Practical insights on energy, building automation, and compliance for buildings and industry, by the Cobler team.
TNB Bills & TariffsA power factor surcharge is a penalty for how you draw power, not how much you use - and it's almost always avoidable. Here's what triggers it and how to stop paying.
BMS & Building TechnologyEdge or cloud? For a building platform the answer is both - time-critical control at the edge, heavy analytics and the portfolio view in the cloud. Here's which job goes where.
Energy Monitoring & AnalyticsFeaturedAn energy management system is now a compliance and cost necessity in Malaysia under EECA and the RP4 tariff. What an EMS is, and what to look for.
Compliance & IncentivesA practical guide to Malaysia's mandatory EECA energy audit, built on GP/ST/No.49/2024: scope, REA rules, the 12-section report, costs, EACG grants and the data to prepare before the auditor arrives.
BMS & Building TechnologyWe didn't set out to move data from OT to IT. We came from the BMS world and are building SaaS for both. The hard part was never the pipeline. It was the translation.
Compliance & IncentivesVentilate more and air quality improves but energy climbs; ventilate less and you risk breaching the DOSH CO2 limit. How to balance IAQ and energy with data.
BMS & Building TechnologyGood BMS design starts before anyone picks a controller. From understanding the problem, to designing backwards from the outcome, to optimising forever against live data.
ESG & Net ZeroThe auditor-proof way to calculate Scope 2 emissions in Malaysia: the official 2024 grid emission factors (Peninsular 0.740 kg CO2e/kWh), a worked example, and the five mistakes that fail audit.
BMS & Building TechnologyA BMS sequence written for London assumes a heating season and free cooling. Malaysia has neither. How a tropical climate reshapes what a building management system has to do.