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Smart Building Products for Owners
Smart buildings are driven by outcomes rather than technology. Smart buildings achieve great outcomes with the least amount of technology and cost. Smart means that a building is accessible for everyday people to gain wisdom and insight to operate effectively, not just engineers.
Smart buildings feature numerous systems that require integration using BACnet, Modbus, REST API and may include systems such as HVAC, central plant, VRF, lighting, hydraulic systems, along with energy, water, gas monitoring.
Optergy’s Smart Building Software has more than 50 built-in applications providing insight, enabling smart controls, metering, utilities billing, after-hours billing, automated reporting, live dashboards and foyer displays.
For owners and consultants, Optergy brings
50+ built-in applications to enable smart buildings to give you greater business advantage:
Easy HVAC Management
Apps for users, groups, scheduling, trend logging and notification management make it easy to manage your HVAC systems and ensures building conditions are always comfortable.
Consistent Reporting
With standardized apps inside every Optergy product, it’s easy to produce a standard reporting format across assets for utilities such as gas, water, electricity, thermal, diesel and waste.
Easy Configuration
Buildings are dynamic environments. When tenants change a smart building is dynamic enough to change with it. Optergy’s tenant billing app allows owners and FM’s to update tenant billing details easily without calling in a contractor.
Cost Recovery
Automated utilities billing app to bill tenants based on consumption and demand from metered utilities. In addition, add after-hours billing to recover costs related to tenant usage that is outside the agreed lease hours. Tenants can engage the system using the Optergy mobile app on demand, or schedule in advance.
Combined BMS and EMS
To achieve real efficiency. Building tuning requires insight, not just raw data. HVAC plant makes up 70% of electricity consumption in a typical commercial building. Tuning the HVAC operation, then directly seeing live the impact on energy performance provides insight and a constant feedback loop enabling continuous improvement. BMS and EMS combined provide insights that are more valuable than the sum of both parts.
Demand Management
Allows HVAC plant to be linked to the main incoming electricity demand. Optergy’s demand management app then automatically controls demand ensuring you never exceed defined limits, saving thousands in demand charges.
Optergy brings Outcomes
Optergy enables great outcomes with enough technology (but not complex or excessive) to service the smart building needs. For owners these outcomes include building a smart workplace that has:
Lower Annual Operating Costs
Apps for users, groups, scheduling, trend logging and notification management make it easy to manage your HVAC systems and ensures building conditions are always comfortable.
Less Capital Expense
Reduced load on HVAC plant through energy-conscious building improvements means less wear and tear, and longer plant lifecycles leading to reduced capital expenditure over the life of the asset.
Improved Reputation
Commitment to “greening” workspaces through energy-conscious building improvements, attracts tenants who are committed to corporate social responsibility.
Lower Vacancy Rates
Tenants appreciate lower outgoings through energy savings and improved corporate social responsibility status and are much more likely to stay for a longer term.
Improved WALE
WALE (weighted average lease expiry), securing long term tenants drives up a buildings WALE. Long term tenants mean secure rental income, which makes an asset attractive to potential investors.
Improved Asset Value
Attractive investments command a premium value.
Improved Productivity
Wages make up to 2/3 of a business operating expense. For tenants or owner-occupiers, energy-conscious improvements often lead to healthier working environments, which result in less sick days and more productive employees.
Building systems that are easily understood, become engaging. Once something is engaging, it becomes a habit. If it becomes a habit, it becomes easy. All of a sudden, systems that were once frustrating become the greatest tools for managing a building.