Smart Utilities
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Smart Home
Introduction
Dwelo gives managers the ability to turn legwork into clickwork. Our web app brings an entire community of smart hardware onto one platform, so that managers can set all of their vacant-unit thermostats to their desired settings with one click.
Reduce Energy Costs
Dwelo’s connected thermostats help owners cut their utility spend by up to half.
- The average apartment community spends over $90,000 per year on utilities.
- The most efficient communities use less than half of what the least efficient communities use.
- To achieve those results manually would take more than 10,000 trips to vacant units per year to set them to the right settings; that’s almost 200 hours per year, which is why it doesn’t happen.
- Matching the efficiency of the most efficient communities can save your community thousands of hours and between $45 and $60 per month per unit in vacant units, which translates to roughly $40-$50 per unit per year at 93% occupancy.
- In a lease up, the saving are even greater because a much larger proportion of units are vacant and workers are in and out of them more frequently.
Key Enabling Features
thermostat
hub
Mass commands to all vacant units from the web app
Reduce Water Costs
Dwelo’s exclusive integration with NextCentury Meters enables us to instantly read and react to the water flows in vacant units. Built-in algorithms can identify background leaks within minutes and instantly notifies all community staff. Dwelo’s smart meter alerting can catch leaky faucets and toilets, helping identify and stop runaway water costs in vacant units and common areas.
- According to the American Water Works Association, toilets account for more than one quarter of all home water usage.
- An old toilet flapper can waste 200 gallons per day, while a broken one can use up to 96,000 gallons a month! A leaky or running faucet can do the same or worse.
- At national average rates, a running toilet will cost $1/day, while a running faucet can run you more than $10/day.
- With monthly billing, you may not even notice a modest leak or only catch a big one after its cost you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars.
Avoid Water Damage
Dwelo’s smart meter alerting can catch seemingly minor leaks in crawl spaces or utility closets that would otherwise go undetected and cause structural damage and dangerous mold growth.
- A small, but steady leak in the walls can drip for months with no one noticing.
- These sorts of leaks cause structural damage and health risks to the members of your community.
- Untreated mold can force you to relocate residents and even damage your property value at time of sale.
- 98% of all homes will experience water damage in their lifetime and 14,000 water damage incidents occur in US homes per day.
- Catastrophic leaks can occur from faulty plumbing, frozen pipes, or broken appliances.
- The average catastrophic water leak costs $7,000 in single family homes.
- In a multifamily community, the impact is even more profound with residents in the leaking unit as well as neighboring units often being displaced for days or weeks as the damage is repaired.
Key Enabling Features
NextCentury submeter
Notifications