BEE Sense is our in-house cloud-based, real-time, integrated building management platform that collects, organizes, and analyzes a building’s indoor environmental quality (IEQ), energy, and water consumption data. This innovative platform ensures that your assets perform at their best by optimizing health, environmental sustainability, and operational efficiency.
Make sense of your data.
Website: sense.bee-inc.com
DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYTICS
Portfolio Management and Benchmarking
Manage and analyze energy KPIs and benchmarking for a growing number of buildings, sites, and facilities. BEE Sense helps to manage diverse portfolios, track performance metrics, and benchmark against industry standards to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
Flexible Data Visualization & Calculations
Understand the impact of external variables on production and consumption, and create savings models based on your data inputs.
Automated Custom Reporting
Generate detailed reports tailored to specific needs and metrics automatically. Analyze and compare your consumption and associated costs to identify where your money is spent within your organization and where energy-saving efforts must focus. Discover trends over periods and calculate your savings, with the ability to enter adjustment values for normalized analysis.
Machine-Learning Analytics
Use advanced analytics that learn from data to predict trends and model energy behavior. Our Sentinel Trends tool learns the behavior of your buildings, operations, and equipment to generate a consumption model based on 4 weeks’ worth of data, allowing you to analyze and compare actual and expected load consumption for your facilities.
COMPLIANCE AND CERTIFICATION SUPPORT
ESG Compliance & Carbon Footprinting
Manage environmental, social, and governance reporting, and calculate carbon emissions. BEE Sense provides timely insights through customizable, automated daily and monthly energy and CO2 reports.
You will be able to create bespoke utility bills for multi-tenant buildings and customers, supporting comprehensive carbon footprint analysis for Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions.
ARC Integration for LEED & WELL Certification
Facilitate LEED O+M Certification and WELL standards for air quality through seamless integration with USGBC’s Arc platform.
BEE Sense is the first building monitoring system fully integrated with Arc, enabling the transmission of energy, water, and air quality data required for these certifications.
RESET Data Provider
Enhance your building certification efforts with an official RESET data provider streaming real-time energy, water, and air quality data.
Assess the ability of your building to minimize infection potential from airborne transmission using parameters such as PM2.5 levels, temperature, humidity, and CO2 data through the RESET Viral Index calculation.
OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY AND COST MANAGEMENT
Measure, Verify, Audit
BEE Sense will help you to identify the highest energy-offending building equipment and appliances, energy-inefficient operations, and areas of waste in your facilities.
Cost-Saving Identification & Tariff Diagnostics
Analyze potential savings in energy contracts and monitor tariff impacts. Assess expected savings when negotiating new energy contracts by comparing past usage data against various tariff offers.
Utility Bill Management
Import and analyze utility bill data to accurately manage costs and track consumption. Verify values contained in utility bills, digitize them, and better understand the behavior and costs associated with peak demand rates and other charges. This comprehensive utility bill management allows for more precise budgeting and cost-saving opportunities.
Tailored Alerts & Notifications
Create alerts and be notified as soon as cost or consumption deviates from an expected pattern. Choose between alerts based on percentage increases and decreases, threshold comparisons, and power activity between time windows. BEE Sense will send a notification on your dashboard and via email or SMS, ensuring you stay informed about any anomalies in real-time.
See an example of how our state-of-the-art software can help optimize performance
HARDWARE PARTNERS
BEE Sense is and always will be a hardware agnostic platform. This is our core value and means that we are able to obtain data from any existing meter, sensor, or BMS your project may have – offering unparallel flexibility and zero added cost.
For those projects lacking smart meters, we have strategic parentships with the leading hardware suppliers in the world. These state-of-the-art devices ensure comprehensive monitoring and analysis of energy, air, water, light and sound metrics.
Energy Monitors
BEE Sense offers diverse energy metering hardware options to effectively monitor buildings of various sizes and electric supply systems.
- Scalability: Provides multi-circuit and single-circuit electric meters for efficient deployment of total metering or submetering across different building sizes.
- Adaptable Design: The meters are adaptable to different electric supply systems using split-core CTs or Rogowski coils, accommodating everything from branch circuits to bus bars.
