Scalable Hardware, Software and Data Strategy

The Recipe for Building Efficiency

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Hardware Management

Lease & purchase of utility meters

Integration of Data Sources

Meter integration possibilities & NorthQ hardware

Performance Data Collection

In-house produced devices & API capabilities

Data Quality Management

Installed hardware & indoor climate monitoring

Cloud Services & API Access

Cloud services, data ingestion & access

Visualisation & Analytics

Dashboards monitoring energy & system performance

Added-Value Solutions

Energy reporting, distribution accounting, ESG & more

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Hardware Management

NorthQ has 15 years of expertise in the deployment of IoT hardware. We have mastered the art of identifying the unique needs of different buildings, regardless of their type, size or age.

Hardware & IoT Strategy

This experience allows us to consult effectively, ensuring you receive the right hardware strategy tailored to your specific property needs. With NorthQ, you are guaranteed a robust hardware management approach that results in a long-term data collection solution.

Choosing the right hardware strategy can be a daunting task, but with NorthQ Solutions, you are never alone in the process. Our team walks alongside you, ensuring every hardware management decision aligns with your goals. With NorthQ, you are choosing a proven approach that is all about clarity and precision.

Hardware Leasing

In today's Real Estate climate, marked by inflation and rising interest rates, construction costs have skyrocketed. NorthQ's Hardware Leasing offers a solution. We enable businesses to equip their properties with the latest in metering and data collection technology, positively impacting their CAPEX budget.

Our leasing model ensures you always have access to cutting-edge technology. Not only do you mitigate upfront expenses, but you also position your projects to benefit from continuous technological advancements. With NorthQ, you are making a strategic decision for both sustainability and financial savings.

Hardware Sales

By choosing direct hardware purchases from NorthQ Solutions, you gain full control and flexibility over your metering and data collection devices. No monthly fees, no long-term contracts – just quality equipment that stands the test of time.

Investing directly in our technology means you are not only purchasing hardware - you are investing in reliability. With NorthQ's solutions, long-term data collection is ensured. This approach is ideal for businesses seeking a one-time investment with a clear ROI, ensuring continuous data accuracy and system efficiency for years to come.

Integration of Data Sources

Extracting data from diverse sources within a property becomes our primary focus once the hardware strategy and project scope are set. This encompasses main meters, sub-meters, sensors, and essential operational systems such as HVAC and solar setups. Our deep experience, combined with our adaptable solutions ensures a smooth and straightforward data source integration process.

Meter Data Integration

Through the years, we have worked with a wide range of meters commonly used in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. This hands-on experience allows us to offer quick setup times, aligning data collection solutions with varied infrastructure needs.

The Q-Reader

The Q-Reader is NorthQ's leading data logger device, often referred to as the 'Swiss army knife' for building performance data extraction. While modern meters offer wireless data collection, older ones do not. Rather than opting for expensive meter replacements, the Q-Reader presents a unique solution. It easily connects to existing main/sub-meters and even some building systems, drawing data directly from them.

Our innovative device stands as the most reliable way to gain a comprehensive overview of your portfolio's performance.

System Data Integration

At NorthQ, we specialise in data solutions. We can integrate with many HVAC and other important building systems. And if a system is not on our current list? Our dedicated team is always ready, expanding our integration range to meet unique property needs.

Performance Data Collection

In today's Real Estate landscape, performance data is crucial. At NorthQ, we specialise in collecting detailed data, capturing readings every 15 minutes from various sources - main meters, sub-meters, systems, or other third-party inputs. This data isn't just numbers - it offers a transparent overview of building performance, is essential for meeting regulatory requirements, and is the foundation for the continuous improvement of the building management ecosystem.

Q-Connect

Q-Connect is NorthQ's advanced gateway hardware solution, ensuring the reliable and seamless collection of building performance data. Our intelligent device ensures a continuous flow of information, acting as a pivotal bridge between the diverse data silos within a property and NorthQ's data hub.

