An existing building isn't a construction site you can reopen at will. Energy regulations are getting stricter, operating costs are climbing, but no one wants to open up the walls to run cables or install a complex IoT system. As a result, many buildings keep running blind, driven by fixed schedules and thermal safety margins set "just in case," with no way of knowing whether rooms are actually occupied.
Orioma addresses this problem without touching the building's structure. Its LOBX sensor, ceiling-mounted and manufactured in France, combines five measurements in a single unit: temperature, presence, people counting, light levels, and abnormal overheating alerts. There's no wiring and no battery to change, since it runs on ambient light energy for 15 years. And it doesn't film anyone: the analysis is done through thermal infrared, with no facial recognition or personal data captured, which simplifies both installation and privacy concerns. The Orioconnect platform then centralizes this data into dashboards and connects to existing systems, BMS, BOS, CMMS, without replacing them.
Proof in practice: at Dracula Technologies, a French deep-tech company, air conditioning ran on fixed schedules with conservative margins, an invisible but very real form of over-cooling. After a gradual approach, establishing a baseline measurement, manual adjustments, then automated regulation, energy consumption dropped by 25% in office areas, with no disruption to activity.
A room's actual occupancy isn't only useful for adjusting heating. It also feeds smart booking: detecting a ghost reservation, automatically releasing a room that wasn't used, displaying real-time availability on a screen or interactive map. This overlaps with fleet supervision in the broader sense. A platform like Morbit Studio, already mentioned for multi-brand management, also covers this occupancy and booking layer. The two approaches complement each other naturally: Orioma's sensors provide the raw physical data (temperature, presence, counting), and a platform like Morbit Studio uses it alongside the IT and AV data it already supervises. The software and the sensor work together rather than replacing one another.
This kind of result, between 25% and 30% in savings without heavy renovation and without compromising comfort, is exactly what convinced us to distribute Orioma: a pragmatic, privacy-respecting solution, designed for real-world constraints rather than an ideal construction project.
