Sensia Compliance — get your tertiary portfolio in order, and prove it

Sensia Compliance is the platform's regulatory foundation. It answers one precise question: where does each of my buildings stand against what the law requires, and what do I file, when?

In practice it:

• builds the asset register of your portfolio (regulated functional entities, floor areas, activities, reference years);
• computes the Tertiary Decree trajectory building by building, in relative and absolute terms;
• produces the OPERAT filing data and the year-on-year follow-up;
• runs the BACS Decree audit of your automation and control systems;
• supports the energy audit under the EN 16247 standard;
• issues compliance reports at building or portfolio level.

It is a governance tier, not a control tier: it documents, computes and warns. Real-time control is what Sensia Hypervision is for.

France's Tertiary Decree requires buildings above 1,000 m² of tertiary activity to cut final energy consumption by 40% by 2030, 50% by 2040 and 60% by 2050 — either in relative terms (against a reference year) or in absolute terms (a threshold in kWh/m²/year set per activity category).

The rule is not the hard part. The edge cases are: choosing and justifying the reference year, weather adjustment, splitting the regulated functional entities, and claiming modulation for technical, heritage or disproportionate-cost constraints.

Sensia Compliance carries that reasoning for you and keeps a trace of every assumption — which is what matters on the day a filing has to be defended.

To understand the regulation itself before talking tooling, see our dedicated Tertiary Decree page.

The BACS Decree requires tertiary buildings to be fitted with building automation and control systems, on a timeline of its own, with a periodic inspection duty.

Sensia Compliance automates the audit: inventory of equipment and its control class, gap against the required level, list of non-conformities and an estimate of what is left to do.

Most operators discover at this point that their existing BMS does not cover what the decree asks — and that the answer is not to buy a new BMS, but to document and close specific gaps.

The tier ships the EN 16247 energy audit framework and a simple payback calculator for modulation actions: you weigh the cost of an action against the expected consumption saving, and you know whether it belongs in a modulation claim or in a capex plan.

That calculation is the one most often missing from filings: without it, a modulation claim on disproportionate costs cannot be defended.

You do not manage a building, you manage an estate. Sensia Compliance aggregates compliance status at portfolio level, ranks by risk and flags approaching deadlines.

Reports are exportable and meant to circulate: real-estate management, investment committee, landlord, tenant, auditor.

For the sake of commercial honesty, let us spell it out. Sensia Compliance does not provide:

• real-time sensor supervision;
• any control or write path to your equipment;
• ISA-18.2 alarm management or an intervention lifecycle;
• a BIM/IFC digital twin.

All of that belongs to Sensia Hypervision, which includes the whole of Sensia Compliance. You can start with compliance and open up hypervision later with no migration: same platform, same asset register.