- Direct Integration: Features powerful data output capabilities, allowing direct integration with BEE Sense servers via Ethernet or Wi-Fi, eliminating the need for additional gateways or BMS.
- Advanced Compatibility: For systems requiring more intricate control, the meters support Modbus and BACnet protocols, enabling seamless integration with BMS/BA systems
Data Points
Overall Consumption
Breakdown by area: Floors, Front-of-House (FOH), Back-of-House (BOH), Interior, Façade
Breakdown by type: HVAC, Lighting, Plug Load, Individual Appliances
Air Monitors
BEE Sense provides versatile air quality monitoring solutions to cover diverse Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) scenarios, both indoors and outdoors.
- Flexible Placement: Offers various mounting options, including wall-mounting and induct-mounting methods, as well as portable monitors with integrated batteries for versatile deployment.
- Reliable Connectivity: Supports both wired and wireless Internet connections, ensuring seamless integration into different environments and infrastructures.
- Easy Maintenance: Provides easily replaceable plug-and-play sensors that simplify calibration without the need to send the entire IAQ monitor back to the laboratory.
- Industry Compliance: Provides RESET-accredited IAQ monitors integrated with Arc, guaranteeing high quality and compliance with industry standards.
Data Points
Particulate Matter [PM2.5/ 10], Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Formaldehyde, Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide NO2, Sulfur Dioxide SO2, Carbon Monoxide CO, Hydrogen Sulfide H2S, Humidity, Temperature, Air velocity (m/s), Viral Index, Other not-listed parameters.
Water Monitors
Our water meters comprehensively monitor both water flow and water quality. With a range of water meter sizes, we can measure water flow from a single faucet to a main supply pipe for a network of buildings.
- Reliable Operation: All the monitors are equipped with batteries to ensure continuous water consumption tracking during power outages, with data uploaded once power and internet are restored.
- Outdoor-Ready: Designed with an IP68 protection level, the water meter can be deployed outdoors and withstand rainwater interference. The flow metering system helps users manage water consumption, detect leaks, prevent plumbing faults, and handle water billing, among other deliverables.
- Space-Saving Design: the monitor is designed to compact multiple sensors into a single box, ensuring continuous monitoring of potable water quality in limited spaces such as cupboards under water dispensers.
- Flexible Sizing: The monitor is available in sizes suitable for a single dispenser terminal to a centralized water filtration appliance.
Lighting and Sound Monitoring
BEE Sense supports both lighting and sound monitoring services. Any hardware model that outputs data can easily communicate with the BEE Sense server through its open data integration socket.
Lighting
- Automated Control: Supports sensor inputs for automatic on/off switching or brightness adjustment based on schedules or occupancy sensors.
- Energy Efficiency: Monitors sunlight levels to balance artificial and natural light, conserving energy when natural light is sufficient.
- Continuous Optimization: Enables data-driven diagnostics and seasonal or annual optimization strategies, improving energy efficiency and cost savings.
Data Points
Lighting intensity, sunlight level, energy use, illumination quality.
Sound
- System Evaluation: Compares sound levels with acoustic appliance settings, ensuring proper evaluation and preventing issues from malfunctioning systems.
- Regulatory Compliance: Supports compliance with regulations, such as WELL, through effective sound monitoring.
Data Points
Noise levels, sound duration
GATEWAY DATA INTEGRATION CAPABILITIES
Seamless Cloud Connectivity
Once data is collected into the gateway, it can be seamlessly integrated from local devices to the cloud with no limitations on data intervals, traffic, or duration. Data is formatted in universally common formats such as JSON and CSV, and communication protocols like HTTPs Post, MQTT, and FTP are supported, ensuring compatibility and secure data transmission.
Versatile Data Integration
BEE Sense integrates a wide range of metering devices, from traditional meters with pulse outputs to modern devices, using TCP/IP, serial protocols, and OCR technology. If data is already hosted on a local or cloud server, BEE Sense can function as a software-only solution, integrating data via API. The secure HTTPS Restful API enables seamless interfacing with third-party data collection systems, and the received data undergoes real-time processing to generate actionable insights.
