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Chillers run blind, the BMS is dumb
Most plants idle at 0.85–1.1 kW/RT — 30–40% above best-in-class 0.55 kW/RT. Fixed setpoints, poor ΔT, rule-based controls that never adapt.
Live on commercial plants · Singapore & Kuala Lumpur
AI-optimized control for the world's chiller plants.
One reinforcement-learned cooling brain, two deployment surfaces. Live today on commercial plants across Singapore and Malaysia — cutting energy 10–17% with M&V-audited savings.
LIVE Kelvix Control — commercial chiller plants
IN DEV Kelvix Split — light commercial AC
0%
verified kWh reduction on live plants
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saved per year across reference plants
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continuous operating history
0
avoided per year, and counting
The Problem
Cooling is SEA's largest, dumbest energy load.
30–40%
of Southeast Asia's commercial power goes to cooling
Chiller plants alone account for 60–70% of that load in commercial real estate — yet most run on control logic from the 1990s.
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Light commercial has no tooling at all
500k+ SMEs across SG+MY — kopitiams, F&B chains, clinics, salons, strata offices — run split AC with no telemetry, no scheduling, no fault detection. Bills inflated 20–40%.
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Net-zero pressure is now mandatory
BCA Green Mark 2021, MAS climate disclosures, Malaysia EECA 2024, Bursa Sustainability — operators must measurably cut kWh and tCO₂e by 2030.
Sources: IEA Future of Cooling 2024 · BCA energy benchmarks · EMA Singapore Energy Statistics.
The Solution
One AI cooling brain. Two deployment surfaces.
The Kelvix Engine — a single reinforcement-learned control engine for setpoint, scheduling, sequencing and fault models — calibrated continuously against tropical-climate cooling loads from every Kelvix-managed asset.
The Kelvix
Engine
Engine
Kelvix Control
LIVEClosed-loop AI for commercial chiller plants
Flagship product, deployed today. Optimal setpoint, sequencing and reset across compressors, pumps and cooling towers. 10–17% kWh reduction with M&V-audited savings under IPMVP Option C.
Kelvix Split
IN DEVLight commercial split AC optimization
Same AI engine, ported to a $50 IR / Modbus controller for kopitiams, F&B, clinics, retail and strata offices. Fleet SaaS for property managers — sharing one data backbone with the chiller product.
Kelvix Control runs live on Trane, Carrier, York, Daikin and Dunham Bush plants — vendor-agnostic optimization written straight back to the BMS.
Why Now
Four forces are converging in SEA — right now.
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Johor + SG data-center boom
Singapore's DC moratorium lifted with green requirements (PUE ≤ 1.3). Equinix, GDS, YTL, NTT and K2 are building 2+ GW of IT load in Johor by 2028 — all cooling-bound.
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Regulation just got real
BCA Green Mark 2021 mandatory benchmarking, EECA Malaysia 2024, MAS TCFD-aligned climate disclosure, Bursa CSRD reporting.
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Cooling-control ML is now ready
Phaidra, BrainBox AI and DeepMind-on-Google-DC have validated RL for HVAC in production. Time-series foundation models, BACnet parsing and physics-informed nets exist off the shelf.
04
Refrigerant + heat compounding
Kigali HFC phase-down and rising wet-bulb temps degrade chiller efficiency structurally every year. SEA tariffs are up 20–40% since 2022. Doing nothing gets worse, not flat.
How Kelvix Control Works
Sense the plant. Decide every five seconds. Verify the savings.
01 · Sense
Telemetry & sensors
BACnet / Modbus / OPC-UA tap on the chiller plant plus RHT sensors on supply/return air. 5-second sample rate captures load, weather, occupancy and plant state.
02 · Decide
The Kelvix Engine
An RL agent trained on tropical cooling loads predicts plant load 30 minutes ahead and solves for minimum kWh/RT — subject to comfort and equipment constraints.
03 · Control
Plant write-back
Writes optimal CHWST / CWST / staging / sequencing to the BMS. Modulates compressor FLA, chiller cycling, pump and cooling-tower fan VFDs every cycle.
