Multi-Tenant / Commercial Real Estate
$50,000 recovered is $714,000 of asset value. Here is the arithmetic.
Recovered utility expense flows dollar-for-dollar to net operating income, and net operating income capitalises. The only inputs are your own recovery delta and your own cap rate — which is why this survives diligence and why it does not need anybody else's case study.
Beyond kilowatt-hours: automated tenant billing recovers your true cost from submeter data — accurate, itemized and defensible. And the arithmetic is costed, not asserted: a $25,000 annual recovery delta on a 20-tenant building capitalises to $357,000 at a 7% cap rate, against a $30,000–$40,000 one-time metering spend with the installing partner. There is no strong independent ROI study for commercial submetering, so we run that arithmetic on your own twelve months of statements before any hardware is ordered — and if the delta does not support it, that is the answer.
The problem
Utility cost gets allocated by square footage or by a manual read typed into a spreadsheet. Heavy users are subsidised by light ones. A tenant disputes a line and it takes two days to answer because the reads live in three versions of the same file. Recovery arrives 30 to 45 days after the billing period closes. And plug and process load — about a third of an office building's energy, projected up 49% by 2030 — is precisely the load that square-footage allocation misprices, so the gap widens every year on its own.
Costing the claim: does cost recovery alone pay for the platform?
The brief this site was rebuilt from insisted this claim be costed, not asserted. So here is the full arithmetic, with the assumptions exposed.
The hardware side, which is not an OptimizeOS line item
Metering hardware is supplied and installed through the certified partner and quoted separately from the subscription; OptimizeOS sells software only. Billing-grade metering runs roughly $1,500–$2,000 per submeter installed on a tenant boundary. A 20-tenant building is therefore a $30,000–$40,000 one-time hardware and installation spend with the partner. Insight-grade sensors on house and common-area loads are roughly an order of magnitude cheaper per point and are not part of the billing chain.
The software side
OptimizeOS is priced per site plus per monitored point, with no per-seat charge, against a BMS reference range of $2.50–$8.00 per square foot.
The recovery side
The recovery delta is the number that decides the case, and it is specific to the building. It is the difference between what the current allocation method recovers and what metered actual consumption would recover, plus the leakage from missed reads and stale meter constants. It is computable in an afternoon from twelve months of statements and the current allocation schedule.
What that means
If the recovery delta on a 20-tenant building is $25,000 a year, the capitalised value of that same $25,000 is $357,000 at a 7% cap rate — roughly nine to twelve times the entire hardware spend, arriving as valuation rather than as savings.
The honest caveat, stated on the page
There is no strong independent ROI study for commercial submetering. OptimizeOS does not quote one and does not borrow a vendor case study to stand in for one. What it offers is the arithmetic above run on the building's own documents, before any hardware is ordered — and if the recovery delta does not support it, that is the answer.
What OptimizeOS does for multi-tenant / commercial real estate
Platform capabilities mapped to the outcomes this market actually gets paid for.
Tenant billing & cost recovery
Automated per-tenant bills using fixed-rate, cost-recovery or per-line multi-rate methods, generated from validated meter data.
Submetering by unit and line
Assign meters and circuits to tenants and spaces so every kilowatt lands on the right invoice.
Power quality per tenant
Show voltage and power factor at the tenant's own service. Note that self-powered wireless CTs are used downstream for insight only, never on a billing boundary — GSA measured 7% average energy error on that sensor class.
Portfolio benchmarking
Compare cost and consumption across buildings to find the properties eroding NOI.
Anomalous usage alerts
Flag a tenant running 24/7 equipment or a common-area load that never shuts off, before the month closes.
Auditable records
Every invoice traces back to raw interval data, with gap detection so estimates are the exception.
A day in the life: the suite that never sleeps
A representative scenario of the platform catching a real issue in this facility type.
- Mon 21:00
Suite 210's load stays at daytime levels long after the building empties.
- Mon 21:05
An anomalous-usage alert reaches the property manager.
- Tue 09:00
The tenant's new server rack and supplemental cooling show up plainly in the trend.
- Tue 11:00
Their rate plan is updated to a per-line multi-rate method with the added load metered.
- Month end
The invoice generates automatically — no spreadsheet, no argument.
Market and programme data, not customer results. Sources are named on each figure.
Who installs it
Metering hardware is supplied and installed by the certified partner and quoted separately from the subscription — OptimizeOS sells software only. Billing-grade metering runs roughly $1,500–$2,000 per submeter installed on a tenant boundary; a 20-tenant building is a $30,000–$40,000 one-time spend with the partner.