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 Interior & Exterior Shade Control System
 Weather Station Monitoring System

 Window Washing System
 Water Reclamation
Most IBMS systems will incorporate all of the traditional building management functions such as
document management, trending, system scheduling and data archiving. However, in addition there
is an integration into the Facility Management (FM) systems such as work orders, asset
management, inventory, and maintenance. Further integration with the Building Information
Management (BIM) systems of the building will map the building, its systems and components in
3D. This will allow for a truly integrated and optimized building where in an alarm in the IBMS
triggers the FM system and the BIM system provides a real time 3‐D view of the situation, its location
and possible fix. This creates a “meta” building database to help improve building operations and
engineering.

Other aspects that could be part of an IBMS system include performance analytics which tie in
automatic fault detection and diagnostic (FDD) applications to optimize the performance of the
building systems. It provides on‐going commissioning, keeping the largest energy consumption
system at optimal performance.

7.4.2 Dashboards
With a highly instrumented building, there will be lots of data which will become available. Data
from sensors, meters, and databases will all provide the basis for not only energy management but
also the overall comfort and well‐being of occupants in the building. However, “raw” data is really
not of any value unless it is processed, analysed and then combined with other pieces of data to
establish some manner to “act” or control or make a change to improve.
In order to understand what data is available and the results of analysis, visualization of this
information is paramount and this is normally provided in the form of some form of user interface
(UI) or building dashboard. With the many different stakeholders in a building, there will be different
“views” for dashboards. In the SFPUC, there are over 400 dashboards which provide the facilities
team, building operators, executives, employees and even visitors with information specific to their
needs. Users of this information then use this data to improve the building performance and
operation.

7.4.3 Analytics

A state of the art smart building typically will have analytics as part of the software suite along with
the IBMS and dashboards. Once data is available in a building, the next step is to analyse the data
and then determine how to improve the building performance using that data. This analysis is
achieved through dedicated analytics software. Such software will help organize, manage, analyse
data collected from various building systems and present them in a clear and concise manner via
the dashboard. This provides a good insight into the operational performance of the building.
Analytics enables the operations and facilities teams of the building to find patterns and issues that
they were not aware of, patterns that were not anticipated, expected or even imagined. Analytics
provide results that show how the building actually operates versus how it was either designed to
operate or expected to operate. Examples of benefits include immediate notification of system
anomalies for proactive maintenance, building equipment lifecycle extension, reduction in energy
consumption, identification of energy savings opportunities, and validation of energy savings.

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