Danfoss Leanheat Building
Saara Salander is an experienced professional in the fields of operations management and energy efficiency, currently serving as Operations Manager and Energy Efficiency Expert at Danfoss Leanheat Building since March 2022. Prior to this role, Salander worked as a Doctoral Researcher and Project Researcher at Tampere University from December 2020 to February 2022. Previous experience includes positions as an Application Specialist and Thesis Worker at Valmet Automation from July 2018 to December 2020, focusing on process industry data regression analysis for predictive maintenance, as well as various trainee roles at Valmet Automation. Salander also contributed as a Course Assistant at Tampere University of Technology, teaching energy technology exercises in late 2017. Educational background includes a degree from Tampere University of Technology, completed in 2020.
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Danfoss Leanheat Building
Leanheat’s development began in 2011. The first sites with Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies were taken into use in 2013. And officially Leanheat as a company was founded in 2016. Since then, growth has been vigorous. Leanheat is now installed in around 80,000 apartments. The system also controls the indoorclimate for schools, gas stations, fire stations, and city halls. It is the world’s largest IoT solution for collective heating.Fully automated and self-learning, Leanheat’s solution provides real-time optimization not only for individual buildings, but entire clusters of apartment buildings – while at the same time giving the opportunity for district heating companies to serve their customers more efficiently and with a smaller carbon footprint.They work in collaboration with industry pioneers such as Fortum and Danfoss. Piloted in Finland with its harsh climate conditions, we are now looking at rapid international expansion.