Digital twin
Advanced energy optimisation solution
Your BMS gets smarter
KiTwin, the Kipsum digital twin, connects to any type of existing BMS. Every day it calculates the setpoints that cut consumption while maintaining occupant comfort or production.
It is a highly accurate virtual representation of your real installation, able to simulate and predict its behaviour. Using artificial intelligence, it determines the optimal settings and measures the savings achieved.
What is a digital twin?
Imagine being able to predict precisely how your building will behave and how its systems will interact, in its own environment. That is what KiTwin does: a virtual copy of your installation, continuously fed with real data, on which to test and anticipate before acting.
Connects to any BMS
KiTwin works with the BMS you already have, whatever its brand. Three conditions are enough:
- Static data: a description of the buildings (plans, orientations, heating and cooling systems, distribution diagrams).
- Live data: field sensor values, sent in real time, and the weather.
- A return path to the field: the ability to send control setpoints to the controllers, to optimise control and achieve the expected savings.
When your BMS cannot handle these exchanges directly, the Light BMS gateway takes care of them.
How does it work?
1. Collect
Data from sensors, the BMS and meters, combined with weather forecasts, is fed into our secure cloud.
2. Model
Each zone, the thermal comfort equipment and occupant habits are modelled from the laws of physics, in 2 to 3 weeks.
3. Validate
The model is validated against real measurements (correlation above 90%), then continuously recalibrated.
4. Predict and optimise
At each time step, AI anticipates weather and occupancy over 24 hours and calculates the optimal settings.
Optimisation your way: you decide
Recommendations or control
Two levels of intervention
KiTwin can simply send you recommendations and alerts for your teams to apply: typical savings up to 15%. It can also control your installations directly in closed loop, up to 30%, within the scope agreed with you and with manual override possible at any time.
Why choose KiTwin?
Measured savings
Savings corrected for weather and usage using the IPMVP method; payback on optimisation in under a year.
Comfort and production preserved
Comfort and production constraints are built into the calculation; local safety always comes first.
No need to replace equipment
It connects to your existing BMS, whatever its brand, directly or through the KiSmart gateway.
Secure data
Kipsum cloud hosted on Google Cloud Platform, Paris region, ISO 27001 certified.
Use cases
Offices
Schedules matched to occupancy
Adjust HVAC schedules to forecast weather and occupancy.
Industry
Utilities matched to production
Align chillers, compressed air and steam with production schedules.
