Managing a building is no easy task. There are thousands of assets to maintain, complex systems to monitor and services that need delivering to make the customer experience as seamless as possible.
Traditionally, facilities managers have relied on administrators, help desks, timetables and paperwork to coordinate their cleaners, maintenance teams and third party contractors. But in the current climate of mass staff shortages and rising costs, the need to create leaner and more effective teams has become paramount.
This is what smart buildings can help to deliver. In short, making anything smart means using sensors to continuously monitor physical assets, which allows you to reduce safety checks, improve response times, more efficiently allocate your resources and cut out paperwork.
Combined with a mobile works management platform and application, you can use sensor data to schedule work dynamically in response to demand and asset data. This can result in dramatic efficiency gains of up to 77%.
