Buddy Platform Limited: Optimizing Resource Consumption through IoT

What is the outcome of highlighting a building’s energy, water, and gas consumption to all of its occupants? Perhaps it can change the occupants’ behavior toward using resources more efficiently. Buddy Platform Limited is a company that looks beyond the IoT hype and builds tangible solutions to solve real-world problems. Through its solution, Buddy Ohm, the company makes it possible to monitor the consumption of resources such as electricity, gas, water, steam, and solar power generation. “We deploy a suite of sensors in the electrical, water, and gas meters or distribution panels of a building to measure the total consumption of resources. Much like a wrist worn activity tracker, the device monitors and shares the information with the building managers and occupants, creating awareness of usage and helping to trigger behavioral change,” says David McLauchlan, CEO and Executive Director, Buddy Platform. With the world on the brink of resource crisis where every unit of power, water, and gas is critical, organizations have realized their role in conserving energy by optimizing their consumption and reducing waste. Buddy Platform’s IoT solution can help save resources, reduce the impact on climate change, and improve the efficiency in managing buildings.

While the outcome of Buddy Ohm is significant, the installation process is simple, owing to its non-intrusive nature. Consequently, Ohm can be used in both old buildings as well as new ones, with installation durations ranging from a few hours to a couple of days. Using a dedicated hardware unit that connects to any TV using an open HDMI port, building displays can be converted into live web-based resource monitoring dashboards to give real-time feedback to building occupants. The dashboards can be customized to display output from the sensors installed in the building. Additionally, it can give a comprehensive reading from different buildings under a single owner.

Buddy’s vision is to make every living space smarter, “Our solutions make it easy to gain insights and make smarter decisions that positively impact businesses, communities and the environment,” states McLauchlan.