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Service contractors and building managers turn to HVAC mobile apps for convenient remote access to building controls. A cloud-connected HVAC monitoring strategy helps your team to access information like current equipment status, alarms, schedules, and operating data on the phone or tablet the technicians are already carrying.

“Every day is different.”

It can be difficult to achieve HVAC energy efficiency in a single building, let alone across an entire campus. Yet that is what facility managers in the healthcare industry are tasked with doing. With facilities often spread across a city, and even sometimes involving broader regional campuses, it can be difficult for a healthcare campus to achieve HVAC energy efficiency markers.

Every manager of multi-tenant commercial buildings, regardless of industry, faces the same struggle: how to achieve HVAC efficiency when every tenant uses the system differently. 

Building automation service providers face frequent urgent requests. One minute you’re on-site for maintenance on a local building automation system and the next you’re rushing out the door to service another location. While it’s good to be busy, things could be simpler. ODIN users appreciate the time and money they save with remote monitoring and control.

Building automation systems have many benefits for owners, facility managers, and occupants. Here are just a few of the things automation can do for your facility:

A unique set of obstacles regularly challenges technicians and facility maintenance contractors servicing assisted living facilities. You may have a campus of buildings to look after, a series of individual living units with unique resident needs, or even multiple communities that you serve. This can present certain technical problems that, in the past, were considered the cost of doing business.

It takes more than a skilled team of techs and a BMS to maintain an optimal, compliant environment in your residential care facility. The residents in your care are counting on you for fast responses to any HVAC issues and minimal disruption in their environments for maintenance or system checkups. 

Assisted living facility managers know the importance of putting residents first. A consistent and carefully controlled environment is critical to the health, comfort, and safety of everyone in the facility’s care. Nonetheless, sudden HVAC equipment outages can lead to maintenance downtime that’s inconvenient at best and potentially a serious risk at worst.