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Cision Canada
20-05-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Planon Recognized with Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Global Customer Value Leadership Award for Transforming Smart Building Operations with Its Sustainable Building Energy Management Solutions
Planon's Energy & Sustainability Management solutions empower businesses to seamlessly integrate data, reduce energy consumption, and automate energy-saving strategies while meeting rigorous global sustainability regulations. SAN ANTONIO, May 20, 2025 /CNW/ -- Frost & Sullivan recently researched the IoT-driven building energy management industry and, based on its findings, recognizes Planon with the Global Customer Value Leadership Award. Planon is a pioneer of integrated building management solutions, offering a sophisticated, open, and interoperable platform that enhances smart buildings' efficiency, sustainability, and operational performance. Planon provides a fully unified system that consolidates real estate, facility operations, and energy management into a single, data-driven interface, enabling organizations to optimize building performance and achieve sustainability goals. The company's innovative approach integrates energy management, real estate operations, and sustainability efforts, allowing organizations to make data-driven decisions that significantly reduce operational costs. The company's commitment to innovation and customer-centricity has made it a trusted partner for over 3,250 organizations worldwide, including leaders in real estate, corporate workplaces, universities, and facility service providers. Moreover, Planon's robust financial growth and strong customer retention showcase the tremendous success of its customer-first approach and highly sophisticated technology solutions. "Planon's open, interoperable platform sets it apart from competitors by seamlessly connecting with ERP systems, IoT sensors, BMS, corporate reporting tools, financial management systems, and third-party sustainability frameworks. Unlike traditional point solutions that require multiple software tools and costly integrations, Planon offers a fully unified system that consolidates real estate, facility operations, and energy management into a single, data-driven interface," said Anirudh Bhaskaran, industry principal for energy and environment at Frost & Sullivan. As businesses face increasing pressure to meet sustainability and efficiency goals, Planon positions itself as a major player in the industry by delivering exceptional value and supporting customers on their digital transformation journeys. This ongoing attention to the customer experience creates strong partnerships that enable businesses to quickly maximize their investments and strengthen their operations. The company's effective feedback loops, proactive customer support, and continuous service optimization enable Planon to stay ahead of market trends and consistently exceed client expectations. As a result, the company's unparalleled customer service and personalized assistance have solidified its reputation as a trusted partner in the IoT-driven building energy management industry and fostered a loyal customer base. "By placing customer experience, feedback, and continuous improvement at the center of its strategy, Planon has successfully enhanced its brand reputation, increased customer loyalty, and driven strong financial performance. The company's unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional value, optimizing service quality, and fostering long-term customer relationships has played a pivotal role in its sustained growth, profitability, and leadership in the IoT-driven building energy management industry," noted Bhaskaran. Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that demonstrates excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers, focusing on improving the return on the investment that customers make in its services or products. The award recognizes Planon's unique focus on augmenting its customers' value, beyond simply good customer service, leading to improved customer retention and customer base expansion. Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry. About Frost & Sullivan For six decades, Frost & Sullivan has been world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders, and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, megatrends, new business models, and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion. Contact: Tarini Singh E: About Planon Planon is the leading global provider of Smart Sustainable Building Management software that connects buildings, people and processes. By eliminating data silos and aligning solutions into one shared information platform, Planon provides all building stakeholders with actionable and meaningful insights. Independent market research and consulting firms have consistently rated Planon as a global leader in the market. Planon has implemented its comprehensive solutions for more than 3,250 clients, supported by offices and partners around the world. Contact: E:
Associated Press
12-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
New Study Finds Occupancy-Based Control and Automation Solutions Cut Office Energy Use and Carbon Emissions by 22%
Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced research that found applying occupancy-based controls in meeting rooms leads to an average of 22 per cent savings in operational energy use and carbon emissions for the meeting rooms. The study, which is being released at MIPIM 2025 in a new white paper, Reduce carbon in the real world: Occupancy setbacks deliver big impact for commercial offices, presents compelling evidence around the impact of smart building technology and an approach for businesses seeking energy-efficient solutions that do not require extensive building retrofits. Key findings include: Energy Efficiency Gains: Occupancy-based controls allowed the meeting room to remain in a resting state — at a lower temperature setpoint with minimized HVAC, lighting, and plug load use — 76 per cent of the time during business hours, significantly reducing energy consumption. Energy and Carbon Reduction: Comparing high-occupancy business days to low-occupancy days over a 4-week period, the study observed the lower occupancy days had an average of a 22 per cent reduction in operational energy and carbon in meeting rooms than on higher occupancy days, associated with fan coil, lighting, and plug load use as direct result of occupancy-based controls applied to these rooms. Cost Savings & ROI: The estimated payback period of two years for implementing the advanced sensoring that enables occupancy controls, is conservative, as the analysis only accounted for room-level energy cost savings. If energy cost savings from other HVAC components such as air handling units were included, the payback period would likely be even shorter. Indoor Air Quality & Comfort: Despite the application of controls, CO 2 levels, relative humidity (RH), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) remained within industry-recommended healthy ranges, supporting occupant well-being. 150 Holborn: A Model for Energy-Efficient, Smart Buildings The research was conducted during January and February 2024 at 150 Holborn in London, a 9-story, 18,500-square-meter (200,000-square-foot) smart office building designed for sustainability and occupant well-being. A technology-first approach equips the building with a modern Building Management System (BMS) EcoStruxure™ Building Advisor, IoT-enabled sensors EcoStruxure™ Connected Room Solutions, and an integrated room booking system via Planon's Integrated Workplace Management System. The facility represented an ideal test case for evaluating the impact of energy conservation measures (ECMs) in a real-world environment. The study analyzed how real-time occupancy detection could optimize room conditioning, reducing unnecessary energy consumption while maintaining indoor air quality and occupant comfort. The research team intentionally focused on meeting rooms as the unit of measure—spaces common to all office environments—to ensure broad applicability across commercial buildings. 'This study is compelling and demonstrates how simple, smart adjustments to room settings can have a measurable impact on energy efficiency and carbon, without compromising comfort or air quality,' said Jean-Marc Zola, Building Segments President at Schneider Electric. 'These savings are not hypothetical—they are based on real-world data from a fully operational office building.' A Scalable Blueprint for Smarter Offices While 150 Holborn showcases a state-of-the-art smart building, the study's findings are widely applicable to both new and existing office spaces, where similar savings can be achieved in any building equipped with a modern BMS and sensor-based occupancy detection. As businesses face growing pressure to reduce their carbon footprint and operational costs, solutions like occupancy-based controls present an accessible, high-impact strategy for commercial buildings. This research reinforces Schneider Electric's commitment to driving smarter, more sustainable buildings—ensuring that energy efficiency and reduced emissions are not just a goal, but a practical, data-driven reality for offices worldwide. To access the full white paper, visit here. About Schneider Electric Schneider's purpose is to create Impact by empowering all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be the trusted partner in Sustainability and Efficiency. We are a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation and digitalization to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centers, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes. Anchored by our deep domain expertise, we provide integrated end-to-end lifecycle AI enabled Industrial IoT solutions with connected products, automation, software and services, delivering digital twins to enable profitable growth for our customers. We are a people company with an ecosystem of 150,000 colleagues and more than a million partners operating in over 100 countries to ensure proximity to our customers and stakeholders. We embrace diversity and inclusion in everything we do, guided by our meaningful purpose of a sustainable future for all. Hashtags: #SchneiderElectric #LifeIsOn SOURCE: Schneider Electric Copyright Business Wire 2025. PUB: 03/12/2025 11:50 AM/DISC: 03/12/2025 11:50 AM
