What is a NexRev AI agent?

NexRev’s AI agents (think of agents as the windows through which you can interact directly with the EMS/BMS) serve as a data analyst focused on the management of your entire portfolio’s energy consumption, utilities, and devices.

The AI agents are resource multipliers for your team; they complement your existing skills, and enable conversational interaction with the data already being captured by your NexRev Freedom Enterprise. These AI agents allow you to quickly and easily get the exact information and insights you need at any moment. The interaction is simple as agents understand your questions and deliver appropriate responses.

What can you ask an AI agent?

What, exactly, can you ask a NexRev AI agent? Here are some examples of questions you may want the answers to:

1. Can I get a data-driven projection of my facility’s monthly and annual energy usage for the coming 12 months incorporating historical consumption, seasonality, and expected operational changes, to enable me to budget proactively and plan resources with confidence?

2. Can you give me a comprehensive overview of my building’s current energy profile, including usage patterns, peak demand periods, cost breakdowns, and identification of operational inefficiencies? Can you also highlight immediate areas for improvement and strategic recommendations for ongoing optimization?

3. Look at the site information I have shared with you. Please summarize this information and provide back your expert insights with regards to Energy usage, overall site performance and any other relevant insights you can ascertain from this data. Also augment your response by looking at the ASHRAE Zone this building is in and provide your feedback and recommendations based on that.

And what can it tell you?

If you ask for a site summary with detailed analysis, as in the third example above, the agent will return a comprehensive overview of your building or site’s current energy profile, including usage patterns, peak demand periods, cost breakdowns, and identification of operational inefficiencies. Insights are provided to highlight immediate areas for improvement and strategic recommendations for ongoing optimization.

If you ask for a detailed peer analysis, the AI agent would return an in-depth comparative study evaluating your facility's energy performance against similar sites within your portfolio or industry peers. This would identify relative strengths and weaknesses, revealing best-in-class operational standards and underperforming areas that require attention.

A response to the first question in the previous section, would deliver a professional, data-driven projection of your facility’s monthly and annual energy usage for the coming 12 months. This would incorporate historical consumption, seasonality, and expected operational changes, thereby enabling the proactive budgeting and resource planning for which you requested support.

What sort of recommendations for action might you expect from your questions to NexRev AI? These recommendations can be for one site, or for your entire portfolio. For example:

1. Optimized HVAC Schedules: Sites 5, 7, and 356 can benefit from aligning equipment schedules with occupancy and customer traffic—minimize HVAC runtime outside core hours.
2. Evaluate/Reduce Lighting Schedules: Sites 3 through 156 can benefit from adjusting exterior lighting from 24/7 operation to dusk-to-dawn or sensor-based controls. Implement LED retrofits if not already present.
3. Other analysis for your sites can include recommendations for:
   1. Commission Controls for Humidity Management: In ASHRAE 2A, high humidity drives up cooling costs. Consider controls for demand-based dehumidification and tighter integration with economizer logic.
   2. Conduct Targeted Retrofits: Replace older HVAC or lighting units with ENERGY STAR® or advanced models where feasible; insulate key envelope areas exposed to solar gain.
   3. Employee Awareness & Engagement: Provide training on night/afterhours shutdown routines and reportable energy waste (doors, lights, plug loads, etc.).
   4. Explore Renewable Integration: Investigate the ROI for rooftop solar or PPAs in the ERCT grid region to offset high daytime demand.
   5. Regular Maintenance: Maintain regular HVAC coil cleanings, sensor calibrations, and control setpoint checks to ensure continuous optimal operation.

Responses to all queries are available as clearly presented reports which you can easily export – and are retained by the system. The AI agents can be accessed by both web and mobile interfaces so that they are always accessible.

NexRev’s AI agents are initially trained by our own Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) and then learn directly from interacting with your Portfolio and team. There are multiple agents, each with a different knowledge base. Agents are trained for specific tasks, and, they have ‘guardrails’ – which means they can’t answer questions outside their domain making them very focused, secure, and highly expert.

The AI agents will also help you refine your questions, using their expertise and specialization to focus the conversation and get you to the right answers.

Agent conversations are retained and fully contextualized which means that, if your team members move on to new responsibilities, or you onboard new hires, the knowledge accumulated remains in place – accelerating staff training and building a living repository of knowledge for your business.

The future is here, and NexRev’s AI innovations are tuned to the needs of your business and the conversational history of what matters to your operations. Would you like to know more?

Optimize with NexRev

NexRev is the leading provider of cloud-based, multi-site energy management systems, backed by AI and delivered by SaaS models, that help businesses eliminate energy waste and reduce costs. 

Our innovative Freedom™ EMS/BMS solution brings process-driven intelligence and AI to facilities management, providing complete remote control and centralized visibility of your energy-consuming devices across complex, nationwide property portfolios for leading brands in retail, theatres, restaurants, commercial, and industrial facilities.

With NexRev Freedom, our customers reduce waste, optimize energy management, and generate permanent cost savings by making the right decisions. 

To begin a discussion on how we can help you to reduce energy costs and waste please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.