Case overview
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Northeastern University
Company Overview
Northeastern University is a global, experiential research university located in Boston, Massachusetts, with approximately 18,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students. Its urban campus spans dozens of academic, research, and laboratory buildings that operate around the clock, creating significant demands on energy, HVAC, and critical environment management. Northeastern has long been committed to sustainability and was recognized as one of the nation’s top Green Colleges by the Princeton Review.
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Managing energy, lab safety, and building system performance across Northeastern University’s 69+ buildings—operating around the clock in a dense urban campus—left facilities teams without a unified view to prioritize issues or respond quickly. Identifying HVAC and chilled water inefficiencies was difficult without real-time data, research facilities required strict air quality oversight, and Northeastern’s decarbonization commitments demanded actionable, reportable energy metrics.
“FacilityConneX unified our entire campus on a single platform—delivering the real-time visibility we needed to reduce energy costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars, keep our labs safe, and drive meaningful progress toward our sustainability goals.”
Over more than five years, FacilityConneX has connected all 69+ Northeastern buildings into a single Smart Building IoT platform—providing real-time dashboards across electrical, HVAC, and chilled water systems alongside automated lab and air safety alerts for research and science facilities. Fault detection analytics surface control and scheduling inefficiencies before they drive up costs, and automated notifications ensure operations teams respond the moment conditions fall out of range.
The result is hundreds of thousands of dollars in electrical savings, measurably improved HVAC and chilled water performance campus-wide, and the ongoing sustainability data Northeastern needs to support its decarbonization plan—all from a platform recognized alongside one of the nation’s top Green College campuses..
