EcoStruxure™ Building Advisor

Building management services with HVAC analytics

Part of EcoStruxure

This flexible suite of digital and on-site services works as an extension of your team. It proactively monitors your building management system and HVAC assets to detect energy inefficiencies, measure and reduce carbon intensity and diagnose equipment faults.

Discover EcoStruxure Building Advisor

Simplify your maintenance strategy

Unlock optimal operational performance

From rising operating costs and sustainability targets to labor shortages, building owners and operators are facing numerous challenges. Supported by both on-site and remote experts, EcoStruxure Building Advisor monitors buildings 24/7 and helps prioritize maintenance operations based on carbon, energy, and comfort scores.

Benefits of EcoStruxure Building Advisor

Up to 90,00 tons

reduction in carbon emissions in one year

Up to 20%

energy cost reduction

Up to 29%

decrease in unscheduled maintenance

Up to 33%

fewer occupant complaints

Features of EcoStruxure Building Advisor

• Detect and diagnose HVAC issues to prioritize energy, comfort, and asset life.
• Advanced digital twin for HVAC detects faults and diagnoses issues with greater accuracy.
• Quantify impacts based on energy, cost, and maintenance for clearer prioritization.
• BMS-agnostic solution allows portfolio-wide roll-out at campus and enterprise levels.
• CMMS/IWMS integrations enable more effective closure of tasks and budget allocation.
• Self-serve analytics and insights dashboards tailored to match roles and their goals.
• Prioritize maintenance with a sustainability focus by trending tasks with the highest carbon avoidance potential.

  • Automated checks on BMS servers and controllers to detect anomalies.
  • Consolidated view of all EBO systems and their status across multiple clients and buildings.
  • Automatic detection of BMS performance and configuration issues on servers and controllers.
  • Continuous checks across the entire system to improve coverage and early detection.
  • Automated reports summarize BMS issues and opportunities for upgrades.
  • Mitigate downtime risk caused by misconfigured connection between software and hardware
  • Aggregated view of Asset Health, BMS Health, and Smart Alarm for buildings and their performance. 
  • Consolidated view of all the clients, their buildings, and deployed system and services.
  • Aggregated view of three core services: BMS Health, Asset Health, and Smart Alarm in one pane.
  • Multi-language interface improves adoption by field service teams across a global portfolio.
  • Administrative features enable granting access across teams and end-users.
  • Suite of automated reports to summarize actions and future opportunities.
  • Auto-generated self-serve reports simplify tedious tasks that can take a few hours in less than five minutes.
  • Tailored reports dedicated to type-of-service: highlight savings realized, improvements or interventions made, and opportunities identified.
  • Multi-language enables engaging customers in their preferred language.
  • Aggregate high-priority alarms from multiple sites to manage effectively.
  • Consolidated view of critical alarms from multiple sites in a common view.
  • Realtime view to aggregate alarms from BMS and access connectivity heartbeat.
  • Configure alarms to be filtered by priority and individual access to acknowledge alarms.
  • Automated reports that summarize stats on top alarms, frequency, and occurrences.

• Access a dedicated working place to schedule and manage all maintenance tasks in a few clicks.
• Access historical data to understand the maintenance history of the building.
• Manage and optimize maintenance team performance.
• Ensure tasks are completed on schedule.

• Dynamic control of HVAC set points and schedule to reduce energy usage and improve comfort
• Leverage BMS operation data, as well as weather, energy-tariff, and occupancy forecasts
• Advanced machine learning algorithms continuously improve the building’s digital twin
• Native BMS integration offers facility teams transparency and control of AI’s actions
• Software-only implementation simplifies deployment without IT overheads or edge gateways

*Currently available in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.

Businesses that EcoStruxure Building Advisor supports

  • EcoStruxure Building Advisor helps commercial real estate owners and operators optimize building and portfolio operations and maintenance. 

    The most common outcomes achieved by EcoStruxure Building Advisor for commercial real estate clients include:

    •  Energy savings from elimination of scheduling errors that cause the HVAC systems to run when the building isn’t occupied.
    •  Quickly accessed hot and cold complaints through trending indoor air quality information from both real-time and historical data.
    •  Created confidence among building occupants returning to work post-pandemic through continuous airflow to match ASHRAE guidelines on temperature and humidity parameters.

EcoStruxure Building Advisor helps healthcare facilities maintain critical environments of care for patients in a comfortable and cost-effective manner. 

