Time-tested building model enables personalized energy recommendations

Energy service providers, product and service providers, and application developers share a common goal: provide comprehensive solutions to help consumers effectively understand and control their energy use on a daily basis, and make more informed energy-related choices. Achieving that goal involves providing consumers with relevant suggestions; yet most energy-saving recommendations make generalized assumptions about consumers and how they use energy. Often, these generic assessments are incorrect, misinform consumers and can even increase a consumer’s energy costs.The Tendril Building Model enables providers and developers to generate customized, accurate energy-savings recommendations that drive consumer engagement and present relevant information to incite consumers to take action.

Enabling data-backed decisions

Instead of taking a one-size-fits-all approach, the Tendril Building Model provides consumers with customized information about how they personally are using energy in their home—and creates applicable recommendations for energy conservation and efficiency.

The Tendril Building Model uses advanced calculations—such as characteristics of the home, its location and specific energy-consuming equipment—to drive personalized Energy Efficiency tips and user feedback.

Validated against industry-standard testing procedures and cross-validated by state-of-the-art research software, the Tendril Building Model combines physics-based and data-driven modeling that improve the system’s capabilities over time as providers collect more information about consumers’ consumption and home characteristics.

The Tendril Building Model accurately breaks down the various energy uses within a home and presents that information to the consumer via the Tendril Energize™ application suite. Through easy-to-understand tools, we provide consumers with this feedback—a snapshot of their energy-use habits—to help them make more informed energy-use choices and decisions going forward.

To learn more about Tendril Connect™ please contact Tendril to speak with a technical specialist today.