FM Innovators' Blog

FMTech Insights: How AI technology enables plumbing systems to talk

Jan 30, 2023

FMTech Insights is a series where subject matter experts and thought leaders in FMTech share their knowledge and opinions on the topic of their expertise; helping the industry learn, innovate and grow. The series will cover every sector in FM – from workplace management, operations and maintenance, energy management, waste management and everything in between.

Alexandre McCormack is the CEO of Shayp, a digital native firm that helps public and private organisations reduce water consumption in buildings thanks to artificial intelligence. Using only water meter data, Shayp's AI reveals water consumption anomalies and leakages in buildings and guides operators to improve the situation.

 

A Veolia facility manager once told me they checked their client’s water meter index every week. In case there was a significant jump in consumption, they’d send his facility management teams on a hunt to find any potential leakages.

Knowing that weekly...

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FMTech Insights: Visibility Into Building Operations Is Anything but Straightforward, Here’s Why

Dec 12, 2022

FMTech Insights is a series where subject matter experts and thought leaders in FMTech share their knowledge and opinions on the topic of their expertise; helping the industry learn, innovate and grow. The series will cover every sector in FM – from workplace management, operations and maintenance, energy management, waste management and everything in between.

Raj Subramanian is the Co-founder of Facilio, an AI-driven property operations platform that helps real estate owners and operators aggregate hard-to-access building data, optimize performance, and control portfolio operations - all from one place.

 

With the world returning to the workplace either partially or fully, commercial building owners are vying with each other to differentiate using technology. Which technology to adopt, do our current solutions support delivery of optimal tenant experience and meet the evolving needs of the post-pandemic workplace seem to be the top questions running in the...

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Beyond Data-driven, Intelligent Maintenance Solutions for Facility Management

Dec 05, 2022

Cost control, climate action and digitalisation of systems are the most critical challenges that maintenance specialists have been facing since the beginning of 2022.

Going digital in maintenance activities means going paperless and working with data to automate workflows within the building and its value chain. In this way, corporate facilities and asset managers can focus on tasks that need human intelligence and efforts to get energy costs under control and work towards net zero.

Industry 5.0 has already started, and its intention is clear: to bring humans back to the forefront, to use technology for the greater good, improve the way we interact with it, and achieve a greater work-life balance. Maintenance and Facility Management, which share responsibilities in creating safe and comfortable environments for people, must be included.

“It might be too early to tell which emerging technologies will revolutionise our industries for good, but there’s no doubt that they...

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Cleaning activities playing “hard to get” in terms of digitalization

Dec 05, 2022

Cleaning is often regarded as the simplest of the facilities management activities, but it is among the most difficult to innovate on, digitally speaking.

There are several reasons for this and one of the main reasons is that the cleaning industry employs very large groups of lower-paid individuals, which makes it harder to find enough efficiencies to make significant financial difference while using a digital solution.

But beyond strict financial regards, it is found, though, that the benefits of digitalization in terms of building user experience and employee engagement are high. Making the cleaners’ work visible, addressable, and adaptive is a big plus for stakeholders.

What exact shapes do these benefits take, and who are the firms that are making a difference in digitalization of cleaning activities these days?

Going digital: not only with cleaning, but also detecting points of interest for other facility partners in the building

Diane van Dijk, Sales Director of CSU...

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FMTech is Enabling the “New Workplace”

Dec 05, 2022

The so-called “great return to the workplace” has been dominating the news of late – with some tech giants like Uber pushing for a 100% return to physical work while others, like Airbnb, have adopted a live-and-work-anywhere policy. Whichever end of the work-spectrum we look at, hybrid work is indeed here to stay. But what exactly is hybrid work?

Max Verteletskyi, CEO of Spaceti, defines it as the ability to work from an ecosystem of places – let’s say you can perform some of the focus work from your home, more collaborative work from your company office location or nearby coworking centre, and some creative work from a café or even a hotel somewhere in the Alps that could give the right inspiration and vibe.

“In my opinion, the lines are being blurred between the types of physical space. More importance will be given to the quality of space, which will become more of a benefit for employees. As a result, ‘Space Management’...

