Powered by aQ Assistant

An AI assistant for facilities teams that answers with the evidence attached.

aQ Assistant is a multi-agent AI assistant built into Aqueduct: ask about your sites, zones or devices in plain language and it queries the platform data to answer. It knows which site and page you are looking at, returns analysis rather than a single number, and warns you when the data behind the answer is too thin to trust.

Top-down view of an open office floor
How does this week compare to the last few weeks?
12% below last week, driven by lower HVAC load on weekday afternoons. Two days had low meter coverage.
Demo data
Peak demand today
612 kW
Contracted 650 kWChillers sequenced
Demo data

Ask about any site in plain language and get the answer with its evidence.

Plain language

Ask about sites, zones and devices without knowing the hardware

  • No meter hunting

    Ask how a site compares to last week instead of walking from the main meter down to each sensor.

  • Knows your context

    The assistant takes the site and page you are looking at as context, so questions stay short.

  • Suggested prompts

    Starting questions sit in the side panel, so a new team member gets a useful answer on day one.

Curved glass corridor in an office building
How does this week compare to the last few weeks?
12% below last week, driven by lower HVAC load on weekday afternoons. Two days had low meter coverage.
Demo data
Analysis, not lookups

Answers that show consumption, demand and the trend behind them

  • Week by week

    Answers compare this week with recent weeks in a table, so the change and its timing are clear.

  • Projected month

    Consumption to date is projected to a full-month equivalent, so the team sees where the month will land.

  • Peak and average

    Average and peak demand come with the answer, so a load problem is visible without another query.

Aqueduct digital twin with the live water balance equation
Peak demand today
612 kW
Contracted 650 kWChillers sequenced
Demo data
Trust built in

A warning when the data is too thin to trust

  • Coverage checked

    The assistant reports how much of the period the data covers before drawing a conclusion from it.

  • Weak days flagged

    Days with low coverage are named, so a week-over-week comparison is not trusted when it should not be.

  • Points to the device

    Device health shows which sensor caused the gap, so the fix goes to the right place.

Aqueduct digital twin of an office building with metered water lines
Device health
ERS-CO2 · Level 2, Zone 4
Connection rate99.2%
Battery3.61 V
Last reading1 min ago
Demo data
Old way vs the Aqueduct way

Hunting for answers versus asking for them

The old way
  • A usage question means knowing which meter feeds which floor.
  • Answers come back as one number with no context.
  • Nobody says when the data behind a number is incomplete.
  • Comparing weeks takes an export and a spreadsheet.
  • Only the controls specialist can answer the question.
The Aqueduct way
  • Ask in plain language, and the assistant finds the right meters.
  • Answers include trend, peak demand and a projected month.
  • A data quality warning comes with every thin answer.
  • Week by week comparisons arrive in the answer itself.
  • Anyone on the facilities team can ask and get evidence.
The problem

The question is simple. Finding the answer is not.

Without an assistant, a usage question means walking the data from the main meter down to individual sensors.

01

You need to know the hardware

Answering 'how much did this site use this week' usually means knowing which meters feed which panel. Most people asking don't.

02

Answers arrive without caveats

A number from a week with missing readings looks as solid as one from a full week. Nobody tells you which is which.

03

Context gets lost

Every question starts from zero: which site, which period, which unit. The tool does not know where you are.

How it works

How aQ Assistant answers

It sits in a side panel next to the page you are on.

01

Ask

Pick a suggested prompt or type your own: 'Ask about your sites, zones, or devices.'

02

Take context

The assistant knows which site and page you have open and uses that as the starting point.

03

Query the data

Multiple agents use tools to query the Aqueduct database in aQ Core, the same store every outcome reads from.

04

Answer with evidence

You get the figures, a comparison, key observations and, where it applies, a data quality warning.

What a real answer contains

Asked for an electricity consumption summary for a site and how this week compares to recent weeks, a live answer included all of the following.

Consumption to date

What the site has used so far in the period.

Coverage of the month

How much of the month the readings actually cover.

Projected full month

What the month looks like if the pattern holds.

Average and peak demand

Both, because the peak is often what the tariff charges for.

Week by week

A comparison table across recent weeks, plus key observations in plain language.

Data quality warning

A flag that certain days had very low coverage, so the week-over-week comparison was unreliable.

Why the data quality warning matters

An assistant that always sounds confident is a liability in a plant room. If a sensor dropped off for three days, a weekly comparison built on those days is wrong, and the person reading it has no way to know.

aQ Assistant reports how much of the period the readings actually cover. When the readings behind an answer are thin, it says so, flags the days affected, and tells you the comparison is not reliable. That is the difference between an answer and evidence.

Office reception with soft teal light
What we believe

An answer without its evidence is just another opinion about the building.

Talk to our team
Who it is for

Questions each seat can ask

Facility head
“Give me an electricity consumption summary for this site. How does this week compare to the last few weeks?”

Consumption, coverage, projection, average and peak demand, a week-by-week table and observations, with a warning if the data is thin.

Infrastructure head
“Which site, zone or asset changed this week?”

The assistant answers from the portfolio data in aQ Core, with the evidence attached so you can open the source.

System integrator head
“How much of this month do the readings actually cover?”

Coverage is part of the answer, with a data quality warning when some days are too thin to compare.

Problem, solution, impact

Where it saves time

The assistant does not replace the views. It gets you to the right one faster.

The problemHow Aqueduct solves itThe impact
Energy

A usage question needs someone who knows the metering layout

Ask in plain language on the site page; the assistant finds the meters

Consumption, peak demand and trends without knowing the hardware

Water

A weekly comparison hides gaps in the readings

Answers carry coverage and a data quality warning

Decisions made on numbers you can defend

Operations

Every report starts from a blank page

Context from the page you are on sets the site and scope

Faster first answer, fewer wrong assumptions

What it is, and what it is not

AI is the method, not the product.

It reads, it explains

The assistant queries platform data and explains what it finds, in plain language.

It is not the control path

Equipment control runs through Smart Controls, only where enabled and with owner approval.

It can stay on site

For data that cannot leave, Aqueduct runs on-prem AI on NVIDIA infrastructure.

Questions

Common questions

A multi-agent AI assistant inside Aqueduct. You ask about your sites, zones or devices in plain language, and it uses tools to query the platform data and answer with the evidence attached.

Yes. It is context aware: it takes the site and page you have open as the starting point for the question.

It tells you. A live answer flagged that certain days had very low coverage, so the week-over-week comparison was unreliable.

The assistant answers questions. Equipment control runs through Smart Controls, only where control is enabled and with owner approval.

Where data cannot leave, Aqueduct deploys on-prem AI on NVIDIA infrastructure. The scope of an on-prem deployment is set during scoping.

See Aqueduct on your own facility.

Bring a site, a utility bill or a question. We will show you where the loss is.