It’s 6:58 a.m., it’s Thursday, in the elevator, “Welcome” signs clash with dodging glances.
Elena, the building’s manager, reviews the 7:30 meeting: three annoying tenants, a CFO asking for “objective criteria” and an Excel that doesn’t add up.
Third dispute of the month, same cause: lighting and electricity consumption without reliable data.
At 7:10, the fifth floor looks empty and lit. The cleaning crew left twenty minutes ago, but the scenes are set to “maximum for security”.
In the sixth, the east wing opens earlier; in the west wing, they arrive at 9 a.m., although the delivery is still “by meters”.
The lobby looks like a hotel postcard: impeccable, brightly lit and without a clear manager.
The delivery by surface was a comfortable shortcut… until the way of working changed: hybrid shifts, rooms lit by habit and presence that no one corrects.
“We pay for others”, “They charge us common areas without control”, “With these numbers, I cannot rebill”.
The tension does not stem from energy consumption, but from a sense of injustice.
Your Casambi installer proposes: Adquio PowerTrace for Casambi.
– “Without physical meters, we calculate kWh per office, floor and common areas, in real time. From Casambi events we infer power → energy.”
– “No work? Today?”
– “Today.”
Elena reviews years of excuses, technical visits and budgets. If this works, the discussions are over; if not, it will be another empty promise that will take its toll.
Day 1
Mapping: each luminaire is assigned to a tenant or common area (lobby, corridors, elevators).
Calendars: actual schedules and shifts are imported; presence windows and levels are defined by band.
Rules: no presence, ramp to minimum; in case of a punctual event, controlled fall after the set time.
Calculation: of events → power → kWh per space, with full traceability.
Day 2
The first board reveals what no one had seen before: curves per tenant and per common area that used to clash like tectonic plates… and suddenly they fit together.
Night lobby: flat consumption at 80% due to a “temporary patch” that has been going on for months.
West wing of the sixth: +29% in front of the east wing due to a scene inherited from an event.
Meeting rooms: low occupancy, lights at 100%.
Common areas: almost one third of the total expenditure, diluted without a reproducible criterion.
There is no shouting. There is silence. The silence of data that admits no discussion.
For the first time, everyone looks at the same source… and understands the same story.
Adjusted scenes: day 65 % → 50 %; evening 55 % → 40 %; night 35 % → 15 %, with gentle ramps.
Presence: 20 min → 7 min in low turnover rooms.
Fairness rule: common areas are excluded from the distribution by meters; they are charged for their actual kWh.
Maintenance: corrects the “temporary patch” and normalizes the night lobby.
No one “loses face”; everyone gains criteria.
In 14 days:
Elena receives an email from the CFO:
“Finally we have objective basis. Let’s take it to the whole portfolio.”
That day, the hallway looks like a hallway again. Not a battlefield.
Pilot in 10 days. One floor + common areas.
If you do not see clarity and peace in your closing, you don’t continue. It’s as simple as that.
Shall we activate it today?
