In Espoo, Finland, the Adjutantti apartment complex was designed as a blueprint for the future of urban resource management. While many buildings claim to be “smart,” Adjutantti was built to be aware.
To achieve this, the project integrated BaseN Platform to provide the telemetry required to move beyond simple automation and into the realm of true resource optimization.
The Visibility Factor: Cutting Consumption by 15%
The premise at Adjutantti was simple but powerful: you cannot manage what you cannot see. By monitoring water, heating, and electricity consumption at a granular level, BaseN Platform provided residents with real-time feedback on their environmental footprint.
The results were immediate. With the ability to see the their own resource usage, residents were empowered to make informed decisions, leading to a 15% reduction in total consumption without sacrificing comfort. This wasn’t achieved through forced restrictions, but through the clarity provided by constant situational awareness.
Building a Permanent Digital History
Just as we saw with VolkerWessels, the data at Adjutantti isn’t a temporary snapshot. Every liter of water and every kilowatt-hour has been recorded since the moment of commissioning.
- Identifying Inefficiency: If a specific wing of the building begins to show an unexplained spike in heat loss, engineers don’t have to guess. They can perform a retrospective analysis against the initial baseline to determine if the issue is a mechanical failure in the HVAC system or a change in resident behavior.
- Long-Term Performance: By maintaining an unbroken data history, the building’s management can prove the long-term ROI of energy-saving investments, ensuring that the building remains as efficient in Year 10 as it was on Day 1.
The Sovereign Edge
Adjutantti serves as a prime example of why sovereignty matters in the built environment. Because the building’s nervous system runs on BaseN Platform, the data belongs to the stakeholders, not a distant cloud provider. The stability of the digital twin is guaranteed, ensuring that “Smart Living” isn’t a feature that disappears with a software update, but a permanent asset of the physical property.
Coming up next in our series: We look at Smart Kalasatama, where we scale these principles from a single building to a 100% mission-critical smart district.
