant demand, with advanced algorithms to create a more efficient and flexible HVAC system.

Parity’s Optimizer service eliminates the need for constant manual adjustments and allows building staff to achieve maximum energy efficiency while reducing their workload.

Are you ready to learn more about Parity Optimizer service or how we can help your building, email contact@paritygo.com or call 1-833-372-7489. You can also visit our website to learn more about how we reduce utility bills in multifamily residential buildings and hotels.