Camera monitoring
Bring indoor and outdoor cameras into one dashboard, with clean views for owners, managers and trusted users.
Who we work with
Automation, sized to the property.
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Homes & holiday lets
Security, heating, air conditioning, leaks and usage, watched and controlled from anywhere.
See home automation → 02Commercial buildings
Energy audits that find the waste in how a building runs, then live monitoring with a monthly report.
See energy audits → 03Engineers & contractors
Tools for the people who commission and maintain building controls.
See what's coming →Homes & holiday lets
Stay in control of the property when nobody is there.
Kidd Automation designs practical monitoring systems for properties that sit empty for stretches, host guests, or need tight climate control. Based between Ireland and Spain, focused on Alicante and Murcia. The goal is simple: fewer surprises, faster decisions, and a house that is ready when people arrive.
What can be automated
One integrated system for security, comfort and control.
Temperature control
Track room-by-room temperature, humidity, frost risk and abnormal swings before they become expensive.
Heating & air conditioning
Schedules, one-off boosts, guest-arrival mode, away mode and automatic limits for heating and AC.
Remote alerts
Get notified when temperature drops, a device goes offline, motion is detected or the property mode changes.
Leak detection
Watch kitchens, bathrooms, plant rooms, tanks and weak points so a water leak triggers an immediate alert.
Electricity usage
Monitor consumption, abnormal spikes, appliances left running and high-draw events, circuit by circuit.
Water usage
Track water consumption, unusual flow, irrigation and usage patterns that point to leaks or forgotten systems.
The owner dashboard
Every system in the house, on one screen.
Designed and tuned per property. This is the kind of view an owner gets on a phone, tablet or wall panel — click through the tabs.
A tablet by the door for guests: lights, climate, and nothing they shouldn't touch.
Cameras, climate, water and power from one property — not four unrelated apps.
Guided tour
Two minutes inside the dashboard.
A walkthrough of a Costa Blanca villa: away mode with a pre-heat before guests arrive, room-by-room climate, a week of energy and water, and the cameras after dark.
Subtitled and silent here. Open the narrated version in a new tab.
Holiday home focus
Built for properties that need watching from a distance.
Before guests arrive
Bring the main rooms to temperature, check the cameras, confirm devices are healthy and set the house to guest mode before anyone reaches the door.
While the house is empty
Watch frost risk, unexpected temperature swings, unwanted motion, water leaks, abnormal usage, AC left running or devices dropping offline.
When help is needed
Share exactly what a caretaker or installer needs to see, without handing anyone full control of the house.
How a project runs
From survey to handover, the system is built around the property.
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Property survey
Map cameras, heating, AC, leak sensors, meters, wifi, guest needs and owner access.
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System design
Choose the right integrations, dashboards, automations and alerts — and leave out what you don't need.
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Install & test
Connect devices, tune automations, test the edge cases and tidy the controls.
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Handover & support
A clear dashboard, owner training, and ongoing adjustments as the house changes.
Commercial buildings
Building Performance & Energy Audit
Find the energy your building wastes, prove the savings and cut your carbon. An audit of how your plant actually runs, using the data your building's control system already logs. We find and evidence the issues; your mechanical, electrical or controls contractor carries out the repairs, with our advice on the process.
Book an audit
About building energy audits
Built on Tridium Niagara 4. Other BMS platforms on request.
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Trust the data
Check every trend log is live, complete and changing, so the findings stand up.
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Find the waste
Out-of-hours running, plant left on, heating and cooling fighting, and fan coils that never deliver.
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Price every finding
Each opportunity in kWh, euro and tonnes of CO₂e, ranked by what it saves.
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Brief the contractors
Each finding goes to the responsible mechanical, electrical or controls contractor with the evidence. We advise on priorities and the process.
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Verify the fix
Every repair is checked in the trend data, with before-and-after figures.
Example site: cautious schedule and setpoint savings only (about 5% of metered electricity), from one measured week of BMS data counted over a 28-week heating season, using SEAI's 2025 grid carbon factor. Plant faults are passed to the responsible contractor and not costed until the cause is confirmed.
Inside an audit
Every system modelled. Every datalog checked.
This is what you receive: an interactive audit of your building, built from its own BMS trend logs. Explore the example below, from a real building under commissioning with the names changed.
After the audit · Live monitoring
Your building, monitored with every breath it takes.
The audit is a snapshot. Live monitoring keeps watching: every trend log checked continuously, waste caught as it starts, and a clear report on your desk every month.
Watched around the clock
Energy, plant and comfort checked continuously against the building's own baseline.
A monthly report
Energy, carbon and cost against last year, savings delivered, and findings opened and closed.
Tuning with approval
Schedules, setpoints and control loops tuned from the data. Every change is approved by you or your controls contractor, kept within safe limits, logged and reversible.
Faults caught early
New problems go straight to the responsible mechanical, electrical or controls contractor, with the evidence.
Monthly report
September · example office building
- Tuned AHU 1 supply temperature loopHunting stopped · approved by controls contractor
- Tuned Heat pump night setbackTwo hours earlier · approved by facilities
- Found FCU 3-12 heating valve passingSent to mechanical contractor
- Closed Block B heat metersLogging again · verified in the data
Coming soon · For engineers & contractors
Tools we're building.
Two products for the people who look after building controls, built from years of commissioning and service work.
For building services contractors
In development · Q4 2027After-hours alarm response.
When a building's BMS raises an alarm at 3am, the right engineer hears about it in plain language, with the fault, the plant affected and how urgent it is. Nuisance alarms don't wake anyone, and the service desk starts the morning with a full log.
Triaged around the clock
Critical faults are escalated straight away; low-priority alarms wait for the morning.
Your on-call rota
Calls follow the engineer rota you already run, and escalate if nobody answers.
Works with your controls
Built around the alarms your supervisors already send. No change to the controls.
Every event logged
A written summary of each alarm and call, ready for the service desk and the client.
Example call log
Example office building
- 02:47 Alarm receivedAHU 2 supply fan failure
- 02:47 TriagedCritical · occupied from 07:00
- 02:48 On-call engineer calledAnswered · fault and plant read out
- 02:49 Summary sentService desk and site contact
- 04:10 Alarm receivedFilter differential pressure high
- 04:10 TriagedLow priority · held for the morning report
For BMS engineers
Under construction · Q2 2027BMS Assistant, the field app for BMS engineers.
Guides, checklists and tools for commissioning and servicing building management systems, written by an engineer for engineers. Every system comes with an explainer that shows how it actually works, from VAV boxes to PID loop tuning. Covering Tridium Niagara, Trend, Cylon, ABB, Distech, Schneider and Siemens.
- How systems work
- PID loop tuning
- Step-by-step guides
- Commissioning checklists
- Modbus & M-Bus register maps
- Field test tools
Start a project
Tell Kidd Automation what your property needs to watch.
A good first message includes where the property is, what devices are already there, what you want to see remotely, which utilities matter, and what should trigger an alert.
Based between Ireland and Spain, covering Alicante and Murcia.
Email: hello@kidd-automation.ie