El proyecto en detalle
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¿Qué problema se ha resuelto?
Public-sector buildings burn far more energy than they need to, and the sector cannot fix it because it cannot see it. Annual inspections capture a single moment. Building management systems, where they exist at all, are expensive, complex and viable only on large modern sites. Most schools and most social housing have neither.
The result is chronic, invisible waste: overheated rooms, heating running in empty spaces, plant stuck in permanent override, and faults that persist for months because nobody was told. Alongside the carbon cost sits a human one — the same blindness produces cold homes, damp and mould.
But the deeper problem is not a shortage of data. It is the gap between data and action. Estates teams are stretched to breaking, so another feed of readings creates work rather than removing it. This is why the last decade of building-monitoring products has moved the needle so little: waste continues not because it is undetected, but because detection was where the product stopped.
¿Cómo se resuelve?
Planetic is a six-stage pipeline running from physical measurement to physical change.
1. SENSE. Battery LoRaWAN sensors measure temperature, humidity, CO2, occupancy, damp and energy — Milesight, ELSYS, Wavetrend and Eastron devices among others. Wireless, cheap and minutes to fit, so a whole estate can be covered without a capital project.
2. CARRY. LoRaWAN gateways and a network server move readings off site at long range and very low power. This is essential in thick-walled, hard-to-wire public buildings where WiFi and wired BMS fail.
3. INGEST. Cloud webhooks and payload decoders normalise many device types into a single data model.
4. CONTEXT. This is the core of the invention. Each reading is interpreted against the standard governing that specific space, with room type, building type and regulation resolved together. 19°C means one thing in a classroom, another in a care-home bedroom, another in a warehouse. Raw telemetry becomes a judgement.
5. ORCHESTRATION. A breach generates a decision, not an alert. Rules determine what must happen, who owns it and how urgent it is, with AI judgement extending this next.
6. ACTION. Where we hold control, the platform acts directly on consumption: smart radiator valves and boiler controls throttle heat in spaces that are empty or already warm, and energy meters verify the result. Where a human is required, the task is pushed into the team's existing tools and chased to closure. Every step is logged, so the compliance evidence assembles itself.
The energy module maps onto SECR, ESOS and Part L, so the carbon work and the regulatory work become the same work — and the same sensors simultaneously serve damp and mould, air quality, thermal comfort, legionella, occupancy and leak detection.
¿Quiénes son los clientes potenciales?
Planetic is pre-revenue, and we would rather say so plainly than dress a pilot up as a customer.
What is real is the technology. The platform is live in production, not prototyped: the full pipeline — sense, carry, ingest, context, orchestration, action — is built and running. The hardware store trades at planetic.io/shop with a published catalogue of devices, backed by a supply chain already in place through Alliot for hardware and LORIOT for network. Pricing is set and tested: £25 per building per month, plus £2.50 per device per month, plus a one-off floorplan digitisation fee. Seven compliance systems are specified and priced.
What we do not yet have is paying buildings. We are at the point where the technology is proven and the commercial model is not.
Our route to first revenue is the First Article: one building delivered as a full production install with written acceptance criteria and setup at half price, converting to estate-wide rollout on acceptance. This deliberately removes the procurement risk that stalls public-sector estates.
The demand behind it is regulatory rather than discretionary. Awaab's Law, ACOP L8, HSG274, SECR, ESOS, Part L and BB101 all compel spend that estates cannot avoid. We expect the first buildings to convert on compliance obligation, and to deliver the carbon reduction alongside it — which is precisely the mechanism we believe makes this scalable rather than dependent on green budgets that do not exist.
¿En qué se diferencia esta solución?
WE ACT ON CONSUMPTION; EVERYONE ELSE REPORTS IT. Valve and boiler control mean the platform reduces energy directly, and metering proves it. Competitors end at a dashboard, which is the difference between knowing about waste and removing it.
CONTEXT, NOT THRESHOLDS. The right standard is applied to the right space automatically — BB101, TM52, HHSRS, ACOP L8 — with no manual rule-writing room by room. This is what makes deployment at estate scale possible at all.
SEVEN COMPLIANCE REGIMES, ONE DEPLOYMENT. Energy, damp and mould, air quality, thermal comfort, legionella, occupancy and leak detection all run on the same sensors and the same platform. Rivals sell one silo per regulation.
WE FIT THE ESTATE'S EXISTING TOOLS. Tasks land in Microsoft 365, Teams, ServiceNow, Jira or the CAFM system already in use. There is no new system for staff to learn, which is the single biggest cause of failed deployments in this sector.
PRICED FOR THE BUILDINGS THAT NEED IT MOST. £25 per building per month plus £2.50 per device per month, with no capital project. That puts continuous monitoring and control within reach of primary schools and housing blocks, which is precisely where waste is worst and budgets are thinnest.
CARBON AND COMPLIANCE ARE THE SAME SPEND. Estates buy because legislation compels them, and the energy savings arrive with it. That dissolves the problem which has stalled public-estate decarbonisation for a decade: Planetic does not need its own business case.
