Sensor Intelligence for smart buildings
Stop paying for the energy your buildings are quietly wasting.
A 4% silent drift across a 40-building portfolio is a six-figure cost — and most operators catch it months later, on the invoice. FrostLogic Explore reads the BMS, meters, and sensors you already have, and hands your team a short, ranked list of what's costing you money and exactly what to do about it. Grounded in your data. Nothing invented.
Three costs you can't see — until they've already landed
The real bottleneck
It's not sensors. It's the decisions you can't make from them.
Modern commercial real estate generates more telemetry per hour than a 1995 power station did in a year. The instinct, when you see that flood, is to buy more dashboards. It is exactly the wrong move. The bottleneck is no longer measurement. It is the act of deciding — calmly, with confidence — what each signal means and what to do about it.
Too much data.
A 40-building portfolio commonly produces 50 000+ time-series points an hour. No human operator can read that. A dashboard that shows all of it is doing the operator a disservice: the signal-to-noise ratio of "everything green" is zero, and the buzzer of "everything alarming" is ignored within a week.
Not enough trust.
Sensors drift. They get stuck. They go offline silently. They contradict their neighbours. A model trained on bad inputs produces confident, wrong answers — the kind of wrong that's expensive specifically because it looks right.
No clear next action.
Most platforms show what is happening. Operators need to know what to do next, in what order, and why. The right interface is not a dashboard. It is a queue — twenty items, prioritised, each with a clear suggested action. The dashboard is the question. The queue is the answer.
A modern building has more than enough data. It is short on decisions per kilobyte. Sensor Intelligence is the layer that raises that ratio.
What Explore does
From raw telemetry to ranked actions.
One platform. Three jobs. All grounded in the data you already have — here's what each looks like in the product.
See what your sensors are hiding.
Six detection methods score and rank every anomaly into one prioritised inbox — twenty items, not two thousand alarms. Critical drift surfaces before it becomes a callout, each entry carrying a confidence score and a suggested next action.
- Severity- and confidence-ranked, not chronological.
- One queue across every building in the portfolio.
Insights Hub — AI-investigated issues, ranked by severity and confidence.
Plan with confidence.
Multi-horizon forecasts with explicit confidence bands, drawn straight onto the live sensor trend. Wider band, less certainty — so your team sees at a glance whether to act on a number or watch it. What-if simulation lets you test any operational change before you commit.
- Forecast horizons from 24 hours to 90 days.
- Detected deviations flagged directly on the curve.
Live trend with forecast and upper / lower confidence bounds past “Now”.
Prove compliance, continuously.
Live evidence for BREEAM, LEED and Nordic Swan — collected from the sensors you already have and scored continuously against thresholds. No annual reconstruction, no audit-week scramble. When the assessor asks, the report is one click away.
- Certification score tracked in real time, not at audit.
- Every criterion mapped to the sensors that evidence it.
LEED v5 O+M — live certification score, Arc performance, and status breakdown.
Pattern-based AI
Four kinds of reasoning, one engine.
No single technique survives contact with a real building. The Frostdynamics™ engine layers four — each catching the failure modes of the others — into a single decision pipeline.
Detection from distribution.
Z-scores, seasonal decomposition, change-point detection. Cheap, fast, and correct on the obvious cases — a step change, a regime shift, a clear outlier. Wrong on the cases that hide in the noise. That's why we don't stop here.
Constraints from thermodynamics.
A heat-mass-energy balance model cross-checks every raw signal against what physics actually allows. If supply-air temperature claims to have moved 4°C in 30 seconds with no input, physics says no — and the platform trusts physics over the probe.
Cause, not symptom.
Causal filtering distinguishes the one upstream change that just happened from the twelve downstream signals it inevitably moves. The operator sees one ticket — the root cause — not a storm of alerts about its echo.
Baselines that move with you.
Site-specific learned baselines update as occupancy patterns shift, tenants change, equipment ages. They learn the building you have now. They never override the physics — that's the whole point of layering.
