The measurements
a BAS was never
wired to take.
Q-Smart is our wireless sensor and cloud platform. It goes where a building automation system does not reach — a walk-in freezer, a tenant floor, a pump room with no controller in it — and it puts what it finds on one dashboard. Deployable across a single site or a portfolio.
Six capabilities,
one platform.
Low-maintenance wireless hardware, remote monitoring and analytics on the data it returns. A site takes whichever of these it needs; they arrive on the same dashboard rather than as six separate systems with six separate logins.
Cold storage monitoring
Continuous automated temperature monitoring across cooler and freezer equipment, replacing the manual compliance round. The gap a manual log leaves is not the reading itself — it is the fourteen hours between readings.
Space occupancy
Desk, room and motion sensing mapped across a floor plate. Easy to deploy and to scale, and the fifteen-year battery means a hundred sensors do not become a hundred maintenance tickets.
Energy optimization
Continuous monitoring used to find and act on efficiency opportunities — particularly the ones that only show up as a pattern over weeks rather than as a fault on any single day.
Water leak detection
Detection in the places where a leak is both expensive and unwitnessed: mechanical rooms, risers, and above ceilings on tenant floors.
Environmental monitoring
Temperature, humidity and air quality tracked over time, so a comfort complaint can be answered with a record rather than a site visit and a guess.
Critical equipment monitoring
Runtime and condition visibility on the equipment a site cannot operate without, with alarms that reach an operator rather than sitting in a log.
Five steps,
any deployment.
The same underlying process we use across the engineering work, adapted to a sensor deployment rather than an audit: assess, deploy, integrate, analyse, keep watching.
Across commercial
real estate.
Cold storage
monitoring, at
Iqbal Foods.
One completed deployment: real sensors on a real floor plan, in a retail food operation where the temperature record is a compliance obligation as much as an energy one.
Iqbal Foods
Before the deployment, temperature readings were taken by hand for compliance. That leaves no visibility overnight and no way to catch a unit drifting between checks — a problem surfaces as a spoiled-product loss or a compliance gap, which is to say after it has already cost something. Continuous monitoring closed that window.
These three figures are the operator's own post-deployment reporting. They are not IPMVP-verified savings and carry no stated measurement basis or confidence interval, so they should be read as an indication of the direction rather than as a number to underwrite against. Where we publish verified savings — on our audit and optimization work — the method and the uncertainty are stated with them.
Common questions.
Often you should not. Where a BAS already trends a point reliably, we use the BAS. Q-Smart is for what the BAS was never wired to: walk-in refrigeration, tenant floors, remote buildings on a portfolio with no controls at all, and anything where running new cable costs more than the measurement is worth.
That the deployment does not decay. The usual failure mode of a wireless sensor programme is not the sensors — it is that after eighteen months a third of them are flat, the data has holes in it, and nobody trusts the dashboard any more. Battery life is the difference between a monitoring system and a monitoring project.
Yes, and it is usually the right way round. A first deployment on one building tells you what the data is actually worth to your operation before the same decision is made fifty times.
You do, and we do while we are engaged. Access is per-site and per-user. Building measurement data is commercially sensitive — occupancy in particular — and it is treated that way. Our privacy policy covers how we handle what we hold.
Elsewhere in the platform.
Q-Peak ↗
Demand response aggregation and settlement for the IESO Peak Performance Program.
All four platforms
Q-Peak, Q-Smart, Q-PM and Q-Facility — what each one does and why it exists.
Building Optimization
What we do with the measurements once they exist: sequences, schedules and the faults that only show up in trend data.
Thirty minutes, with the engineer who would run the work.
No cost and no obligation. Bring twelve months of utility bills if you have them — that alone is usually enough to say whether a building has a capital problem or a controls problem.