The big picture

Let’s begin with the big picture, before examining a specific example that you can follow to develop an AI-powered connected infrastructure. The over-riding goal is to connect all the devices and sensors you have in your multisite portfolio into an intelligent infrastructure for end-to-end device management and insights.

The data collected from your devices needs to be processed, so you can make sense of it. To do that efficiently across all the millions of data points you’ll capture, we need AI.

Why should you do this? Let’s outline the benefits:

Monitoring

Connecting all your devices opens the door to centralized monitoring. By collecting the data they generate – and your controls and commands sent back to them – you can apply AI to discover insights. So, you need to connect everything (roof top units, fridges/freezers, food transfer stations, etc.) into a single data fabric – and manage the data from a central console. In other words, connect all the sensors you use in your business to bring all the information together.

Command and control

With all your data together, you can also remotely control or even automate operations – based on the true context. You won’t be looking at silos, you’ll be looking at the totality of your connected devices, so you can make better decisions and control local settings, with the confidence that you have taken everything into account.

Maintenance

AI can be applied to detect early signs of failing equipment (for example, water pressure, incorrectly activated lighting systems, abnormal energy draw, and so on) leading to predictive maintenance, which reduces costly downtime and emergency repairs.

Optimizing performance

AI can analyze usage patterns for all your systems and automatically adjust units like HVAC, refrigeration, kitchen sensors, and lighting for maximum efficiency. The result…more efficient operations.

Safety and Compliance

The continuous monitoring of cold storage lets you know that temperatures remain in prescribed safety ranges, with automatic alerts if there are deviations. This reduces food spoilage and helps you comply with safety standards.

Efficient Operations

AI can enable you to co-ordinate individual device performance, for example shutting off lights or HVAC when they are not needed.

Insights

Gathering and centralizing data means, of course, that both historical and real-time data can be analyzed to help optimize staffing, equipment usage, inventory management, and more.

To summarize, connecting all your devices to an AI platform yields a range of benefits that have previously been out of reach.

What can you do?

Let’s turn to NexRev to see how the theory (above) can work in practice. With NexRev’s Freedom Energy and Building Management System in the cloud along with our Nexus, DrivePak, and other devices, we bring all the component parts (equipment, sensors, etc.) in your building together with NexiAI.

This means we consolidate your data sources, normalize formats and protocols, and make everything available for remote command and control, monitoring, analysis and automation from the Cloud.

And our AI innovations mean you can easily make sense of the data – ask questions, corelate information, and deliver instructions to reconfigure systems. It also learns, so future optimization is a breeze.

You will be able to interact with our NexiAI agent for every device and sensor in your property to gain valuable insights.

Furthermore, via AI, all performance information can be matched to current (or future!) weather conditions, enabling you to consider metrics including outdoor temperature, outdoor humidity, wind, cloud cover, UV index, precipitation, dewpoint, and moisture load into calculating your optimal equipment settings.

You’ll have all the information you need to both tune the solutions you already have deployed, and also to enable easy future optimizations.

NexRev also summarizes your current performance (energy efficiency score, comfort score, sustainability score, etc.) and identifies key trends, telling you for example that your:

• HVAC (RTU) equipment shows elevated kWh consumption.
• Extended operational hours are resulting in high base and peak loads (HVAC, lighting, refrigeration).
• Potential for energy waste due to lack of free cooling and long HVAC schedules are heightening unnecessary loads.

The bottom line. With an AI-driven, connected infrastructure NexRev makes the future of building management seamless, simple, and quick – giving you all the information you need to monitor and control your business, with the specific devices you want to connect brought into an intelligent infrastructure to achieve optimal performance.

Optimize with NexRev

NexRev is the leading provider of cloud-based, multisite 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, theaters, 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. To begin a discussion on how we can help you to reduce energy costs and waste please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.