Turntide for Buildings (under Turntide’s Technology for Sustainable Operations) is a full solution from Turntide to help organizations accelerate their path to sustainable operations in how they operate their buildings, with an open architecture of cloud insights, edge automation, and smart motors.

Turntide for Buildings (under Turntide’s Technology for Sustainable Operations) is a full solution from Turntide to help organizations accelerate their path to sustainable operations in how they operate their buildings, with an open architecture of cloud insights, edge automation, and smart motors.

Turntide for Buildings is for building owners within commercial and light industrial sectors, including (but not limited to) banks, quick service restaurants, warehouses, retail, grocery, and automotive.

Turntide’s solution contains a layer of building management, but comprises an end-to-end solution to help businesses monitor, control, and manage a variety of building devices and equipment including HVAC, lighting, metering, and more.

Turntide’s solution contains a layer of building management, but comprises an end-to-end solution to help businesses monitor, control, and manage a variety of building devices and equipment including HVAC, lighting, metering, and more.

Many BMS systems lack cross-platform connectivity and compatibility. Turntide connects an entire fleet of buildings running on different BMS systems, streamlining multi-site portfolio management to effectively manage executive, regional, and equipment-level KPIs.

Energy savings will ultimately depend on various operational and environmental factors in the building. However, Turntide Smart Building can be expected to provide significant energy savings across multiple dimensions. Turntide motors have saved businesses an average of 64% on HVAC energy consumption compared to a baseline. Savings from operational insights vary widely, but some customers have seen 15-20% savings through insights generated from the Turntide app.

Turntide’s application can be used to monitor and control building equipment such as HVAC, lighting, meters, and more. The application supports the ability to view data, change settings, manage schedules, troubleshoot issues, and set notifications.

Turntide’s application currently supports customers in all building types – from offices, schools, healthcare, greenhouses, sports facilities, multi-family, and more.

Turntide’s solution consists of edge hardware (located on-premise), Turntide Cloud, and Turntide App (accessible over a standard web browser or mobile app).  It is a native cloud application and does not require installation of special software, database licenses, or additional servers. Turntide offers 3rd party devices such as thermostats, sensors, meters, and controllers as needed.

Turntide can integrate with a variety of BMS systems using open standard protocols (BACnet and Modbus) and select proprietary protocols.

Turntide can integrate with a variety of devices, equipment, subsystems, and systems. The most common devices are sensors, HVAC, lighting, meters, and other building equipment.

Turntide data is secured through a variety of measures, including DDoS protection and network encryption.

The security of your business data is important. At the end of the term, the customer owns the data; data always remains your property.

The Turntide Smart Motor System is Turntide’s breakthrough sustainability technology solution for built environments. Through breakthrough innovations to legacy motor technology, the Turntide Smart Motor System helps drive down HVAC energy consumption and operating costs, creating a path to 100% renewable energy and more successful businesses.

The Turntide Smart Motor System is designed for built environments such as buildings and is intended to be a simple drop-in replacement to existing motors used in HVAC, such as blower fans in rooftop units (RTUs).

Throughout the 20th century, switched reluctance motors had been unable to commercialize into a mainstream motor technology due to its performance limitations. This limited its application to high-reliability industrial use cases such as nuclear energy.

However, this all changed in 2003, when Piyush Desai (one of Turntide’s co-founders) investigated switched reluctance motor technology for his Ph.D. thesis. He developed the world’s first high-rotor pole switched reluctance motor (HR-SRM), which increases the number of rotor poles within the motor design to achieve higher torque and efficiency. Since Turntide’s founding in 2013, Turntide has made further improvements to the performance of HR-SRM, reducing torque ripple, noise, and vibrations, while increasing motor torque and efficiency. Turntide has also further improved the efficiency of switched reluctance motors through patented control algorithms running on the Turntide motor controller, switching current on and off rapidly up to 20,000 times per second.

These mechanical and algorithmic advantages, developed over years of intensive research from Turntide’s R&D team, make Turntide motors optimally efficient, providing a winning combination of efficiency, reliability, and connectivity.

Turntide’s customers have slashed their HVAC energy consumption by an average of ~64%, which provides immediate energy savings for an investment that will pay for itself. Actual savings depend on factors such as an RTU’s operating environment and run conditions.

Currently, Turntide offers motors in the 1 – 10 HP range

Contact Turntide Sales or visit our website to learn more about the solutions available to you. Turntide will provide expert advice and guidance on sustainable Smart Building solutions and will design a customized solution for your business strategy.

Availability varies by country/region. However, Turntide solutions are generally available in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and some regions in the EU.

Technical support documentation can be found at www.turntideacademy.com.

The Turntide web application is always updated to the latest version. For the Turntide app, check the App Store or Google Play store for updates.

Technical support documentation can be found at www.turntideacademy.com. If your issue is not covered, please send us an email at support@turntide.com, or call us at 877-778-8470 (available M-F between 7 am – 9 pm EST).