Carnot Innovations

Carnot Innovations Limited develops an AI-based software analytics platform for commercial building HVAC systems. The platform acquires data from existing building management systems (BMS) and remote IoT sensors, stores and annotates trend logs and sensor points, and applies machine learning anomaly detection together with logic-based fault detection to identify and predict maintenance, control-logic and operational defects in chillers, pumps, cooling towers, heat pumps and air handling units. Outputs include data visualization dashboards, prescriptive maintenance notifications and identified energy-efficiency opportunities, which the company frames as AI-enabled continuous commissioning.

A second component is a chiller plant optimization engine that generates optimal setpoints and staging/sequencing logic for chiller plant equipment and writes them back to equipment controllers, automating energy optimization on both the water side and the air side. The company states the software runs in parallel with, rather than overriding or replacing, an existing BMS, and that it is applicable to any site with a chiller plant and BMS. Beyond building performance, Carnot describes work with stakeholders on ESG targets and carbon emissions tracking.

The company was established in 2018 and is headquartered in Hong Kong, initially focusing on fault detection for building management systems before adding AI models for energy optimization control strategies.