Comprehensive Energy Monitoring for a Prestigious College Campus

A campus-wide rollout of CORIS energy and temperature monitoring across dozens of buildings — what was deployed and what was learned.

Energy management is a critical point of focus for colleges and universities across the U.S. Cost savings is one obvious driver — but it's not the only one. 75% of prospective students say a school's commitment to environmental sustainability would influence their decision to attend.

Alongside recycling programs, bike rentals, and community gardens, effective energy management inside campus buildings is one of the highest-impact moves a school can make. Building energy use is often the single largest source of campus greenhouse gas emissions.

From a single student gym to a campus-wide program

At one prestigious college, the partnership with CORIS started small. The facilities team needed a better way to monitor and control the lighting in a single student gym — a high-traffic building where lights were routinely being left on long after the last student had left. CORIS was deployed to give the team real-time visibility and remote control over that one space.

What began as a focused lighting project quickly evolved into something much bigger: a dynamic, campus-wide energy management program built on the same CORIS platform.

What the campus deployed

• Wireless monitoring across dozens of buildings on a single unified dashboard
• Lighting monitoring and control in high-traffic shared spaces like gyms, classrooms, and common areas
• Energy use tracking by building to identify the largest emitters and highest-savings opportunities
• Temperature and environmental monitoring alongside energy data — one platform, one operations workflow
• Role-based access for facilities, sustainability, and leadership teams to share the same data with different views

The result: sustainability the campus can measure

With CORIS, the college moved from one-off lighting fixes to a true campus energy management program — measurable, scalable, and shareable with prospective students who care deeply about a school's sustainability commitments. Facilities saves on operating costs, sustainability has the data to back up its reporting, and the platform keeps growing into new buildings as the program expands.