CanadaReal estate2020 – ongoingKillam Apartment REIT
AI heating control at Quinpool Tower in Halifax
Killam put an AI controller on the heating of a Halifax apartment tower with a 9% savings guarantee from the vendor
Problem
Killam ran a portfolio of about 17,000 apartment units and had set emissions-reduction goals. Heating was a large energy cost in its older buildings.
Approach
Killam installed Ecopilot, an AI system that controls heating in real time, at Quinpool Tower, an 11-storey, 233-unit building in Halifax. The system uses the building's thermal properties, the weather and indoor temperature. Killam said it chose the product partly because of a guaranteed minimum saving and a three-year payback.
Results
Takeaway
The savings figure was a contract guarantee at the time of the article. Measured results from the building were not yet reported.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Real estate
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and MLOptimization
- Adoption
- Vendor solution
- Goal
- Cost savings
- Evidence
- Press reporting
Sources
Source summaries
The article describes Killam's installation of the Ecopilot AI heating controller at Quinpool Tower in Halifax. It gives a guaranteed minimum saving of 9% and a three-year payback as the basis for the choice. No results from the building are reported.
Full details are in the original sources.