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Smart Cleaning: How is it Driving the Cleaning Industry and the Challenges that Come Along with It

Dec 05, 2022

The cleaning industry has without a doubt undergone massive transformation in the last 2 years. The Covid-19 pandemic has not only necessitated but more importantly, accelerated this transformation, ushering in an era of digitalization, or as many in the built environment industry would call it – smart cleaning. 

Smart Cleaning Revolutionizes Cleaning Industry

Smart cleaning technologies encompass in large part the installation of IoT sensors and request buttons that are often integrated in the digital workplace management solutions. The result of this integration is a more dynamic way of cleaning that takes into consideration occupancy, foot traffic and real-time requests from building occupants.

This is a stark improvement from static cleaning before where cleaning is done on regular and specific intervals regardless of the number of building occupants or actual requests and need for cleaning. IoT devices are also being used to track high volume and value mobile...

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FMTech Insights: Savings Generated by Better Parking Management in the Era of Hybrid Working

Dec 05, 2022

FMTech Insights is a series where subject matter experts and thought leaders in FMTech share their knowledge and opinions on the topic of their expertise; helping the industry learn, innovate and grow. The series will cover every sector in FM – from workplace management, operations and maintenance, energy management, waste management and everything in between.

Paweł Postupalski is the Co-founder of Parkey, an intuitive SaaS platform for facility managers and employees that creates interactive parking map, basic configuration and provides access to back-office panel resulting in 30% better utilization of parking lots. Pawel, an IT expert, is also in charge of Parkey's product development.

Better parking management saves up to €350,000 per year for a single office building

Hybrid working offers many advantages, but also the need to harness corporate resources, which need to be more flexible. To put it bluntly, corporate resources management cannot keep...

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What is the Influence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Facility Management?

Sep 29, 2022

All facility managers will agree that the environments we take care of are “mini-societies” in which happiness, health, comfort, hygiene, and good-working assets are the basics of our corporations functioning well in their core activities.

We manage many different aspects of the lives of the bees in our hives -- from their access to food via the restaurants we cater for them to the air that they breathe in our buildings. Whatever industrial revolution there may be, it will have a profound effect on us facility managers as it will quickly influence one, or more, or even all our activities.

But what does "fourth industrial revolution" mean exactly and that "profound effect", how does that take shape in facility management? 

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

The term “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” was coined in 2016  by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF), via a book published with the...

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FMTech Insights: Cut Energy Costs & Optimize Operations with Big Data & IoT

Jun 06, 2022

 

FMTech Insights is a series where subject matter experts and thought leaders in FMTech share their knowledge and opinions on the topic of their expertise; helping the industry learn, innovate and grow. The series will cover every sector in FM – from workplace management, operations and maintenance, energy management, waste management and everything in between.

Christine Brukhty is the Business Development & Marketing Manager at HiPer IT, a family of big data and IoT PropTech democratizing optimization of Facility Management. It's HiPerWare enables achieving current business goals in FM such as energy consumption and CO2 emission reduction with simple to install, implement and use platform, HVAC systems detailed digital trail for ESG reporting, subcontractor services assessment and retrofit investment analysis, simplification and unification of field services through creation of real time digital twin...

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FMTech Insights: Asset Management - A Live View of the Equipment Fleet

May 16, 2022

FMTech Insights is a series where subject matter experts and thought leaders in FMTech share their knowledge and opinions on the topic of their expertise; helping the industry learn, innovate and grow. The series will cover every sector in FM – from workplace management, operations and maintenance, energy management, waste management and everything in between.

Alexander Manafi is the CEO & Co-founder at ToolSense which allows you to digitize your machine and service management, keeping track of mobile machines (those big machines used in cleaning, for example). It does this through a simple scan of a QR code in the machine which digitizes issue reporting and machine ticketing. ToolSense IOT hardware installed in the machines is a "Plug & Play" IoT hardware that allows you to easily and cheaply network machines from any manufacturer .

FMTech Insights: Asset Management - A Live View of the Equipment Fleet

Currently, there is an increasing awareness...

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