In this blog, we’re going to continue our recent blog: exploring how AI is impacting (and benefiting) building managers. This time we’ll focus on the information your business tools provide to deliver a comprehensive “bigger picture” to AI of what’s going on at your facilities enabling your portfolio to be managed more effectively.
How does it work?
In the context of energy optimization, AI helps you to continuously monitor your building’s energy consumption in real-time. The AI can process remote data collected — from sensors in HVAC systems, lighting, occupancy, and even specific appliances — and then detect patterns in energy use and occupancy to make recommendations (for example, if the AI senses that a room is empty it might automatically reduce heating or cooling, dim lights, or adjust window blinds to optimize energy use).
With the addition of agentic AI capabilities, you can interrogate the portfolio and site data to generate responses, create reports, set controls and more. But we’re just talking about your data here. What if we can bring in data from other sources to enrich the existing data set and to enable more outcomes?
Take the weather for example. While operational settings can be changing instantly based on information collected remotely, that doesn’t necessarily mean that these adjustments will still be valid in a week – they may be seasonally optimized, but conditions can still change.
NexRev tools open a new door to how you can manage your building
NexRev’s AI powered tools not only give you a comprehensive experience that allows you to discover relevant and insightful information from within your building to tune your operations but also allow you to integrate external information from relevant sources to help you make the right decisions.
A good example is how AI can use ASHRAE climate zone data to optimize your settings and adjust for local weather conditions happening now, and upcoming forecasts. It is AI access to this breadth of information that not only makes your EMS/BMS system highly effective but really starts to maximize the potential of AI. This would allow dynamic adjustment to emerging weather conditions – which can make a real difference when extreme events are forecast.
That’s great – but what if we if we also integrate a ticket and workforce management system into our growing interconnected data fabric? Now we can enable intelligent interaction based the conditions on the ground (from your device, sensor and local data), dynamically changing weather conditions, and tasks that might be planned for your different sites.
Let’s say we have a routine (non-essential) site visit scheduled for three days’ time. However, a new weather alert is issued and processed – which predicts a major snow event that coincides with the scheduled site visit. So, we have work that isn’t essential and weather that could prove disruptive. Sure, humans can process this – but so too can an intelligent platform that has access to the relevant information.
AI can bring all of this information together and reschedule the visit for a better time. By making AI work for you, a planned but non-critical visit could be rescheduled automatically to avoid extreme weather and save an unneeded truck roll.
NexRev’s AI innovations help you manage your business and resources more effectively, taking account of all available data from your own systems and from those to which you choose to integrate – not only giving you insights but also supporting the planning and optimization of essential maintenance and tasks, so you can anticipate events, adjust accordingly and ensure efficient operations. It’s truly contextual, enabling dynamic, smart operations.
And that’s just one example – let’s explore what NexRev can do for your business with our AI innovations.
Optimize with NexRev
NexRev is the leading provider of cloud-based, multi-site energy management systems, backed by AI and delivered by SaaS models, that help businesses eliminate energy waste and reduce costs.
Our innovative Freedom™ EMS/BMS solution brings process-driven intelligence and AI to facilities management, providing complete remote control and centralized visibility of your energy-consuming devices across complex, nationwide property portfolios for leading brands in retail, theatres, restaurants, commercial, and industrial facilities.
With NexRev Freedom, our customers reduce waste, optimize energy management, and generate permanent cost savings by making the right decisions.
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