The most common outcomes achieved by EcoStruxure Building Advisor for healthcare clients include:

• Improved patient care by identifying zones with comfort or indoor air quality issues through detection of issues such as leaky valves and sensor faults.
• Reduced risk of airborne contagions by maintaining and ensuring positive pressure within patient rooms and zones.
• More accurate and proactive detection of issues in advance, avoiding downtime or offline status for fault analysis.
• Energy savings from system optimizations, such as static pressure reset on air handlers or supply temperature resets on chilled water loops. 

EcoStruxure Building Advisor helps institutions of higher education reduce costs and maintain large campuses in a proactive and cost-effective manner. 

The most common outcomes achieved by EcoStruxure Building Advisor for higher education clients include:

• Improved indoor air quality and comfort for students and staff with monitoring and regulation of zone setpoints.
• Improved efficiency with automated checks, allowing maintenance staff to do more with lean teams.
• Identification of drifts and anomalies through continuous monitoring-based commissioning with equipment programming.
• Improved comfort in large spaces, such as auditoriums, through optimal air changes and coordination of HVAC units.
• Effective benchmarking and prioritization across a large campus with harmonized fault detection and diagnostics, even with multiple BMS vendors.

EcoStruxure Building Advisor helps life sciences, laboratory, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical facilities ensure mission-critical environments while also optimizing cost and energy use. EcoStruxure Building Advisor has served life sciences, clients, around the globe, including prominent names like Boston Scientific.

The most common outcomes achieved by EcoStruxure Building Advisor in a high-tech life sciences facility include:

• Continuous monitoring of large numbers of state-of-the-art HVAC sub-systems.
• Reduction in leaking cooling valves, resulting in energy savings from HVAC systems.
• Consolidated building data that makes information available to all vendors.
• Proactive and prioritized identification of issues that could cause major problems and downtimes in business-critical facilities. 

EcoStruxure Building Advisor helps government institutions and facilities reduce costs and maintain essential public services in a cost-effective and reliable manner.

The most common outcomes achieved by EcoStruxure Building Advisor for government clients include:

• Improved indoor air quality and comfort for employees and the public by monitoring and regulating zone setpoints.
• Improved efficiency with automated checks, allowing maintenance staff to do more with lean teams.
• Proactive and prioritized identification of issues that could cause major problems and downtime in essential facilities.
• More accurate and proactive detection of issues in advance, avoiding downtime or offline status for fault analysis.

EcoStruxure Building Advisor helps public venues like airports, stadiums, and arenas operate and maintain large facilities in a proactive and cost-effective manner.

The most common outcomes achieved by EcoStruxure Building Advisor for public venue clients include:

• Reduced risk of airborne contagions by maintaining and ensuring positive pressure within different zones and areas.
• More accurate and proactive detection of issues in advance, avoiding downtime or offline status for fault analysis.
• Improved comfort in large spaces through optimal air changes and coordination of HVAC units.
• Continuous monitoring of large numbers of state-of-the-art HVAC subsystems.
• Create confidence among patrons to return to public venues post-pandemic through continuous airflow to match ASHRAE guidelines.

Roles that EcoStruxure Building Advisor supports

EcoStruxure Building Advisor allows enterprises to centralize and standardize by:

• Enterprise view of maintenance across the portfolio.
• BMS agnostic makes it compatible with any building.
• Integrate to CMMS to automate work orders.
• Track the SLA of service providers to follow outcomes.
• Make capital investments based on ROI analysis.
• Benchmark building performance and drive KPIs.
• Harmonize maintenance with a center of excellence.

EcoStruxue Building Advisor enables facility operations teams to optimize building performance and comfort by:

• Prioritize maintenance based on energy, carbon, and comfort scores.
• Reduce energy consumption and decrease carbon footprint.
• Extent asset lifecycle and mitigate downtime risk.
• Reduce occupant complaints and improve occupant engagement.
• Help to achieve compliance and build performance certifications.
• Harmonize maintenance across a portfolio.

EcoStruxure Building Advisor allows system integrators and service providers to grow revenue and improve their margins by:

• Demonstrate value of service delivered.
• Optimize time and effort on-site to resolve issues.
• Proactive identification and response to fix problems.
• Grow services businesses with the same team size.
• Identify new revenue streams.
• Lower the cost to serve a contract.

  • EcoStruxure Building Advisor enables sustainability teams to easily identify, prioritize, track and report maintenance issues that contribute toward carbon reduction and achieve the enterprise’s sustainability goals by:

    • Enterprise view of CO2 impact by buildings.
    • Prioritize maintenance with a carbon avoidance focus.
    • Manage open/closure of tasks that lead to carbon avoidance.
    • Trend CO2 reduction YoY to claim utility credits.
    • Harmonize CO2 reporting of maintenance tasks across the portfolio.
 
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