Optimizing Commercial Buildings with Smart Demand Response

75F is proud to include a smart OpenADR compliant solution with real-time occupancy prioritization and optimized air quality into utility programs that lower energy costs for businesses and communities around the world.

Automated Demand Response (ADR) uses modern communication tools to systematically reduce peak energy usage in real time by powering down a portfolio of connected commercial properties. This automation lowers infrastructure costs for utilities and producers, lowers energy cost for customers, and reduces the frequency and severity of load shed events.

Because most renewable energy is intermittent, rising energy demand means the need for smarter ADR solutions is growing. The challenge with existing commercial ADR solutions is they are expensive and complex to manage, implement, and maintain. Reducing power indiscriminately across connected properties has resulted in over a decade of pushback from owners and occupants, including schools, medical offices, warehouses, restaurants, municipal buildings, retail stores, and small businesses.

75F's award-winning control solution uses low-cost, AI-enabled smart devices to deliver a more comfortable and energy-efficient autopilot for smart buildings. The system works with any existing HVAC equipment in a range of commercial buildings of every size, delivering comprehensive demand management based on real-time onboard occupancy and air quality sensors. During a load shed event, 75F's smart ADR solution prioritizes all occupied zones or spaces in a building — as well as fresh outside air based on weather data — to continuously redirect conditioned air where it is needed most. When a demand response event is triggered, The system can instantly adjust appropriate loads without compromising customer comfort.

To increase the scale of ADR programs, 75F's integrated solution uses AI and ML in the cloud and works completely out of the box. There is no need to install any additional hardware.

"By integrating automated demand response with 75F's industry-leading energy savings, customers can take advantage of all the benefits associated with demand response programs in a single site or across their portfolio, as well as the ongoing energy and operational savings from our AI-powered energy management solution. This enables us to help more customers and utilities save money by installing and managing more commercial buildings than ever before."