Recogizer celebrates 10 years: The ultimate discipline of efficient building operation

Excellent technology and extremely satisfied customers: The demand for Recogizer’s decarbonization solution is skyrocketing.

Recogizer is celebrating its tenth anniversary in April. The solutions provider for automated energy and emission savings is on a steep growth trajectory and has established itself as a technological leader in the field of AI-assisted predictive control of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in commercial buildings.

Recogizer started as a two-person show back in 2014 and now has 45 employees who manage 3.8 million square meters of building area. The individual floor areas of the respective buildings range from 5,000 to 180,000 square meters. Recogizer supervises projects in seven European countries, including corporate headquarters, large-scale office blocks, skyscrapers, international banks, and buildings of major chain stores.

With an average energy consumption reduction of 28 percent, ten years of experience, and excellent customer satisfaction, Recogizer has evolved into a reliable partner for the real estate industry on its journey toward efficient, digital, comfortable, and sustainable buildings that retain their value.

Right from the start, Recogizer chose the most technologically challenging path for solutions providers in order to make reducing emissions in building operation, saving costs, and improving the indoor climate as easy, inexpensive, and safe as possible for its customers.

"Providing high-performance and safe predictive control is the ultimate discipline in digital and sustainable building operation", says Carsten Kreutze, CEO of Recogizer. "There is no other measure that offers such great potential for reducing consumption while keeping the effort and costs for the building owners and operators low."

In hundreds of buildings in the office, retail, hotel, educational establishments, and industry asset classes, Recogizer has proven that the solution it offers is effective, safe, and can be rolled out for portfolios containing a large number of buildings. For an increasing number of real estate companies, AI-assisted control is becoming the standard method on the journey toward buildings that are energy-efficient and emission-free in the medium to long term.

The decision in favor of using predictive control is made easier by the fact that it can be universally combined with other energy transformation methods and integrated seamlessly in almost every decarbonization strategy.

In the course of the last few years, it has become clear that Recogizer chose to focus on the right products and services that are in demand among the customers:

• The large savings are achieved automatically, i.e. without any manual effort during operations. Reliable proof of these savings is provided for customer reporting and complete cost/benefit transparency. Recogizer’s customers are assured that the goals they defined will be achieved in euros and tonnes of CO₂ saved.
• No savings are generated at the expense of the indoor climate. Most of Recogizer’s customers consider excellent user comfort to be a top priority.
• All customers benefit from a large team of engineers specialized in the operation of HVAC systems, extensive system and operations monitoring, and an improved state of health of their systems.

AI-assisted predictive control is a complex process that – when implemented properly and with excellent technology – serves as a way to decarbonize buildings that is quick to implement, safe and whose short payback period is hard to beat.

Recogizer has implemented numerous projects together with all leading building automation and facility management service providers and works closely with companies such as Apleona, Kieback&Peter, Susteco, Quantrefy, and Schneider Electric. Recogizer is driving the active expansion of partnerships and highlights the importance of collaboration for the successful transformation toward sustainability in the real estate industry.

The last ten years have demonstrated clearly that Recogizer chose the right path. The demand for measurably effective decarbonization solutions that can be implemented quickly is rising exponentially and there is still a lot more demand.

"The current situation is characterized by a concurrence that is contradictory in a way," says Carsten Kreutze. "On the one hand, all real estate companies have recognized the necessity of the energy transformation and have a great demand for good solutions. On the other hand, the roll-out of smart meters and the digital provision of energy consumption data, for example, are taking a surprisingly long time. I encourage you: If you actively create the necessary conditions for the successful implementation of our predictive control, you will be surprised how much energy you can save within a short space of time."

Recogizer’s vision remains unchanged even after ten years: The green-tech company assists real estate owners and operators in the DACH region and throughout Europe with decarbonizing their portfolios, retaining value, and securing the ecological and economic foundation for a great future.