The Perth-based climate change consultancy’s Greensense View has reduced energy use in buildings by 50 per cent, with co-founder of the company, Fabian Le Gay Brereton, saying the product promotes an understanding of energy use.

“It’s about engaging stakeholders and making sure clients understand how their actions affect the sustainability of buildings,” Brereton said.

“Providing the technology gives these people a view on tangible things and it helps them to run programs to educate employees [about energy use].”

Brereton said Greensense View’s approach leverages real-time information on a building’s energy use.

“We can have a leaderboard and compare cities and even floor levels on the way they use electricity,” he said. “If you can give people real-time feedback on their behaviour, they tend to respond better to this.”