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The company

Software and engineering rigor, not boxes

puniq UG is a Berlin-based software company built for one job: turning commercial buildings that run five or more disconnected vendor systems into a single, readable layer that owners actually control. A building is already full of intelligence, scattered across HVAC controllers, access systems, metering, lighting and energy hardware that each speak their own dialect. We give the building one voice, one brain and one place to be understood.

One voice. One brain. One building. The soul of future buildings.

What asset-light means in practice

We sell software and engineering, so customers keep the margins.
Deliberately vendor-neutral: we never resell a manufacturer's stack.
Open-protocol and on-premises where it needs to be.
The data map and controls stay yours long after the engagement ends.

The method

Three products, one path from fragmented to intelligent

Most buildings start somewhere on this path and we meet them there. Read existing systems, build the layer where none exists, then optimize on top with advisory-only AI.

P2 · ENTRY

Data Auditor

We unify an existing multi-vendor building system into one readable, vendor-neutral layer, on-premises. The engagement closes with the Documented Data Map, the deliverable legacy integrators never hand over. Explore Data Auditor

P3 · NEW BUILDS

Infrastructure Blueprint

For new builds and deep retrofits where no readable layer exists yet. We design the open automation layer from scratch, on open protocols, so the building is intelligent on day one and never locked to one supplier. Explore Infrastructure Blueprint

P1 · ON TOP

AI Optimization

A cloud subscription layered on top of P2 or P3. Benchmarking, forecasting, anomaly detection and compliance output. Advisory-only and human-in-the-loop by design, which keeps it outside BSI C5 and NIS2 audit scope. Explore AI Optimization

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The Documented Data Map

The wedge. Every audit and blueprint closes with a full, vendor-neutral map of every controller, protocol and data point in the building. Legacy integrators and PropTech SaaS do not produce it. It is what makes a building auditable, transferable and genuinely yours.

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The Hardware Shield

No hardware sits on our balance sheet, which means software margins and low regulatory friction. The customer owns the on-premises layer; we bring the engineering and the intelligence on top. Asset-light, on purpose.

Founder

Waddah Zekri

puniq was founded by a Full-Stack IoT Architect and Smart Building Consultant based between Dresden and Berlin, whose career sits exactly where puniq operates: at the seam between embedded hardware, industrial control and applied machine learning.

At TU Dresden, on the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, he researched embedded software and IoT, built AI-based smart sensors, and worked on energy storage and microgrid optimization using time-series forecasting with LSTM and SARIMA models. That work is the direct ancestor of puniq's forecasting and anomaly-detection layer.

At elevait GmbH he applied machine learning and computer vision to detect and georeference construction-site plans onto satellite maps. At HOOTS sensorsystems he worked as an embedded and IoT engineer on transformer energy-supply monitoring and predictive maintenance, catching faults before they cut power. Earlier, at CERN's CMS/LHC, he worked on nuclear instrumentation and data analysis for gas electron multipliers.

He holds an engineering diploma and a Master in industrial informatics and automation from ENIT Tunis, with hands-on depth in SCADA, OPC, PLC, RFID and ROS, the exact protocols a real building runs on. He works in French, English and Arabic at an excellent level and German at B1.

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Why this background matters

Embedded and IoT engineering: reads the building at the controller level, not just the dashboard.
Industrial automation: SCADA, OPC, PLC, the languages legacy BMS actually speak.
Applied ML and forecasting: LSTM and SARIMA in production, not slideware.
Predictive maintenance shipped on real energy infrastructure with HOOTS.
Scientific rigor: instrumentation and data analysis trained at CERN.
Multilingual delivery across Europe, the GCC and North Africa.

Partners and clients

We do not work alone

Engineering teams, integrators and developers we build with across Germany and North Africa.

Screenflex

Interactive digital signage and IT services, based in Tunis (Elghazela). A delivery and integration partner for the visual and on-site layer of building intelligence across North Africa.

Saura (سُرى للتسويق)

Our growth-marketing partner, running puniq's marketing across markets so the engineering team stays focused on shipping building intelligence.

Immobilière de l'Archipel

A Tunisian real-estate developer. puniq is engaged on Résidence Aïcha 2, bringing readable, vendor-neutral building intelligence to a residential development from the ground up.

Markets we serve

One method, three regions

We operate across Europe, the GCC and North Africa, in English, Arabic, French and German. The building problem is the same everywhere: too many systems, too little readable data. Building software is the fastest-growing layer of this market, and that is exactly the layer puniq owns.

EuropeGerman BMS rigor, GEG §71a, CSRD and the EU Data Act turn readable building data from optional to mandatory.
GCCFast-growing commercial real estate that wants intelligence without vendor lock-in.
North AfricaHotels, residential and mixed-use developments where fragmented systems are ready to be unified.

The regulatory tailwind

The demand is being written into law

The demand for what puniq produces is no longer optional. Across the EU, the documentation, monitoring and reporting we deliver is increasingly written into law. That turns building intelligence from a nice-to-have into a compliance requirement.

GEG §71a (the German Building Energy Act) mandates system automation and monitoring for larger buildings, which is precisely the readable layer a Data Auditor engagement delivers.
EU Taxonomy and CSRD push corporate sustainability reporting that needs auditable building data, the kind a vendor-neutral data map can stand behind.
The EU Data Act 2024 strengthens the right to access and port machine-generated data, which directly favors open, non-locked-in building layers.

The Documented Data Map is the artifact that satisfies these requirements. Rigor in, friction out.

The advisory-only design of our AI layer keeps it human-in-the-loop and outside BSI C5 and NIS2 audit scope by design, so adopting intelligence does not enlarge a customer's regulatory burden.

Ready to make your building readable?

Tell us about the systems you run today. We will map the path to one intelligence layer.

Engineering one brain into buildings that were never designed to talk