Quickstart: From Empty Building to Optimized in 5 Steps
Map your building hierarchy, auto-discover IoT devices, wire up room booking and automation rules, and switch on the AI Energy Optimization engine — start to finish.
Before You Begin
You don't need specialized edge hardware or a professional integrator to get started — the setup below runs from the admin UI. It helps to have three things ready:
- A floor plan (optional, but recommended). A 2D SVG or an AutoCAD DWG file. Aeion extracts door positions, wall geometry, and zone labels automatically, which is what powers both the digital twin and A\* indoor wayfinding. You can start without one and add it later; you just won't have the twin or turn-by-turn navigation until you do.
- A network-reachable IoT gateway. Auto-discovery works over your existing network — a standard commercial BACnet router or a Raspberry Pi running an MQTT bridge is enough to relay telemetry into the Aeion cloud. No proprietary appliance required.
- A calendar you want to sync (optional). A Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 account, if you plan to turn on room and desk booking with bidirectional calendar sync in Step 3.
Yes. Unlike startups that only support Wi-Fi widgets, Aeion Smart Spaces natively supports industrial protocols like BACnet (IP/MSTP) and Modbus, allowing you to ingest data from 20-year-old chillers and modern Zigbee sensors seamlessly.
If you also have the Aeion Sentinel module enabled, the systems merge dynamically. You can link a Smart Spaces "Zone" to a Sentinel "Security Zone". If a fire alarm triggers in Smart Spaces, Sentinel can automatically unlock the exit mantrap doors.
No. You connect to our cloud ecosystem using standard commercial IoT gateways (like a Raspberry Pi running an MQTT bridge or a standard BACnet router) that securely pass your telemetry to the Aeion Cloud architecture.
The Energy Optimization engine works by cross-referencing your historical energy burn against actual occupancy and foot traffic. It needs a baseline of real telemetry to tell the difference between "this room is warm because people are in it" and ghost heating — HVAC running full blast in an empty space. About a week of readings gives it enough signal to grade the building A–F and rank fixes by savings-to-effort, rather than guessing from a cold start.
Aeion tells you clearly instead of pretending the command went through. Write commands (HVAC setpoints, lighting scenes, shade positions) flow back through the same protocol adapters that carry telemetry in; if the target device is unreachable, the action is flagged as not delivered rather than silently reported as successful — so an automation rule never leaves you believing a room was set back when it wasn't.
$129/mo flat for the module, with unlimited buildings, unlimited IoT sensors, and unlimited users — no per-sensor fees or seat limits, and every protocol adapter and AI feature included. There's a 14-day free trial to run the full setup end to end before you commit.