Why Newsec Chose Ento

How do you digitise energy management across hundreds of large commercial properties without spending a year rebuilding databases and mapping meters? For Newsec, one of the largest property asset managers in the Nordics, the answer was partnering with Ento to implement a platform that fits their data — not the other way around.

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Scaling AI Energy Management Across 300+ Commercial Properties

Newsec's energy team provides operational support to prestigious institutional investors, including Urban Partners, Dades and Sampension. Managing a portfolio of over 300 commercial properties — ranging from historic landmarks to state-of-the-art urban developments — requires a system capable of handling large-scale operations while automating cumbersome manual processes.

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“Over the past year, we have replaced several digital platforms, and now the time has come for energy management. Ento has a unique product that automates several workflows in our team, which ultimately enables us to offer our customers a better and more competitive product.”

Sine Kallestrup Sørensen, Team Leader ESG & Energy Management at Newsec

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Adapting to Newsec’s Existing Data Structure

One of the biggest technical challenges in a PropTech data integration of this scale is the underlying infrastructure. Across Newsec's portfolio, consumption data comes from more than 50 utility providers, each with its own data format, billing structure, and level of API access.

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Furthermore, Newsec wasn't starting from scratch. The organisation already held a massive amount of historic consumption data, carefully structured in a complex ontology linking hundreds of individual meters to specific sites, tenants, and investment portfolios. Traditionally, moving to a new software platform would mean dismantling that structure and spending up to a year rebuilding it. For an operation of this size, that simply wasn't realistic.
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From Signing to Full Deployment in 14 Days

In just two weeks, Newsec successfully deployed the Ento Advisor across the entire portfolio. Rather than building custom IT pipelines from scratch, Ento connected directly to existing utility meter data through established API integrations and data hub partnerships with local providers.

Through standardized SFTP and API connections, data from all these different electricity, water, and district heating suppliers now flows directly into the platform automatically. This provides the energy management team with continuous, hourly data granularity, all integrated within 14 days without the need for new hardware. With this data connected, the Ento Advisor continuously monitors consumption patterns across the full portfolio, automatically prioritising the buildings with the highest potential for savings and flagging properties that are not operating as expected.

Instead of manually searching for anomalies across different building types in complex spreadsheets, Newsec's team now receives a ranked overview of exactly which properties need attention first — and why. The platform also automatically tracks the actual return on investment following operational changes, with savings verified using weather-normalised, IPMVP-aligned measurement and verification. This feeds verifiable data directly into ESG reporting workflows for Newsec's institutional clients.

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Best Practices for Digitizing Commercial Real Estate Portfolios

Newsec's experience shows that digitising energy management across a massive commercial portfolio doesn't have to take years. The first part of the equation is having a solution that adapts to you. Instead of forcing Newsec to restructure their setup, manually normalise data, or invest in new hardware, Ento integrated directly into their existing meter infrastructure and historic data structure

But flexible software is only half the story. The true driving force behind this rapid rollout was Newsec's skilled and motivated internal team. Technology can only move as fast as the people driving it, and this transition was made possible by a team that was curious, willing to challenge existing systems, and ready to embrace new workflows. It is exactly this combination — a platform that fits the data and a proactive team — that turns AI insights into real, tangible energy savings in the buildings. 

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Key Takeaways:

- Speed: Deployed AI energy management software across 300+ properties in just 14 days

- Integration: Consolidated data from 50+ utility providers without rebuilding existing databases

- Efficiency: Automated the identification of energy waste and anomalies using hourly data granularity

- Compliance: Streamlined automated ESG reporting with verifiable, portfolio-wide ROI tracking