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MAISY APPS

Free AI-Powered Energy Cost & Sustainability Assessment Tool For Individual Households and Businesses



These AI-powered applications use just a few household/dwelling unit or business to estimate energy use and emissions for any dwelling unit/commercial business in the US. The apps also provide peer cost and emissions comparisons and present information on savings available with energy efficiency improvement targets.

The apps apply an AI k-nearest neighbor (KNN) analysis along with regression refinements where dwelling units or businesses from master databases are identified as belonging in the user’s “neighborhood” with a weighted distance measure that includes household/dwelling unit or business characteristics. Energy use and emissions from the nearest neighbors provide the basis for estimating the App user’s energy use and emissions. The master database includes energy use and emissions for more than 7 millions of households and businesses across the US.

The assessment process:
  • Uses your ZIP code and a few household/business details to identify a "neighborhood" of peer buildings
  • Calculates a neighborhood distribution of enegy use, energy costs and emissions
  • Uses your energy cost estimates to calculate your energy use with energy prices in your ZIP code
  • Calculates your emissions based on your estimated energy use
  • Calculates a sustainability score (0 - 100) reflecting energy use and emissions based on a comparison with similar residences/buildings in your "neighborhood""
  • Presents a "neighborhood" distribution of energy costs and emissions along with your energy costs, emissions and sustainability score
  • Shows reductions in energy costs and emissions for different efficiency targets
  • Provides tips that can immediately improve your sustainability score and reduce your energy costs
  • Works for all continental US residential and commercial buildings providing accurate results based on the 7+ million record MAISY Utility Customer Databases
  • Provides an assessment in about 1 minute

Energy Cost & Sustainability Assessment Tool Can Be Launched From Other Web Sites

See the features described in the section above. The Tool can be launched from any Web site with a simple link or button that we provide. All analysis is performed on our servers and presented in a widget popup that displays in a small window in front of your Web page. Besides providing your Web visitors with the benefits listed above, The Tool:
  • Sends you an email notification of the visit. Users can opt into providing you with with data and results for each user session (no contact information is included unless the user volunteers this information)
  • Optionally allows the visitor to email a message to you
  • Can provide addition messaging, sales information, etc.
  • Expands Web traffic, builds brand loyalty and increases sales and/or message reach
Benefits for Organizations are described in more detail below:

MAISY DATABASES
   Drive new visitors to your Web site with Free Sustainability Scores, Energy Cost & Emissions Benchmarkig Evaluations
Financial firms have used mortgage payment widgets for years to attract new Web traffic and to engage potential customers by providing easy answers to the question “how much can I save on my mortgage payments if I refinance now.” The Energy Cost & Sustainability Assessment Tool popup widget now provides this same benefit by answering the following questions:
  • "What is my sustainability score? "
  • "How do my energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions compare to peer residences/buildings in my area?"
  • "How much can I save in energy costs if I improve my ranking to be among the best 10th, 20th, 30th or more percentiles?"
  • "How do these improvements impact my greenhouse gas emissions?"
After clicking on the widget button (or link) on your Web site, visitors will seamlessly be ushered through a short list of questions and then be shown a comparison of their sustainability score, energy costs and emissions with similar residences/businesses. Vistors can evaluate potential sustainability score reductions, cost savings in dollars and cents along with the greenhouse gas emission and then return to your Web site for follow-up.

Email and US mail advertisements, press releases and other Web-focused promotional activities highlighting this free benefit can substantially increase your Web traffic based.

ANALYSIS AND CONSULTING
   Provide Value to Your Web Visitors With Actionable Real-World Personalized Sustainability Scores, Energy Cost & Emissions Benchmarking and Savings Opportunities
Many Web sites attempt to demonstrate the financial and environmental benefits of reducing energy use. Typical motivational pitches include something like the following:
  • “Technology X can reduce your air conditioning costs by as much as 20%”
  • “Our recommissioning services can save between 5 and 20 % of your energy bill and reduce emissions by the same amount”
While these statements may be true, they don’t often motivate Web visitors to actually engage and follow up actions.

MAISY Energy Cost & Sustainability Assement Tool widgets overcome this lack of motivation and engagement by:
  • Providing sustainability scores, energy cost and emissions benchmarking comparisons with peer buildings in the local area
  • Quantifying, in dollars and cents and pounds of carbon how much energy costs and emissions can be reduced with a target percentile set by the user
  • Suggesting low-cost actions that can be taken immediately to reduce costs and emissions
For example, a typical widget result is: “Your building’s annual energy cost of $80,000 is greater than 75 % of similar buildings in your area. If you match the typical median score of 50 %, you can save $32,000 per year or $160,000 over five years and reduce your emissions by 250,000 lbs annually. View some options for achieving these results by clicking here” ----- Information much more likely to engage and benefit the online customer.

ANALYSIS AND CONSULTING
   Use a Call to Action at the End of the Widget Presentation to Engage Further With Your Customers
Including the MAISY Energy Cost & Sustainability Assessment Tool with a button on your Web site will immediately engage and connect you with Web visitors who otherwise might have left your site.

You will have an opportunity to engage further with you visitor on the last page of the widget. We can customize these pages for your application. Examples include:
  • Nonprofit environmental/energy conservation organizaions: Present policy goals, achievement, encourage support and membership
  • Hardware/big box store: Present energy efficiency and conservation items that you sell, invite questions
  • HVAC companies: Describe your services, invite a response
  • Energy efficiency companies/consultants: Describe your services, invite a response
  • Financial institutions: Present your home improvement loan options, invite questions
  • Utilities: Promote your programs and invite questions
  • Municipalities & other government agencies: Promote your green programs
ANALYSIS AND CONSULTING    Gain Unique Real-Time Intelligence on Your Widget Participants
Each time a visitor engages the Energy Cost & Sustainability Assessment Tool Widget, you will automatically be sent an email report notifying you of the contact. Vistors can also opt to provide analytics based on the sustainability score, energy cost/emissions results. These automated reports do not provide visitor contact information; however, if the last page in the popup provides an option for an email/phone response request, that information will also be provided.

This information provides unique, valuable intelligence to understand the kinds of customers who are engaging with the widget on your Web site and an opportunity to update your messaging to more effectively address your Web market, to assess the effectiveness of individual sales initiatives, and more.

ANALYSIS AND CONSULTING



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