Case Study: Peirce School achieves 20% energy savings and 15% faster fault detection with Microsoft Azure

Primary school’s energy management transformed by cloud-based insights

Peirce School, a public elementary in Arlington, MA, faced rising energy and maintenance risks after installing a new chiller to cool classrooms. With tight municipal budgets, limited historical data from legacy systems, and confusing alarm outputs that were largely ignored, the district needed a way to spot equipment faults early, cut energy use, and reduce costly contractor time across its facilities.

The town piloted ICONICS’ Facility AnalytiX fault-detection and diagnostics software hosted on Microsoft Azure, enabling quick deployment, three years of cloud-stored data, and a single-dashboard view of equipment health. The system pinpointed issues faster (reducing contractor search time by 15–20%), prevented accelerated chiller wear, lowered natural gas use by roughly 20%, cut outside contractor costs, and created a model now being expanded to other schools with state funding.

Peirce School

Melissa Topp

Director of Global Marketing