Awards and press.
Independent juries and the trade press have looked at how Factor4Solutions optimises cooling plants. The awards below were decided by external panels and audiences, and the articles were written independently.
Recognised by external juries.
Businessplan-Wettbewerb Berlin-Brandenburg
BPW, Investitionsbank Berlin and Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg
Final phase, award ceremony 5 July 2023
The founding team won the final phase of the Berlin-Brandenburg business plan competition for a physics-based system controller that makes central cooling plants measurably more efficient.
Klimaschutzpartner des Jahres
Klimaschutzpartner Berlin alliance, with IHK Berlin
Berliner Energietage, 15 May 2024, Ludwig-Erhard-Haus, Berlin
Recognised in the Innovative Planning category for a digital system manager that plans and operates cooling plants against primary energy, electricity and CO2 together.
Gründungspreis der Berliner Sparkasse, Science & Startups
Berliner Sparkasse and Science & Startups, the joint start-up service of Berlin's universities
Award ceremony, 26 June 2024, Berlin
Third place in the founding prize awarded by Berliner Sparkasse and Science & Startups, for a software and hardware solution that closes an automation gap in cooling and heating plants.
DENEFF digistainable NOW!
Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz, digistainable NOW! project
2024
The audience of the DENEFF digistainable NOW! night voted Factor4Solutions its favourite among the presented efficiency-through-digitalisation solutions.
Covered in the trade press.
Selected coverage of the Stadtwerke Karlsruhe deployment and the wider approach, linked where a public version is available.
Online
- Kälte smart geregeltKKA Kälte Klima Aktuell, Issue 3/2025
- Kälte smart geregeltsilicon.de, April 2025
- Wie Digitalisierung Kälteanlagen effizienter machtindustr.com, May 2025
- Stadtwerke Karlsruhe: Kälte smart geregeltComputer & Automation, June 2025
- Digitaler Zwilling: KI-Lösung spart 40 % Strom bei der Kälteerzeugung einTGA+E Fachplaner, June 2025
- Energy Efficiency: Smart Cooling Control Cuts Consumption of EnergyIEN Europe, July 2025
- Systemmanagement optimiert Kälteerzeugung fürs GartenCaréecci Zeitung, Issue 06/2025
- Kälter, klüger, günstiger - dank KIB&I Die Industrie-Zeitung, August 2025
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