Building control
Heating and lights that follow the people, not the clock.The doors you fit, driving the heating and lights.
We’re building it now, and we’d rather tell you than pretend. The idea: the access system already knows who’s in the building, so the heating and lights should too. Heat the floors that have people on them. Dim the lobby when nobody’s about. Send the electricity bill a strongly worded letter.
We’re building it now, and we’d rather tell you than pretend. The plan: read the Modbus, BACnet and KNX kit already in the building, run it from who’s badged in at the doors, and share the on-site gateway with the camera recorder.
In development
A timer runs a schedule. Bolt will run the building. The badge-ins you wire, driving the plant.
Most building management heats to a clock. Ours is being built to heat to the access system, so the radiator is only on when somebody is there to feel it.
Most building management heats to a clock. Ours is being built to follow the doors you already fit, so occupancy comes from kit that’s on the wall anyway.
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Everyone working from home
On a timer
Heating on at 07:00 anyway
With Bolt (planned)
Nobody badged in, so it stays off
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Late meeting on floor 3
On a timer
Floor went cold at 18:00
With Bolt (planned)
Floor 3 stays warm until they leave
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Empty lobby at night
On a timer
Lights on until the timer says
With Bolt (planned)
Dimmed once the last person is out
Built to talk to the kit you’ve already bought. Read the kit that’s there. Don’t rip it out.
Buildings collect controllers from every decade since the eighties. We don’t plan to rip them out. We plan to read them, and show the lot in the same dashboard as your doors.
Buildings collect controllers from every decade since the eighties. The plan is to read them over the protocols they already speak, and share the on-site gateway with the camera recorder.
| Protocols | Modbus · BACnet · KNX · MQTT · REST |
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| EV chargers | OCPP 1.6 and 2.0.1 |
| Scheduling | Driven by occupancy from Bolt doors |
| Energy reports | Per zone and per tenant |
| Alarms | Phone, email or webhook |
| On site | Shares the gateway with the camera recorder |
Planned scope. It may change before release.
It isn’t shipping. Yet.
We’re choosing a handful of buildings to try it first. You get a direct line to the people building it, a say in what it does, and the occasional pizza.
Tell us about your building. We’ll only email when we have news worth emailing about.
Tell us about a building you look after. We’ll only email when we have news worth emailing about.
You’re on the list.
Thanks. We’ll be in touch when there’s something real to show you, and not before.