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Energy efficiency is a key issue for building owners
and occupants. The use of IoT technologies such
as LoRaWAN® offers numerous opportunities to
reduce energy consumption as well as intelligent-
ly optimize consumption profiles.
The key to this are smart buildings. These are
equipped with a variety of networked devices that
independently communicate with each other and
automatically perform actions.
In order to reduce energy consumption, energy
costs and emissions, the legislator in Germany
also sets corresponding guard rails such as the
Buildings Energy Act (GEG) or the Heating Cost
Ordinance (HKVO).
In the property of the future, digitalisation and
sustainability go hand in hand. The goal is to
make the building stock climate-neutral by 2045.
Especially in view of the currently rising energy
costs, it is also in the interest of landlords, building
occupants or other building users to use energy as
efficiently as possible. In this way, economic inter-
ests and environmental goals can be combined.
This white paper examines the opportunities that
exist, particularly when retrofitting existing build-
ings, and why smart radiator thermostats in par-
ticular are an excellent solution for energy savings
in buildings and networked neighborhoods.
Introduction
INFO: LORAWAN®
LoRaWAN® is a communication protocol
specifically designed to meet the
requirements of IoT applications that rely
on long battery runtimes in addition to
range. With its special radio modulation,
this bidirectional, wireless transmission
method enables data transmission over long
distances while consuming little energy.
