vs energy dashboards
Energy dashboard: insight stops at the chart
A dashboard can show the peak. Volts connects that evidence to an approved response and measures what happened next.
Most building platforms stop at visibility. Volts closes the operational loop.
Volts connects measurement to explanation, approval, action and verification - across the meters, BMS, finance systems and workflows your buildings already depend on.
How Volts works
Every signal ends in a recorded decision.
The value is not the alert. It is the closed loop from a trustworthy reading to an approved action - and the evidence that shows whether the action changed cost, consumption or risk.
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Detect
Bring live readings from meters, sensors and existing building systems into one site model.
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Understand
Separate real exceptions from weather, operating hours, occupancy and noisy data.
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Recommend
Show the likely cause, expected impact and concrete next action beside the evidence.
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Approve
Route each consequential action to the role authorised for that site and system.
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Execute
Send the approved task, schedule or setpoint to the systems Volts is already connected to.
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Verify
Compare the result with the agreed baseline and retain the before, after, approver and timestamp.
Where Volts fits
Keep the systems. Connect the decisions between them.
Meters know consumption. A BMS knows equipment. Finance knows cost. Property systems know tenants. Volts joins those contexts so one exception can become the right decision for the right stakeholder.
| Capability | Spreadsheets & email | Energy dashboards | Classic BMS | PM / billing software | Volts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live metering across mixed vendors | – | ✓ | partial | – | ✓ |
| Loss & anomaly detection | – | ✓ | alarms only | – | ✓ |
| Cost allocation & tenant billing from real readings | manual | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Building control & automation | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| AI agents that act (with approval) | – | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Approvals & full audit trail | – | – | event log | invoices only | ✓ |
| Portfolio-wide, multi-site view | manual | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Works with existing systems (retrofit) | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
Comparison describes typical product categories, not any specific vendor. Individual products vary.
What this means in practice
- Read from supported meters, BMS, SCADA and business systems already in use.
- Add only the missing measurement, control or workflow layer.
- Carry the same evidence from operations into billing, reporting and portfolio review.
Point solutions show a slice. Volts carries the outcome.
Volts does not claim every tool is the same. It solves the handoff problem between specialised systems - the moment where an alert, reading or invoice usually loses its owner and business context.
vs classic BMS
Classic BMS: strong on equipment, weak across the portfolio
Keep the BMS for local control. Volts adds cross-site context, financial impact and workflows that extend beyond the plant room.
vs property-management software
Property software: bills the inputs it receives
Keep the tenant and ledger records. Volts makes the consumption, tariff and allocation evidence behind the charge traceable.
Protect CapEx. Recover OpEx. Prove the NOI impact.
Preserve useful infrastructure, reduce the costs the owner still carries and show which operational changes produced the result. The business case stays connected from technical action to asset outcome.
What this means in practice
- Avoid a blanket replacement programme where existing equipment can still provide reliable data or control.
- Separate recoverable tenant cost from the consumption and waste that remain with the owner.
- Report verified savings against the operating cost they came out of.
Evidence & compliance
Make every performance claim traceable to its evidence.
Keep the baseline, source readings, calculation method and approved action together. Auditors and reporting teams can inspect the same operating evidence without launching a separate data-collection project.
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ISO 50001-style savings
Weather-normalised baselines separate what your team changed from what the season did. Every verified action keeps its own before-and-after record.
EPBD & building-automation compliance
Monitoring, control and reporting workflows aligned to the building-automation obligations landlords are now being measured against.
GRESB & CSRD data
The per-site, per-meter, per-month consumption data that GRESB and CSRD reporting asks for - collected as a side effect of operating, not as a year-end project.
What this means in practice
- Normalise savings for weather and occupancy.
- Keep the source readings, calculation method and approved action on the same record.
- Produce per-site, per-meter and per-period data for external reporting.
Automated compliance reports are on the roadmap.
Bring one costly exception. Leave with the closed loop.
Show us a building, the systems already on site and one decision that currently dies in a spreadsheet or inbox. We will map how Volts detects, routes, acts and verifies it.