Don’t just report it. Fix it.
BB101 tells you what’s wrong with your school. Planetic does something about it — quietly, automatically, every day.
One platform. Three things to care about.
Whether you hold the budget, run the school, or specify the kit — the answer is the same. Pick your view.
Budget & energy
Heating is your single biggest energy line. Sites we surveyed were over-heating empty rooms by up to 45%. Planetic pays for itself in the first year on most schools — usually faster — and frees up budget the bursar can actually plan around.
Standards identify problems. They don’t solve them.
Every UK school has been measured against a standard. The standards are good. The follow-through almost never happens.
Identify
Sensors and surveys flag the issue. The classroom hits 1,400 ppm CO₂. The boiler ran all weekend. A void flat sits at 6°C.
Report
It goes in a dashboard. Maybe a PDF. Maybe a quarterly meeting. Someone nods. Nothing changes.
Repeat
Same readings next month. Same nodding. Same bill at year-end. The standard is met on paper, never on site.
We do steps one and two like everyone else. Then we do the bit nobody else does. We fix it.
One small device. One half-hour install. No rip-out.
Your timeclock stays. Your boiler stays. Your warranty stays. We sit alongside — controlling when the boiler is allowed to fire, based on what the building is actually doing.
Reliable relays. Not cheap and rubbish.
We don't compromise on the kit that touches the boiler. Industrial-grade, certified, designed to outlast the buildings they sit in.
Wired in series with your timeclock.
A qualified electrician fits it in under 30 minutes. Compliant. Reversible. No void warranties, no chasing manufacturers.
Automatic failover.
If the LoRaWAN ever drops, the existing timeclock takes over instantly. Your school never loses heating because we lost a signal.
Manual override on the front face.
A caretaker can hit BOOST for 15 minutes when they need to. Front-of-box button. Big and obvious. Logged automatically.
“It heats when needed. It stays above dew point when it’s not.”
The whole job, in one sentence.
You set the policy. The orchestration layer runs it.
No code. No clipboards. No “I’ll get the BMS guy out next week.” Plain-English rules, written with you on the day of the survey, edited from the dashboard whenever they need to change.
“Only allow heating when there are people in the building.”
Saturday morning lettings? Yes. Empty over half-term? No. The system knows the difference because the sensors tell it.
“Bring classrooms to 19°C by the time the first lesson starts.”
Pre-warm time changes with outside temperature. A cold January morning needs more lead time than a mild October one. The system works it out.
“Keep this property above dew point. Nothing more.”
Empty buildings don't need 18°C. They need to not grow mould. Frost-protection only when needed, off the rest of the time.
“Exam day in Hall 2 — pre-warm from 06:00.”
Calendar-aware. INSET days, exams, parents' evenings, lettings. One-click overrides, automatically reverted when the day ends.
Above dew point, always.
The single most-asked-for feature from housing associations and FM teams. When a building isn’t occupied, the system holds it just warm enough to prevent condensation — the moment damp and mould get started. Fabric protected. HHSRS hazards prevented. Energy spent on the smallest possible margin.
Victorian school. 1970s mobile. 2010s academy. Same platform.
Every building heats up and cools down differently. The orchestration layer learns yours — the way it actually behaves, not the way a spec sheet says it should.
Victorian solid wall
High thermal mass. Slow to warm, slow to cool. Loves a long, low pre-warm and benefits enormously from setback rather than off.
System-built / mobile
Low mass, leaky envelope. Fast response but loses heat just as fast. Frequent short bursts work better than one long heat-up.
Modern academy
Tight envelope, often over-heats by mid-morning. Solar gain and body heat do most of the work. Heat barely needed once the day starts.
We don’t ask you to know any of this. The platform learns your building from its own sensor data, in the background, and uses what it learns to tune the rules. Talk to us if you’d like the technical detail.
We’ve measured this. We can show you the numbers.
Across thousands of classrooms and hundreds of monitored sites, the same pattern keeps appearing.
Average overheating found across surveyed schools before control was added. The biggest single saving opportunity in any estate.
Real reading from a real school. Windows open in January because nobody could turn the heating down. We found it by listening to the sensors.
One qualified electrician. One small box. No rip-out, no chasing wires, no committee meetings about who owns what.
Stop measuring. Start fixing.
A 30-minute call. A free survey of one of your sites. A clear payback number for your finance team before you commit to anything.