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BuildingIQ Launches Mobile App for Streamlined Maintenance and Comfort Management
BuildingIQ
(ASX: BIQ) today announces that it has launched a mobile
app designed to provide a building's facilities team with access to
BuildingIQ's (News - Alert) 5i Platform while on-the-go. With the app, members of the
facilities team can identify and submit issues within a facility or
campus, document with mobile photos, and automatically create a
maintenance ticket in the moment. Features can also be enabled to allow
tenants to submit service requests for automatic ticket creation. The
app may also be used to engage tenants on how they feel about the space
by enabling a Comfort module. With Comfort enabled, it takes only a few
seconds for a building occupant to let the facilities team know if a
location is too warm, cold, or just right. This vital feedback is mapped
to building system status and presented through heat maps depicting the
human factor of cooling and heating operations. The BuildingIQ Mobile
App is now available for current BuildingIQ customers utilizing Facility
Worksite.
"Mobile applications can be great for productivity when done right,"
said Mr. Jimmy Cheung, Director, Facilities and Engineering at CN Tower.
"Apps that combine both facilities professional and tenant tools in one
- like BuildingIQ's app - are potentially very valuable in delivering
flexibility, utility and engagement. This is especially true as building
owners, management firms and facility companies all embrace broader
service offerings."
The app is an integral part of BuildingIQ's mobile-focused strategy to
aid facilities teams by improving their efficiency and creating more
powerful technology-enabled services for the buildings industry.
According to Michael Nark, CEO of BuildingIQ, this intuitive app
integrates with our intelligent energy management platform, allowing the
user to document, assign, track and verify tasks in real-time. The
tenant-facing features are a key step in allowing people working within
a building or campus to act as an extension of a building's sensors and
fault detection system, so that issues can be identified and resolved
quicker."
Facilities Manager Features: Streamlined Operations and Insights
Using the Service Center module, each member of the facilities
management team can create and manage work ticket that they created or
have been assigned to them - all in the moment - to improve efficiency.
The Service Center module provides an overview of all work orders so
that managers can ensure operations are running smoothly in real-time.
By enabling the Comfort module of the BuildingIQ Mobile App, facilities
teams will be able to gauge the 'human' impact of their heating and
cooling strategies, by turning tenants into the ultimate building
sensors. Everything is made simpler by using the Goldilocks principle -
a tenant is either 'too cold,' 'too hot,' or 'just right' at any time
during the day. When submitting comfort information, feedback will be
tagged by location within a building by floor and, more specifically, by
the space/zone on that floor. The data can then be used to create heat
maps to correlate hot and cold comfort calls with building system
settings. This will encourage more real-time feedback, replacing hot and
cold calls that occur only once discomfort has escalated to a point of
disruption.
Using the BuildingIQ Mobile App, facilities managers will also be able
to:
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Configure whole floors or spaces within floors
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Obtain a quick overview of aggregated feedback across all tenants and
locations
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See static information about comfort and energy management
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Engage with tenants directly
The BuildingIQ Mobile App is designed to be used by current customers. A Facility
Worksite subscription is the minimum recommended requirement to
benefit from using this app. The BuildingIQ Mobile App is available for
download at the Apple (News - Alert) App Store or Google Play. Learn more at www.buildingiq.com/app.
About BuildingIQ
BuildingIQ (BIQ.AX)
provides technology-enabled services to help building owners and
operators worldwide save energy, increase operational efficiency, and
improve tenant comfort. Through its 5i cloud-based platform, BuildingIQ
delivers on the promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) to help
visualize, analyze, control, and optimize energy usage within a single
facility, campus or portfolio of buildings. More than 100M square feet
of global building space is currently being serviced by BuildingIQ to
reduce operating costs. www.buildingiq.com
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