04 · Verify
M&V savings ledger
IPMVP Option C baseline. A monthly audited report shows kWh saved, $-equivalent and tCO₂e avoided. Performance-share invoiced against the verified ledger.
Why It Matters
Cooling is the biggest line item you can actually cut.
No new chillers, no downtime, no capex. The savings are already sitting in your plant — locked up in setpoints and sequencing that haven't changed in years.
30–40%
of a typical commercial building's power goes to cooling — and chiller plants are 60–70% of that. Every point of efficiency is money straight off the bill.
0.55 kW/RT
Best-in-class efficiency. Most plants idle at 0.85–1.1 kW/RT — 30–40% higher. That gap is a controls problem, not a hardware one, so it's recoverable now.
Mandatory
BCA Green Mark, MAS climate disclosure, Malaysia EECA and Bursa reporting require measurable kWh and tCO₂e cuts. Kelvix hands you an audited ledger to prove them.
Where Kelvix runs
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Commercial & strata offices
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Retail malls & F&B chains
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Hotels & hospitals
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Data centers (SG + JB)
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Factories & wafer fabs
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District cooling networks
Sources: IEA Future of Cooling 2024 · BCA energy benchmarks · EMA Singapore Energy Statistics 2024.
Reference Deployments
Live plants. Verified savings. Multi-year operating data.
Reference plants operated by the Kelvix team under prior chiller-optimization work in Malaysia — same AI engine, same M&V methodology. Multi-year data available on request under NDA.
TNB Jalan Timur
- Scope
- Comfort cooling · Trane + Dunham Bush · 500 / 1,260 / 2,800 RT
- Deal
- Live since June 2018 (expansions 2022, 2024)
- Result
- 15% avg savings · 76 MWh/yr · 53 tCO₂e/yr
- Status
- Independently verified by UNITEN
Computime Electronics Factory
- Scope
- Process cooling 24/7 · Trane / Daikin / York / Carrier · 800–1,550 RT
- Deal
- Live since Dec 2020 (expansion March 2024)
- Result
- 10% avg savings · 54 MWh/yr · 38 tCO₂e/yr
- Status
- Stabilised after month 6; finance-validated
MIMOS Wafer Fab
- Scope
- Wafer fab process cooling 24/7 · York / Carrier · 1,550 RT (800 RT duty)
- Deal
- Live since Dec 2020
- Result
- 16.3% YTD avg · 10–15% monthly savings
- Status
- Consistent record over 5+ years
10–17%verified kWh reduction
≈130 MWhsaved per year
90 tCO₂eavoided per year
6 yr+continuous operating history
Team
Cooling expertise meets infrastructure execution.
N
Nivashini
Co-founder & CEO · Chief Cooling Officer
Nivashini has spent her career inside plant rooms and facilities — watching, up close, how much energy gets wasted. Chillers running at part-load 80% of the time. Plants oversized by 40% on day one. Setpoints nobody has touched in years.
That waste is personal. Kelvix is what she's spent a decade preparing to build: the AI brain that finally treats cooling like the engineering problem it is.
Cooling systemsChiller opsAuditingM&V
T
Thani
Co-founder & CTO
Civil + Environmental Engineering with years on global infrastructure across APAC and the Middle East. 17+ years of chiller-optimization deployments across Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand — 50M sqft under management, 60+ client portfolio, third-party audited (UNITEN).
He's the systems and execution leader: shipping software that lives inside live mechanical plants and hardening it for legacy BACnet, contractor handovers and 25-year asset life.
17+ yrs cooling50M sqftBACnet/ModbusField at scale
Vision
The control layer for tropical cooling.
Every chiller plant in APAC, today. Every split AC and district network, next.
1.2 GW
tropical cooling under management by 2031
1.4 TWh
kWh saved per year at scale (≈ 720k tCO₂e)
10–17%
verified energy cut on every live plant
Let's talk.
Cut your cooling energy 10–17% with M&V-audited savings — paid from what you save. Building operators, property managers and partners: book a 30-day proof-of-value.