Multi-site management is better with Freedom. A complete, open EMS/BMS.
“Freedom – a complete, open EMS / BMS, with rich APIs and boosted by AI…”.
Managing a property is demanding at the best of times. Managing a portfolio of properties, many with differing needs and distributed over a wide geography even more so. An Energy and Building Management System (EMS/BMS) that’s primed for the task of multi-site management can give you several advantages. Let’s find out what they are.
Many organizations today (retailers with a national footprint might be an obvious example) have multiple sites. These sites may or may not be consistent in nature with each other. That’s why, in many cases, when it comes to an organization’s EMS/BMS, one size doesn’t necessarily fit all. The system, to deliver full value, must be “comprehensive”. An energy/building management system (EMS/BMS) that’s designed to manage multiple sites confers a significant advantage where the real estate portfolio is extensive, and facilities are spread far and wide. What sort of benefits should we expect such a system to deliver?
In the middle of everything
The obvious answer to that question is centralized control and monitoring. With a centralized EMS/BMS, a single interface provides the touchpoint for monitoring and controlling energy usage across the entire portfolio of sites regardless of distance, dramatically simplifying their management.
The interface will also provide immediate access to real-time data from multiple locations, which enables the facilities manager to make informed decisions about how the system is run, on the fly.
More efficient, less wasteful
When you have visibility to your entire portfolio in real-time and can make adjustments across said portfolio, the corollary will be optimized energy usage because you’ll be in position to identify inefficiencies and address them universally, as soon as circumstances require and dictate.
You can also benefit from benchmarking. By managing all sites from a single vantage point, it’s possible to make comparisons between facilities and thus identify which are high-performing and which aren’t, applying the lessons learned from one group to the other. Successful strategies can be quickly spotted and replicated. Failing strategies can be eliminated.
Count the savings
With increased efficiency come reduced operational costs. Proactive maintenance becomes possible as does improved fault detection both of which reduce downtime and lower repair costs for key systems like HVACs. As we’ve seen, in a portfolio scenario multiple systems (with hundreds of sensors) are often in play, and their performance can be monitored from a single screen.
Sustainability
And, of course, multi-site management enhances sustainability. If you’re increasing energy efficiency, then you’re reducing your carbon footprint across all sites and complying with local and global energy regulations and standards becomes far easier as well. As the latter demands increase and, thus, take up more of the facilities manager’s time, this matters more and more.
Enterprises don’t stand still
All businesses plan to grow yet growth can be challenging. The multi-site EMS/BMS makes growth easier by facilitating the addition of new locations into an existing system without the need for (or cost of) major changes.
Even better, consistent performance standards and policies can be applied across the real estate portfolio, to existing and new facilities alike. The multi-site EMS/BMS, in other words, can scale to your specific needs.
Know what you need to know in a single pane of glass
The single touch point also means aggregation of information and data from across many distributed locations into a single pane of glass. This means building managers can quickly access a comprehensive view of their company’s energy consumption patterns (and act on what it tells them).
Customized reports become easy to create, perhaps tailored to meet the needs of different stakeholders which aids in strategic planning and corporate level decision-making.
There’s even more…
Those are just some of the benefits. A multi-site EMS/BMS also helps improve security, making it easy to implement and monitor performance across numerous sites providing uniform protection to help with responding to incidents and anomalies.
Plus, such systems can be remotely controlled, driving flexible operations with many tasks such as lighting and HVAC control becoming automated, for example based on occupancy patterns or time schedules. Environmental conditions across the portfolio become more consistent, enhancing occupant comfort and customer satisfaction.
Multi-site management means Freedom
One solution for those who want to leverage the benefits of a multi-site EMS/BMS we’ve discussed is Freedom™ from the NexRev portfolio. Freedom is a complete cloud-based EMS/BMS for managing remote sensors, monitoring equipment, and providing a single view of energy consumption and other key metrics across distributed facilities.
With open API interfaces and backed by AI, Freedom delivers the control and insights required to drive efficiency and cost reduction for the business.
It also gives the user a means of consolidating data from energy consuming devices into a single interface (pane of glass) which can be used to track consumption and to control each remote device across the entire infrastructure footprint. Using Freedom is thus key to taking control of energy costs (and consumption), because it can see energy usage in real-time across multiple sites, and remotely control settings, eliminating waste by applying corporate policies.
These are just a few of its benefits. To learn more, contact us here. With reductions in energy costs, service calls, and better performance from its assets, Freedom users are much better placed to meet their commercial goals.
About NexRev
At NexRev, we’ve been unlocking the power of facility and energy management data with over a million connected devices across North America. Our team of experts is focused on helping you deliver more with your budgets, infrastructure, and assets to create sustainable savings in operations and energy, reducing your risk and increasing operational confidence.
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