Real deployments
A digital twin on real data, dated real cases with verified outcomes, government-granted intellectual property, and what the press has written about BenKon.
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Every case follows the same loop: detected → on site → action → verified.
Services · gyms · F&B · 29/09/2026 · Southern Vietnam
Hotels · 05/10/2026 · Central Vietnam
Research · 2025 · Springer
An AC control framework using BenKon IoT devices and computer vision; about 13.38% daily electricity savings within the scope of the study.
Springer ↗BenKon does not name its customers. Below are the sectors and the scope deployed.
AC and fridge monitoring; per-store compliance indicators; store ranking against a peer group of similar stores.
Automatic schedules and temperature locks across branches; central monitoring from head office.
After-hours lockout; temperatures standardised to company policy.
Cooling schedules aligned with peak and off-peak hours; VRV monitoring.
Minimum temperature lock; empty rooms switched off; anomaly alerts.
Real-time fault detection; energy by floor.
ACs switched by the class timetable, including weekends and holidays.
Patent No. 53649 — Energy-saving air-conditioning monitoring and control system
22/10/2025 · Decision 242410/QĐ-SHTT
Patent No. 53000 — Energy-saving air-conditioning control system and method via QR code
03/10/2025 · Decision 227277/QĐ-SHTT
BENKON trademark, class 09
12/02/2025 · No. 4-0527091-000
Top 10 Outstanding New Digital Technology Products — Make in Viet Nam 2024
31/12/2024 · Decision 07/QĐ-BTC · Source↗
Best Outstanding Solution, Startup track — Vietnam Innovation Challenge 2023; presented by the Prime Minister at the opening of NIC Hoa Lac
10/2023 · Source↗
Certificate of Merit from the Chairman — Third Prize, Creative Startups, 3rd Ho Chi Minh City Innovation Award
22/08/2023 · Decision 3528/QĐ-UBND · Source↗
Software copyright certificate
31/05/2022 · No. 4350/2022/QTG
Google for Startups Accelerator Southeast Asia 2023 — graduate
25/01/2024 · Source↗
First Prize, Vietnam track — Startup Wheel 2022
26/08/2022 · Source↗
Top 5 Green Innovation Fellowship 2023 (IBP · BSSC)
24/08/2023
Qualcomm Vietnam Innovation Challenge (QVIC) 2023 — Top 3
2023 · Source↗
Outstanding Start-Up — Tuoi Tre Start-Up Award 2023
26/04/2023
Tech4life 2023 — VINASA
2023
SK Startup Fellowship 2022 — Top 12
2022
BenKon's note: The article describes the device → Bluetooth Mesh → cloud architecture designed by Vietnamese engineers, and the two Vietnamese patents granted in 2025.
Source: Tạp chí KH&CN Việt Nam · Vietnam.vn, 08/10/2026 · View original↗
▶BenKon's note: Vietnam Today quotes BenKon's CEO on owning both the hardware and the platform.
Source: VTV English · Vietnam Today, 07/09/2026 · View original↗
BenKon's note: BenKon was one of nine energy-efficiency solutions presented at the event by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, GGGI and Hanoi University of Science and Technology.
Source: Báo Công Thương, 06/2026 · View original↗