With Q-Connect, you are not just collecting data - you are unlocking the potential for greener and more efficient building management.

Q-Boost

Navigating building infrastructure can have its challenges, particularly in maintaining consistent data transmission. Q-Boost, NorthQ's repeater hardware technology, is designed to boost signal strength and overcome those hard-to-reach areas. With Q-Boost, reliable data flow is ensured, regardless of the property's layout or size.

Online Data Through API

In our digital age, leveraging existing data is the key to proactive building management. NorthQ provides the capability to tap into online data sources through APIs, seamlessly integrating with third-party platforms.

Whether it is energy providers, regulatory platforms, or other related systems, our API integration ensures a streamlined flow of information. Utilising API data collection offers a cost-effective method to acquire performance insights, while also enriching the overall view of building performance with diverse sources.

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Data Quality Management

Data quality is essential for effective decision-making and streamlined building management. At NorthQ Solutions, we place a strong emphasis on quality and security, evident in our commitment to delivering top-notch solutions. We have developed our own line of hardware products to ensure excellence in data collection.

Monitoring Data Quality

We proactively monitor data quality, swiftly addressing any issues to maintain reliable and accurate insights into your portfolio and building's efficiency. Our rigorous data quality checks guarantee that the information driving your decisions is always dependable. With NorthQ, you can trust that the foundation of your sustainability and efficiency efforts rests on the highest data quality standards.

“NorthQ's agility in responding to our additional requests and their expertise in solving data-related challenges have been exceptional. Their support showcases the future of digital services, demonstrating how technology can be leveraged for continuous improvement in facility and energy management.’’

Tomi Meriläinen- Head of Operations Serviced Living at NREP

Monitoring Data Collection Hardware

Our suite of devices, including Q-Reader, Q-Connect, and Q-Boost, ensures uninterrupted data collection. We provide ongoing maintenance to guarantee reliability, supporting informed decision-making and enhanced performance.

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Cloud Services & API Access

NorthQ excels in collecting and processing vast volumes of energy & system performance data. Beyond just gathering information, we fill in data gaps, ensuring complete & reliable datasets. We format and standardise all data from varied sources, providing a uniform and easily interpretable overview. This standardised approach simplifies data-driven decision-making and reinforces our commitment to offering streamlined solutions for comprehensive building management.

Cloud Services

Centralising and formatting data is where NorthQ truly differentiates itself in the building management sector. Our advanced cloud services take raw, diverse data from multiple sources and transform it into a uniform format.

By having such a streamlined and standardised dataset, cross-system optimisation becomes feasible. This is essential, as it unlocks the highest potential for energy and CO2 savings, pushing the boundaries of sustainable building management.

Data Ingestion

NorthQ's data ingestion capabilities allow for the smooth integration of vast volumes of data from varied sources. This process ensures that all relevant information is captured, processed, and made ready for analysis, paving the way for informed decision-making and optimised energy and facility management practices.

API Data Provision

At NorthQ, we prioritise flexibility and adaptability, tailoring our solutions to ensure that data is delivered precisely where our clients need it.

It is crucial to understand the distinction between API access and API integration. While API access refers to the ability to retrieve data from our platform for use in other systems, API integration involves the seamless merging of third-party data sources into our platform. In essence, we ensure data fluidity, adapting to your unique requirements.

NorthQ Solutions Dashboard Quriosity visualising building data and analytics

Visualisation & Analytics

Quriosity, our SaaS platform, offers two levels of functionality. At the portfolio level, it provides transparency into your property portfolio's ESG data and performance. Detailed analytics are available on our building-level Quriosity which are used for building system optimisation and monitoring. The access to such insights enables data-driven decisions and brings our clients up to 30% in energy savings.

Quriosity: Portfolio Dashboard

Quriosity on a Portfolio level gives an overview of all your different properties in one place. It visualises main meter data from each building providing an outlook of your portfolio’s energy performance. The benchmark function not only provides an overview but also allows you to further compare one property with another. This way you can identify which assets perform the best and which asset it would be the wisest to invest more resources in.

