Portfolio-wide EMS/BMS: multi-site management at your fingertips – the single pane of glass
As we’ll see, the advantages of deploying an Energy and Building Management Solution platform to manage your portfolio are numerous.
Why is a cloud based, multi-site Energy and Building Management System (EMS/BMS) solution essential for your multi-site property portfolio? While managing a single facility is often challenging; managing a portfolio of properties can become impossible without the right tools.
Multiple sites increase the complexity of performance optimization, reporting, and synchronizing multiple different systems with vital information to achieve the best possible overall outcomes. And that’s without considering the reality that portfolios are by nature fluid.
What portfolio managers need, in simple terms, is access to “everything they need to know at a glance”. What that means is having control of all the properties (and systems within them) at your fingertips.
Facilities-at-a-glance: why it matters
If a platform can manage multiple sites from a single interface a wide variety of benefits can be accrued. But what, specifically, are these advantages? Here are some key ones:
1. Get a single source of control
A comprehensive view of performance across an entire portfolio of properties makes it far easier to monitor, control, and optimize building operations regardless of the number of locations involved. It enables teams to streamline operations by staying on top of systems like HVAC, lighting, security, and energy usage from a single interface, without the need to manage multiple different systems independently for each site.
2. More efficient energy usage
Multi-site management means portfolio-wide energy consumption data can be gathered and monitored in real time, allowing inefficiencies and anomalies to be spotted quickly, usually in real time. This also means usage can be compared across different sites, identifying opportunities for savings and allowing recommendations for optimization to be made.
3. Better analytics
With a central platform gathering data from across the portfolio into a single source, enhanced data analysis is made possible and better insights result from it. For example, performance data from different sites can be compared to create benchmarks, in the process identifying both high-performing locations and those where performance improvement is required.
4. Keeping things running
A single platform can detect equipment issues portfolio-wide and send out alerts where required, minimizing downtime and reducing the risk of equipment failures. Even better, facilities managers can often troubleshoot issues remotely from a single platform, resolving problems more quickly and reducing the need for costly site visits.
5. Supporting the evolving portfolio
Adding new sites to the single platform, as the portfolio evolves, is usually simple meaning new management systems often don’t need to be added when new locations come into play. Furthermore, individual sites can have customized control settings, still allowing flexibility in how each site is operated.
6. Know your portfolio
From the perspective of compliance with energy and building regulations, as data from multiple sites is available, getting access to key reporting information is simplified. And from the perspective of management reporting, the single platform can automatically generate reports on energy usage, carbon emissions, and other key metrics across all sites, improving sustainability as well as reporting outputs.
7. Higher standards
Using a single platform, multiple sites using the same solution generally results in more consistent performance and policy compliance across the portfolio. This consistency reduces costs and the likelihood of operational errors.
8. Achieve goals
We’ve seen how energy usage is optimized with multi-site management. This, of course, helps the portfolio meet its sustainability goals. Businesses can easily implement, and make customers aware of, more efficient energy practices and strategies.
The answer: Freedom from NexRev
Perhaps the best example for the kind of cloud based, multi-site, EMS/BMS platform we’re discussing, for those property managers who want to leverage the benefits, is Freedom™ from NexRev.
Freedom provides a single view of energy consumption and other key metrics across distributed facilities. Leveraging AI, the platform delivers the control and insights required to drive efficiencies and cost reduction for the business.
Freedom gives property managers a way to consolidate data from energy consuming devices into a single interface meaning it can then be used to track consumption and control each individual device. Users can see usage in real-time across multiple sites, and remotely control settings, eliminating waste by applying corporate policies.
To learn more, click 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 by leveraging the advantages of multi-site portfolio management.
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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