{"id":99397,"title":"AICE Power - Sensors to cut energy bill by 30%","tagline":"Clip-on sensors that cut commercial building energy bills by 30% by identifying waste that current systems miss.","body":"Hey everyone,\n\nWe're Remi and Greg (P26) and we're building AICE Power.\n\n**Ask:** Intros to supermarket / retail / fast food operators (EU or US). \\\nBook a demo at \u003chttps://calendar.app.google/DMXD1sKdfzdRsuw99\u003e or email [greg@aicepower.com](mailto:greg@aicepower.com)\n\n### **The problem**\n\nMost large commercial buildings have a Building Management System. In theory, it monitors everything. Yet, the data is so unreliable that problems still slip through. And by the time they're caught, the damage is already done and financial consequences compound quickly.\\\n\\\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/G_x4aWm05Os\u003e\n\n\\\nHere is an example of a major malfunction on a piece of cold equipment (like a freezer), costing $200/day, that could have been avoided with proper monitoring:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=99397\u0026key=user_uploads/2324173/eeedb250-c64f-4844-bb07-a2c4af6b66a7)\n\nMeanwhile, smaller commercial sites (supermarkets, fast food chains, retail stores) have **no monitoring**.\n\n**Why?** \\\nTraditional BMS systems are too expensive, require specialized integrators, and only cover major loads.\n\nThe result: waste hides in plain sight.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=99397\u0026key=user_uploads/2324173/f0363b82-bb2b-4ffb-9241-313060a65a94)\n\n### **What we found**\n\nWhen we started installing our sensors in supermarkets, we discovered something simple:\n\nMore than half the stores keep their lights on all night (yes, as dumb as it sounds), and some are **wasting as much as $1000 per day** with bad HVAC settings. No system is telling them.\n\nNobody knew until our sensors identified the issue, triggering an alert that led to immediate corrective steps.\n\n### **How it works**\n\n**1. Install in \\~30 minutes**\\\nSensors clip directly onto the electrical panel. No wiring, no downtime. One person, done.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=99397\u0026key=user_uploads/2324173/e9ecd039-f9af-4885-89bf-deb62025d342)\n\n**2. See every circuit**\\\nWe collect clean, appliance-level data at the circuit level, every minute. Equipment left on, abnormal loads, gas anomalies, we see it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=99397\u0026key=user_uploads/2324173/211373bf-7056-4653-9b05-0b80dcfe5557)\n\n**3. Get alerted before it costs you**\\\nYou get a notification with context: what’s wrong, how bad, and what to do.\n\n---\n\n### **Results**\n\n**6 months ROI from electricity savings**, because our alerts stop waste nobody knew existed.\n\nThe savings come from simple things: equipment running when it shouldn’t, load imbalances, anomalies that were invisible without granular data.\n\n**The team**\n\nWe’re a team of engineers who realized the energy gap was a hardware problem masquerading as a software one.\n\n**Greg**, a MIT-trained aerospace engineer, former NASA. He spent 2 years in energy consulting seeing firsthand how bad data leads to wasted millions.\n\n**Remi**, an electrical \u0026 embedded systems engineer. Built the sensor system and real-time alerting platform from the ground up because the \"off-the-shelf\" hardware simply wasn't enough.\n\n---\n\n### **Ask**\n\n* Intros to supermarket / retail / fast food operators (EU or US)\n* Feedback from anyone who has dealt with BMS / energy monitoring that didn’t deliver\n\nBook a demo:\\[ [https://calendar.app.google/DMXD1sKdfzdRsuw99\\\\](https://calendar.app.google/DMXD1sKdfzdRsuw99%5C) \\](\u003chttps://calendar.app.google/DMXD1sKdfzdRsuw99)Email\u003e: [greg@aicepower.com](mailto:greg@aicepower.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=99397\u0026key=user_uploads/2324173/e2eb36bb-1daf-4d73-b6e9-6737b695687d)\n\n","slug":"PrB-aice-power-sensors-to-cut-energy-bill-by-30","created_at":"2026-04-03T21:07:00.447Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T04:53:42.507Z","total_vote_count":52,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PrB-aice-power-sensors-to-cut-energy-bill-by-30","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=99397\u0026key=user_uploads/2324173/e2eb36bb-1daf-4d73-b6e9-6737b695687d","company":{"id":31442,"name":"AICE Power","slug":"aice-power","url":"https://aicepower.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/581bc66ce17e1873b4f5c5446cc221ea8275a118.png","batch":"Spring 2026","industry":"Industrials","tags":["Hardware","Swarm AI","Robotics","Drones"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31442"}}