Smart building management with OpenInformer and ActiveDB

7 min reading time, updated on 31.03.2025

Digitalization offers property managers, building service providers and municipal utilities new opportunities to optimise processes, reduce costs and tap into additional sources of income. A practical example is provided by innotec, a customer of our subsidiary Cross Market Places, which uses bill-X software solutions to implement innovative approaches in building management.

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After reading the article, you will know:

  • OpenInformer enables flexible billing of waste, electricity, water, gas and heat at different levels (building, apartment or individual tenant).
  • ActiveDB uses living digital twins to monitor and control building technology in real time and to integrate modern IoT technologies such as LoRaWAN.
  • The combination of OpenInformer and ActiveDB offers municipal utilities and real estate managers a complete solution for efficient building management, including tenant electricity models and intelligent load control.

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Flexible waste billing with OpenInformer

With the OpenInformer billing platform, innotec designs waste billing flexibly – per building, apartment or even individually for each tenant in a residential community. This flexibility creates transparency, reduces administrative work and increases customer satisfaction.

 

But OpenInformer can do much more: in addition to waste charges, electricity, water, gas and heat can also be easily billed. Thanks to modern IoT technologies such as LoRaWAN, consumption meters can be integrated quickly and easily. This creates a complete end-to-end solution for building management.

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ActiveDB: Digital twins for intelligent buildings

The combination of OpenInformer with the ActiveDB platform expands the possibilities for digitizing administrative processes in this sector. ActiveDB acts as an operating system for living digital twins (LDZ). These digital images capture real-time data from buildings, systems and meters and enable permanent monitoring as well as predictive control and optimization of building technology.

The integration of ActiveDB creates intelligent overall systems for various building management applications with reusable software modules:

Fast integration of meters:
IoT technologies such as LoRaWAN make it easy to connect consumption meters to the system.

Real-time monitoring & control:
ActiveDB continuously collects operating data such as electricity consumption and heat generation in the digital twins, detects deviations immediately and enables proactive measures to be taken.

Tenant electricity models made easy:
With an energy management system (EMS) based on ActiveDB, property managers can sell solar power from the roof directly to their tenants – cheaper than electricity from the local utility. Numerous ready-made EMS packages are already available for this in ActiveDB.

Intelligent interface control:
The EMS can communicate directly with other systems via ActiveDB. For example, heat pumps or charging stations can be specifically controlled when electricity is scarce, or surplus solar power can be used automatically.

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Advantages at a glance

  • Flexible billing of all resources (waste, electricity, water, gas & heat)
    Fast integration of modern IoT technologies
  • Real-time monitoring & control through digital twins in the ActiveDB
  • Simple tenant electricity billing to open up new sources of income Intelligent interface control for load management – ideal for municipal utilities


OpenInformer and ActiveDB provide property managers and municipal utilities with a powerful all-in-one solution that optimally supports them in their digital transformation. The combination of flexible billing and intelligent control makes these systems an indispensable tool for modern building management.

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