Plugs into what you have
Existing meters, BMS and SCADA stay where they are. Volts connects to them, retrofits the rest, and starts reading on day one.
Protect NOI floor by floor.
Recover tenant costs from verified readings, expose the floors and systems driving variance, and turn every costly exception into work with an owner and a deadline.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS RUNNING COMPLEX BUILDINGS
RECOVERABLE COSTS
Recover every fair charge without starting a dispute.
Connect each floor and tenant to the readings, lease dates and allocation rules behind their share. Finance closes faster, tenants see the evidence and owners stop absorbing unexplained cost.
- Separate tenant, common-area, vacant-floor and landlord consumption
- Build each charge from the agreed meter and allocation basis
- Answer a challenge with the reading and calculation - not another spreadsheet
NO RIP-AND-REPLACE
Standardise control across the buildings you already own.
Keep the useful meters and BMS. Volts connects them, fills the missing points and gives the operations team one way to schedule, monitor and respond across mixed building stock.
- Run HVAC and lighting schedules by zone, season and actual operating hours
- Detect after-hours load, leaks and threshold breaches before the monthly bill
- Route safe actions through the permissions and approvals set for each site
FOR THE OWNER
See where NOI is leaking before the quarter closes.
Give asset management one view of non-recoverable cost, service-charge variance, comfort risk and open action - so operational noise becomes a decision about income, retention and value.
- Quantify the costs still carried by the owner after tenant recovery
- Compare buildings and floors on the same normalised performance basis
- Keep meter-level evidence ready for leasing, refinancing, reporting and sale diligence
ALWAYS WATCHING
Exceptions that reach the person who can fix them.
Volts watches nights, weekends and low-occupancy periods when waste is easiest to miss. Each finding arrives with the affected floor, likely cause, cost signal and next action.
- Flag floors and systems that fail to switch off after people leave
- Explain unusual month-on-month cost with the readings used in the answer
- Create or propose the next task inside the permissions set by your team
WHY VOLTS
Keep the building. Connect the operating decisions.
Volts sits above the usable systems already on site and connects their readings to money, responsibility and action. The portfolio gains one operating model without one forced hardware stack.
From meter to invoice
The same platform that reads the meter allocates the cost and issues the tenant invoice. No exports, no spreadsheet in between.
Savings you can audit
Weather-normalised baselines show what changed because of you, not the weather. The numbers hold up in an ISO 50001 audit.
What this means in practice
- Connect existing meters, BMS and finance tools where interfaces are available.
- Retrofit only the missing measurement and control points.
- Verify outcomes against a documented baseline and retain the action trail.
FAQ
Commercial buildings without the usual blind spots.
Can Volts make our service charge easier to defend?
Yes. Per-floor and per-tenant readings connect each recoverable line to its source. A dispute becomes a review of the meter, period and rule instead of an argument about an estimate.
If tenants pay utilities, where does the owner benefit?
Owners still carry vacant-space consumption, non-recoverable cost and amounts above contractual caps. Lowering those costs supports NOI, while clearer service charges and stable comfort strengthen leasing and renewal conversations.
Can a tenant use Volts without owning the building?
Yes, where installation and data access are authorised. In a Sofia office building, six tenant-side meters identified a recurring billing mismatch and gave both parties evidence to correct the charges.
Can HVAC and lighting follow actual occupancy?
Volts can apply schedules by zone and operating period, then flag consumption outside them. Occupancy-led control depends on the interfaces the building already has - BMS, relays or Modbus - and is scoped during the survey.
Do we have to replace the existing BMS?
No. Where the BMS exposes a supported interface, Volts uses it as an input and control layer. Missing meters or relays can be added selectively rather than turning the deployment into a full replacement project.
What happens in a partly vacant building?
Vacant floors remain visible as their own cost responsibility. Schedules can follow the reduced operating plan, while allocation rules keep their consumption out of occupied tenants’ charges unless the lease says otherwise.
Can we compare buildings with different weather and occupancy?
Volts can normalise performance for weather and occupancy, so asset teams can distinguish an operational change from a colder month or a fuller building.
How quickly can the first office start sending data?
After a site survey confirms the usable meters, interfaces and retrofit gaps, the first office goes live on an agreed scope.
More property types
One operating model across mixed portfolios.
Retail Parks, Chains & Malls
Make every shared charge traceable.
Hotels & Hospitality
Protect guest comfort without paying for empty rooms.
Logistics & Warehousing
Match heat and light to each shift.
Industrial Sites
Act before a short peak sets the charge.
Residential & Co-living
Replace meter rounds with transparent allocation.
Find the cost your office should not be carrying.
Bring one building, a recent utility bill and the systems already on site. An engineer will map what Volts can read, what needs retrofitting and where the first measurable outcome sits.