One Dashboard for Every Store in the Chain
Retail chains, quick-service restaurants, and convenience-store operators don't run one big building — they run dozens to hundreds of near-identical small ones, each with its own HVAC, lighting, and metering, and no shared visibility. Aeion Smart Spaces models every site as a building in one hierarchy, streams all of their telemetry through a single 10K msgs/sec pipeline, catches HVAC running in closed stores (ghost heating), grades each site A–F, and staggers peak demand across the fleet. Unlimited sites and unlimited sensors on a flat per-workspace price — never a per-sensor fee.
The Multi-Site Energy Problem
A single flagship building has a facilities team watching it. A 200-store fleet has one energy manager watching spreadsheets. The pain is structural:
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Ghost Heating, Fleet-Wide
In retail the biggest, most repeatable waste is simple: conditioning space when the store is closed or empty. Aeion continuously compares two signals per zone — how occupied it's been (motion, calendar/operating hours, or camera-derived occupancy) versus how hard the HVAC has been running. When a zone sits empty while its unit keeps working, that's flagged as ghost heating, rated by severity, with the wasted energy translated into an estimated annual dollar cost and a specific recommended fix.
Staggering Peak Demand Across the Fleet
Demand charges — billed on your single highest usage spike — are a large share of a commercial utility bill. When every store pre-cools at the same clock time each morning, their peaks stack. Aeion's weather-aware HVAC scheduling pulls the hourly forecast per site and pre-conditions ahead of opening and ahead of the weather, and the automation rule engine lets you offset those pre-conditioning windows across sites so their peaks don't all land at once.
What This Use Case Is — and Is Not
Smart Spaces is the intelligence and visibility layer over your fleet, not a rip-and-replace controller. A few honest boundaries:
FAQ
Unlimited buildings and unlimited sensors are included on both tiers — you never pay per site, per point, or per seat. Adding your 300th store costs the same as the third.
For live readings and remote control, yes — Aeion Bridge runs on-site and speaks BACnet/IP, Modbus, KNX, Zigbee, and 15+ protocols, plus a generic HTTP/REST adapter for webhook-capable devices. Sites without a Bridge can't stream live telemetry or accept write commands.
Ingestion is built for 10,000+ messages/sec using a buffer-and-batch-flush pattern (flushing every second or every 100 messages, whichever comes first), so readings aren't dropped under load. Every reading is stored append-only — it can't be edited or deleted after the fact, which keeps energy and sustainability reporting audit-ready.
It correlates HVAC runtime against occupancy signals — motion sensors, camera-derived occupancy, or operating-hours schedules — per zone. When a zone sits empty while its unit runs hard, it's flagged with a severity rating and a dollar-quantified estimate.
Yes. The rule engine pairs a trigger (a schedule, an occupancy change, a telemetry threshold) with actions, and you apply the same pattern across sites. A per-rule cooldown prevents rapid re-triggering on brief occupancy blips.
No — it coexists. Your on-site controls keep their low-level loops; Aeion adds the fleet-wide optimization, A–F grading, and analytics layer. Where a device can't be written to, Aeion surfaces the recommendation instead of silently failing.
We don't publish an aggregated ROI figure. Aeion estimates the dollar value of each finding from your own telemetry and utility rates; realized savings depend on your equipment, tariffs, and how many recommendations you act on.
Every store, one dashboard, no per-sensor fees.
Fleet-wide ghost-heating detection, A–F grading per site, 10K msgs/sec telemetry, weather-aware pre-conditioning, and staggered peak demand — flat per workspace.