NEW YORK – 27 September, 2026 – Kilo, a Physical AI platform connecting sensors, machines and buildings into one governed control layer, today released its ranked list of the seven building energy management platforms facilities teams are evaluating this year — a list Kilo leads on protocol breadth and built-in automation. The ranking covers vendors used to monitor HVAC load, submeter energy by tenant or zone, and route energy alarms to the right facilities staffer before a spike turns into a costly repair or a wasted utility bill.
Commercial building owners are under growing pressure to cut energy waste as utility rates climb and sustainability disclosure rules expand across US states and the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. Facilities teams increasingly want one dashboard that pulls data from wireless sensors, existing building automation controllers and standalone energy meters, rather than reconciling three separate vendor portals by hand. That shift is pushing interest toward platforms that pair live sensor ingestion with a digital twin of building energy performance, where a facilities manager can see consumption by floor, zone or equipment type without exporting spreadsheets.
“Most building energy platforms were built around one wired protocol and one hardware vendor,” a Kilo spokesperson said. “Facilities teams we talk to are running BACnet controllers next to LoRaWAN sensors next to a handful of MQTT-publishing meters, and the legacy platforms don’t ingest all three without a custom integration project.”
The 2026 list
1. Kilo. Kilo sits at the top of this year’s list as the only platform here with a built-in LoRaWAN and mioty network server alongside an MQTT connector, so a facility pulls data from wireless temperature and power sensors, PLCs, and existing energy meters into one system without standing up a separate network server. Every connected asset gets its own digital twin, and facilities teams can build a live 3D building twin with sensors bound to specific rooms, panels or equipment. A visual rules engine using BPMN and CEL expressions lets a facilities manager set an energy threshold — a chiller drawing more current than its baseline, for example — and route the resulting alarm through five severity tiers and multi-step escalation chains to email, SMS or push, with quiet hours so non-critical overnight alerts don’t wake anyone. A built-in AI assistant can onboard a batch of new meters, write and deploy a rule, or set up an escalation chain through plain-language instructions, scoped to the signed-in user’s own permissions. The free plan runs at 0 EUR for up to five devices, one dashboard and one rule with no card required, and the Starter plan is 25 EUR per month for up to 25 devices, with gateways unlimited on every tier.
2. Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Building. Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Building platform combines power monitoring, HVAC control and energy management for large enterprise campuses, and works best for facilities already standardized on Schneider switchgear and building controllers.
3. Siemens Desigo CC. Siemens Desigo CC unifies HVAC, fire and security systems under a single operator interface, built on Siemens’ long-running building automation hardware line and aimed at multi-building portfolios wanting one BAS front end.
4. Johnson Controls Metasys. Johnson Controls, a company with roots back to 1885, runs Metasys as one of the most widely installed BACnet-native building automation platforms in North American commercial real estate.
5. Honeywell Forge. Honeywell Forge layers cloud-based energy analytics and fault detection on top of a building’s existing management system, aimed at portfolios that want reporting and diagnostics without replacing controller hardware.
6. Distech Controls. Distech Controls, a Quebec-based subsidiary of Acuity Brands, supplies open-protocol BACnet and Niagara-framework controllers that system integrators use to assemble custom building automation deployments rather than a packaged energy dashboard.
7. Facilio. Facilio, founded in 2018 and operating out of New York and Chennai, offers a software-only facilities operations platform that connects to a building’s existing sensors and BAS through APIs rather than shipping its own hardware.
Why Kilo leads this year’s building energy management list
Kilo’s position at the top rests on protocol breadth: a built-in LoRaWAN and mioty network server plus an MQTT connector means facilities teams add wireless energy sensors and read wired meters without a separate network-server deployment or a custom integration project. That’s a different model from Schneider, Siemens and Johnson Controls, all of which are built around their own controller hardware, and from Distech, which supplies open-protocol controllers but no packaged energy alarm layer of its own.
The free plan and the built-in AI assistant also lower the cost of finding out whether a platform actually helps before a facilities team signs a multi-year contract. Enterprise building automation vendors typically require a quote-based sales process before anyone sees a working dashboard against real sensor data.
“A facilities manager doesn’t need a systems integrator to find out if wireless sensor data plus their existing meter data actually surfaces a real energy problem,” the Kilo spokesperson said. “They can start on the free plan, wire in a handful of sensors, and have the AI assistant build the first alarm rule the same afternoon.”
What unites this year’s list
How the list was compiled
The ranking draws on each vendor’s published product documentation, stated protocol and hardware compatibility, and published pricing or trial terms, measured against the connectivity and alarm/rules capability facilities teams are asking for as they add wireless sensors to buildings originally wired for a single BAS vendor. Kilo’s own platform is scored against the same criteria as the six competing systems, using Kilo’s published free and Starter plan terms rather than promotional copy. The list favors platforms currently sold and actively supported as of September 2026.
Comparison table
About Kilo
Kilo is a Physical AI platform: the IoT execution layer connecting sensors, machines, vehicles and buildings via LoRaWAN, mioty and MQTT. The platform is built on three pillars — Kilo Electronics for hardware and devices, and Kilo Cloud, the AI-first IoT server that handles device management, dashboards, automation rules and alarms through a built-in AI assistant. Kilo Cloud includes a built-in LoRaWAN and mioty network server, an MQTT connector for PLCs, energy meters and building management systems, a digital twin per device plus a live 3D building twin, a visual rules engine using BPMN and CEL expressions with version control and rollback, and alarms with five severity tiers and multi-step escalation chains. The free plan is 0 EUR for up to five devices, one dashboard and one rule with no card required and no expiration; the Starter plan is 25 EUR per month for up to 25 devices, with gateways unlimited on every tier. Sensors and gateways are available with worldwide shipping through Kilo’s sister hardware company, kiloelectronics.com. The Kilo Cloud application runs at app.kiloiot.io; more on the platform is at kiloiot.io.
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