Heating and cooling
Adjust heating and cooling around school hours, room use and forecast weather, while maintaining comfortable temperatures.
ENERGY OPTIMISATION FOR SCHOOLS
Smarter energy use for schools
Voroven is developing software to help schools reduce electricity costs by coordinating existing equipment around timetables, room use and everyday requests, while respecting comfort and operating limits.
Where could your school save?
Opportunities would depend on your school's equipment and electricity use.
Rooftop solar
Make better use of electricity generated on site by coordinating suitable equipment around solar availability.
Out-of-hours energy use
Identify equipment running unnecessarily outside school hours and reduce avoidable consumption.
Peak electricity demand
Coordinate equipment to reduce unnecessary peaks in electricity demand, where this can lower costs.
Built around the school day—and changes to it
Timetables are only part of the picture. A room booking, an after-school event or a change in preferred temperature can alter what a building needs. Voro is being developed to translate these requirements into equipment operating plans, using forecasts and electricity prices while respecting agreed comfort limits and staff overrides.
What would the pilot include?
Touchscreen dashboard
View energy consumption, equipment status and opportunities to improve efficiency, with controls tailored to the school.
Automation hardware
Where needed, connect suitable existing equipment and sensors for monitoring and control.
Intelligent software
Analyse energy use, identify opportunities and coordinate equipment around the school's operating requirements.
The system would be configured around existing school operations, with agreed limits to protect comfort and equipment requirements. Staff would retain control over automated settings.
Getting started
How would it work?
Understand school needs
Identify the school's operating requirements and energy challenges.
Assess compatibility and agree scope
We'll review your equipment and electricity use, then discuss pilot scope, timing and participation arrangements.
Trial and evaluate
Subject to equipment compatibility and an agreed scope, we'll install any necessary equipment and evaluate energy use, costs and comfort alongside normal school operations.
Any pilot arrangements would be agreed with the school before proceeding.
SECTOR RESEARCH
Research informing our approach
Australian school-energy research highlights opportunities to coordinate HVAC, solar generation and building operations. Previous projects also show that equipment integration, commissioning and access to reliable data are central to evaluating those opportunities. Voroven’s planned pilots will assess these practical requirements alongside energy costs, comfort and normal school operations.
- i-Hub schools roadmap (2022, PDF)
A whole-building perspective on renewable energy, equipment upgrades, controls and indoor environmental quality.
- Australian schools energy baseline study (2022, PDF)
School energy-use data and benchmarking considerations, including differences in school size and available metering data.
- NSW schools integration project — DCH6.1 (2022, PDF)
Buildings Evolved’s contribution included HVAC integration testing and financial modelling of different technology combinations. The modelling indicated strong potential value from HVAC controls under the study’s assumptions. Infrastructure and data connections were implemented, but installation delays limited verification of optimisation savings in the schools.
Its living lab reproduced school-style HVAC controls to test connectivity, control logic and integration with CSIRO’s Data Clearing House before deployment.
These independent studies provide sector context; their results are not Voroven performance results.
Interested in a school pilot?
Contact us to discuss your school's equipment, energy use and operating requirements. Pilot scope, timing and participation arrangements would be agreed following an initial assessment.
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