INDUSTRIES / MULTIFAMILY HOUSING

Unit-level submetering for multifamily.

Recover tenant energy costs, support ENERGY STAR scoring, and meter every unit without rewiring the building.

THE PROBLEM

Master meters leave recovery on the table.

Master-metered loss

One building meter means owners absorb tenant consumption with no recovery path.

ENERGY STAR scoring

Portfolio benchmarking needs unit-level data that master meters cannot provide.

Occupied-unit installs

You cannot rewire occupied apartments to add submeters.

HOW VUTILITY FITS

Meter every unit without the rewire.

Per-unit metering

HotDrop™ meters each unit feed for fair, defensible tenant billing.

Billing-ready data

CloudVU exports per-unit kWh for recovery and resident transparency.

No rewire

Self-powered clip-on sensors install at the panel — no work inside units.

REPRESENTATIVE DEPLOYMENT
Illustrative scenario — not an actual customer

A 480-unit garden apartment portfolio

$1,180/mo
Recovered per property
480
Units metered
6 mo
Payback at portfolio scale

We added unit-level recovery without entering a single apartment.

— Asset manager, illustrative scenario

0.5%
ANSI C12.20 accuracy
480
Units
0
Units rewired
THE RECOVERY MATH

What master metering costs you.

When the building is master-metered, every kilowatt-hour a resident uses comes out of the owner's NOI. Unit-level HotDrop™ data makes consumption billable and defensible, and the same dataset feeds ENERGY STAR scoring and green-financing requirements.

See unit-level recovery in action.

15-minute walkthrough with a Vutility engineer on real customer data.

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