Quriosity: Building Dashboard

Quriosity on a Building level dives more into a particular property as to how the Quriosity Portfolio dashboard operates. It provides more in-depth information on energy and system performance data of a specific building in one central platform.

Analytics of higher detail are visible per apartment and per utility type as well as other metrics depending on if the customisation service is enabled. Access to these insights and alarms based on system performance means fast reaction and identification of problems and where they stem from. On top of this, all the visualised data can be easily exported for more efficient management.

Building Systems Monitoring

Quriosity visualises heating, ventilation and solar system data of any new and existing buildings. Additionally, it provides a visual of the HVAC set-up itself, ensuring a comprehensive system overview. With the NorthQ dashboard, boiler room system monitoring is fully remote supplying you with cooling penalty analytics and other issue identification. Additionally, this helps to understand how and if the systems are working together rather than against each other.

Systems Optimisation

NorthQ Solutions provides tools for improved facility management and increased property efficiency for its clients. At the same time, our team monitors your assets to maintain quality and advise on system and energy optimisation.

With access through NorthQ Solutions, evaluation and adjustment of control settings can be done to improve the overall system performance resulting in lower costs and energy waste. To ensure transparency and effectiveness, Quriosity stores a floor plan documentation of all spaces where NorthQ Solutions’ hardware has been installed.

NorthQ Solutions visualisation of CO2 emissions, cooling and energy label, report of energy data

Added-Value Solutions

The vast variety and flexibility of our products and services provide quite possibly endless opportunities. Meaning, that NorthQ is able to integrate with other systems and platforms that unify the different solutions - enforcing them to work together better, and enhancing each other’s value. As a result, the value that NorthQ Solutions brings extends beyond our direct products and services, since we are a fundamental part of creating impact for all the stakeholders.

Yearly Energy Reporting

The energy reporting service provides concise and insightful analysis of your real estate asset energy consumption and usage patterns, carbon emissions and other relevant metrics. With detailed yearly reports and user-friendly visualisations, NorthQ empowers building developers and owners to make informed decisions, pinpoint where savings can be made and advise/consult where energy efficiency can be optimised.

Distribution Accounting

Through the API data provision service, NorthQ is able to provide automated and reliable distribution accounting by collaborating with other PropTech partners. The capability to integrate with various distribution accounting platforms provides freedom to our clients to choose the partner that best fits their needs.

EED Compliance

With the ability to adapt to unique building demands the combination of our products and services results in up to 30% in energy savings for our clients. We enable our customers with data-driven decision-making, and assure EED compliance by implementing energy-saving measures, achieving energy efficiency targets, and granting access to consumption data and billing.

ESG Compliance

Through the provision of specific performance data metrics that follow precise KPIs of our client’s reporting strategy, NorthQ ensures ESG compliance and brings your real estate assets closer to sustainability and decarbonisation. The extent of data granularity and detail that we provide is unmatched and greatly needed not only in meeting regulatory requirements, but also to enhance reputation, attract responsible investors, and contribute positively to society and the environment.

Tenant Experience

NorthQ continuously integrates with other PropTech partners to deliver enhanced value to the tenants, the end users of our customers. Due to the high integration capabilities of NorthQ, the added-value of tenant experience has a wide range including energy communities, indoor climate optimisation, tenant app or other tenant platform integrations and more.

We are able to accommodate our clients through the right partnerships that ensure increased tenant experience, retention & satisfaction due to visualisation and data transparency.

The Recipe for Building Efficiency

STEP 2

STEP 3

STEP 4

STEP 5

STEP 6

STEP 1

EXTRA

Hardware Management

Integration of Data Sources

Performance Data Collection

Data Quality Management

Cloud Services & API Access

Visualisation & Analytics

Added-Value Solutions

Hardware Management

Hardware & IoT Strategy

Hardware Leasing

Hardware Sales

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