BuildingIQ Launches Mobile App for Streamlined Maintenance and Comfort Management
April 19 2018 - 6:00PM
Business Wire
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BuildingIQ (ASX: BIQ) today announces that it has launched a
mobile app designed to provide a building’s facilities team with
access to BuildingIQ’s 5i Platform while on-the-go. With the app,
members of the facilities team can identify and submit issues
within a facility or campus, document with mobile photos, and
automatically create a maintenance ticket in the moment. Features
can also be enabled to allow tenants to submit service requests for
automatic ticket creation. The app may also be used to engage
tenants on how they feel about the space by enabling a Comfort
module. With Comfort enabled, it takes only a few seconds for a
building occupant to let the facilities team know if a location is
too warm, cold, or just right. This vital feedback is mapped to
building system status and presented through heat maps depicting
the human factor of cooling and heating operations. The BuildingIQ
Mobile App is now available for current BuildingIQ customers
utilizing Facility Worksite.
“Mobile applications can be great for productivity when done
right,” said Mr. Jimmy Cheung, Director, Facilities and Engineering
at CN Tower. “Apps that combine both facilities professional and
tenant tools in one – like BuildingIQ’s app – are potentially very
valuable in delivering flexibility, utility and engagement. This is
especially true as building owners, management firms and facility
companies all embrace broader service offerings.”
The app is an integral part of BuildingIQ’s mobile-focused
strategy to aid facilities teams by improving their efficiency and
creating more powerful technology-enabled services for the
buildings industry. According to Michael Nark, CEO of BuildingIQ,
“this intuitive app integrates with our intelligent energy
management platform, allowing the user to document, assign, track
and verify tasks in real-time. The tenant-facing features are a key
step in allowing people working within a building or campus to act
as an extension of a building’s sensors and fault detection system,
so that issues can be identified and resolved quicker.”
Facilities Manager Features: Streamlined Operations and
Insights
Using the Service Center module, each member of the facilities
management team can create and manage work ticket that they created
or have been assigned to them – all in the moment – to improve
efficiency. The Service Center module provides an overview of all
work orders so that managers can ensure operations are running
smoothly in real-time.
By enabling the Comfort module of the BuildingIQ Mobile App,
facilities teams will be able to gauge the ‘human’ impact of their
heating and cooling strategies, by turning tenants into the
ultimate building sensors. Everything is made simpler by using the
Goldilocks principle – a tenant is either ‘too cold,’ ‘too hot,’ or
‘just right’ at any time during the day. When submitting comfort
information, feedback will be tagged by location within a building
by floor and, more specifically, by the space/zone on that floor.
The data can then be used to create heat maps to correlate hot and
cold comfort calls with building system settings. This will
encourage more real-time feedback, replacing hot and cold calls
that occur only once discomfort has escalated to a point of
disruption.
Using the BuildingIQ Mobile App, facilities managers will also
be able to:
- Configure whole floors or spaces within
floors
- Obtain a quick overview of aggregated
feedback across all tenants and locations
- See static information about comfort
and energy management
- Engage with tenants directly
The BuildingIQ Mobile App is designed to be used by current
customers. A Facility Worksite subscription is the minimum
recommended requirement to benefit from using this app. The
BuildingIQ Mobile App is available for download at the Apple App
Store or Google Play. Learn more at www.buildingiq.com/app.
About BuildingIQ
BuildingIQ (BIQ.AX) provides technology-enabled services to help
building owners and operators worldwide save energy, increase
operational efficiency, and improve tenant comfort. Through its 5i
cloud-based platform, BuildingIQ delivers on the promise of the
Internet of Things (IoT) to help visualize, analyze, control, and
optimize energy usage within a single facility, campus or portfolio
of buildings. More than 100M square feet of global building space
is currently being serviced by BuildingIQ to reduce operating
costs. www.buildingiq.com
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