Brunata: Building consumption metering, remote reading and cost allocation

Brunata provides consumption metering, remote reading and energy-management services for property owners, administrators and residents.

Summary

Best for
Property portfolios that need resident consumption accounts alongside meters and reading infrastructure.
Less suited to
Treating a radiator heat-cost allocator as a standalone thermal energy meter.
Deployment
Meters and sensors connected through wired M-Bus, wireless M-Bus or LoRaWAN to collection services.
Data in
Heat, water and electricity consumption, plus building-condition sensor readings.
Pricing
Pricing was not established from the reviewed technical sources; request a quote for the exact configuration.

Overview

Brunata combines consumption measurement with the services that turn readings into useful information for property administrators and residents. Its company overview separates consumption accounts, measurement technology, smart-building services and energy management. That combination is particularly relevant where the person responsible for a building also has to allocate costs between occupants.

The product portfolio includes energy meters, water meters, heat-cost allocators, sensors and network equipment. These are distinct measurement approaches. A heat meter measures thermal energy across a circuit; a radiator allocator supports the allocation of heating costs within a property. Choosing between them is part of designing the building's metering and accounting arrangement, not merely selecting a radio technology.

Offering

Brunata's network catalogue identifies B.One indoor and outdoor gateways, together with PDC, NDC and EDC communication modules. The NDC listing names M-Bus or LoRaWAN interfaces, while EDC lists LoRaWAN or wireless M-Bus. Those modules provide different ways to connect compatible meters into a reading system.

The broader product page explicitly describes cooperation with sister company ZENNER for meters and digital reading technology. Brunata should consequently be understood as a supplier and service provider within that group, without assuming it independently manufactures every listed device. Its offer is useful when meters, network equipment and the consumption-account service need to be planned together for a property portfolio.

Products and platforms

  1. Brunata Online

    Consumption-management platform

    Online access to consumption accounts, building services and utility monitoring.4

  2. B.One Gateway Indoor and Outdoor

    LoRaWAN gateways

    Indoor and outdoor network equipment in the Brunata catalogue.5

Technology

The wireless M-Bus description focuses on walk-by and drive-by reading and identifies the Open Metering System standard as the basis for including compatible meters from different manufacturers. Mobile reading can avoid appointments inside individual flats while still leaving a periodic collection process.

The LoRaWAN offering provides another network approach for meters and building sensors. Alongside these radio options, Brunata lists wired M-Bus for automated collection. These choices should be compared at the system level: meter interface, receiver or gateway, collection frequency and the application that receives the data. An existing meter's radio type alone does not establish that its keys, telegrams and readings are already available to a new service.

Markets

Brunata Online is the access point for consumption information and associated services. The company presents it for consumption accounts, smart-building functions and water-utility monitoring. The product therefore sits above the meter network, supporting users who need to view and manage information across properties rather than configure a field instrument one at a time.

Brunata's measurement portfolio also includes building-condition sensors and reading infrastructure. This supports projects that combine resource consumption with other building observations. For administrators, that can bring water usage and environmental information into the same service relationship, while residents principally need understandable consumption and allocation information. These different users help explain why the service scope is as important as the hardware catalogue.

Company

Brunata's company history places its headquarters in Herlev, near Copenhagen, Denmark. It traces predecessor work to heat-cost-allocation research in 1917, but dates the Brunata name to the 1950 merger of Constantin Brun A/S with the Swiss firm ATA. The date above refers to that merger rather than treating the earlier research as the incorporation of today's company.

Minol acquired Brunata in 2018. The current company describes itself as part of the Brunata-Minol-ZENNER Group and identifies ZENNER as a sister supplier of measurement technology. Its history also records the introduction of wireless meters in the 1990s and the move toward digital consumption accounts from 2005, explaining the present combination of field measurement and online services.

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References

  1. Brunata history, headquarters and Minol ownership (opens in a new tab)
  2. Brunata meter and sensor portfolio (opens in a new tab)
  3. Brunata wireless M-Bus reading system (opens in a new tab)
  4. Brunata Online consumption services (opens in a new tab)
  5. Brunata B.One gateways and communication modules (opens in a new tab)
  6. Brunata LoRaWAN network offering (opens in a new tab)

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