Each method has a known failure mode. The engine plays them against each other so the failure modes don't compound — they cancel.
Anomaly detection
Six methods. One prioritised queue. One lifecycle.
A traditional BMS fires every alarm at the same weight. Within weeks, operators learn to mute the buzzer — and real faults disappear into the noise. The prioritised queue inverts the model: every anomaly is scored, classified, and dropped into a single ranked list. Twenty items, not two thousand. Each one carries a suggested action and a clear "why".
Forecasting & AI reasoning
Forecasts you can interrogate.
A forecast is only useful if the operator believes it. Belief comes from two things: a confidence band that tells the truth about uncertainty, and a reasoning layer that can answer "why this number, not that one?" in language the operator already uses.
Multi-horizon, with honest uncertainty.
Forecasts run at four horizons by default — 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 90 days — each with an explicit confidence band. Wider band, less certainty: the operator can see at a glance whether to act on a number or watch it.
Conversational reasoning, grounded.
Ask the engine a question in plain language. Get an answer grounded in your telemetry, with the underlying metrics linked. Nothing is invented — if the data isn't there, the system says so. This is the discipline most building AI lacks: it's the difference between a useful assistant and a confident liar.
- Every answer cites the sensors and time-ranges that produced it.
- If a required signal is missing, drifted, or stale, the system raises it before answering.
- Conversational history is replayable for audit.
Compliance & ESG
Compliance that runs on real data, not quarterly audits.
Explore maps your sensors to certification criteria and watches them continuously. Evidence is collected as it happens, not reconstructed once a year. Breaches alert in real time. Auditors get an export, not a scramble.
Nordic Swan today. BREEAM, LEED, and EU-aligned frameworks on the same foundation.
Industries served
Sensor Intelligence, mapped to your sector.
Smart Buildings & Facilities
HVAC, anomaly, comfort, compliance.
ExploreEnergy & Utilities
Grid anomalies, demand forecasting.
ExploreManufacturing & Heavy Industry
Process telemetry, predictive maintenance.
ExploreHealthcare & Life Sciences
Critical-equipment monitoring and compliance.
ExplorePublic Sector & Infrastructure
Multi-site portfolios under one decision layer.
ExploreLogistics & Supply Chain
Environmental and fleet telemetry.
ExploreDeployment · Security · Data residency
Two ways to run it. Your choice on residency.
Enterprise — customer-hosted
Runs in your Kubernetes cluster or private cloud. Your infra, your SLAs, your governance. You own data and trained models.
Managed SaaS
Hosted by us on Hetzner's EU-based, ISO 27001 certified data centres. GDPR-native. Fast onboarding, no infra setup on your side.
Grounded by design
No PII — building and operational sensor data only. Grounded inference, deterministic guardrails. No vendor lock-in.
Resources
Field-tested perspectives.
Why this year, not next
A worse year to wait than the last one.
Sensor intelligence has been quietly cheap-to-deploy for a while. The reason operators are landing it now is that the cost of not deploying it has stopped being abstract.
CSRD has teeth now.
Continuous-measurement disclosure isn't a future requirement anymore — it's a current one. Buildings that can't produce continuous evidence are filing weaker reports, and stakeholders are reading them more carefully every quarter.
Margin compression on operations.
Energy is no longer a back-of-budget line item. A 4% silent drift in a 40-building portfolio is a six-figure annual cost, not a footnote. Catching it on day three instead of month six is the difference between a service ticket and a budget meeting.
Thresholds are tightening.
BREEAM In-Use, LEED O+M, Nordic Swan — every framework has moved toward continuous-evidence weighting in the past two recertification cycles. Annual-sample evidence still works, but it scores worse than it used to. That gap will not narrow.
See what your building data is telling you.
Book a 20-minute demo. We'll connect to a sample of your data and show you what Explore surfaces — live.
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