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Reduces building costs and carbon emissions through convergence of key data leading to lower energy use, better maintenance, vendor and staff efficiency & longer asset life cycles.
About
iFM is the only system to date that consolidates full Building Management System capability with Asset Management, O&M Record Information, Auto Fault reporting, PPM Management and Energy Management operations data into a system of presentation at a reduced price to the current dispersed systems. The software is highly scalable and can be adapted to a multitude of different industries. The first stage of beta testing has been completed on a live client site in the hotel industry with extremely encouraging results. Although substantial building operations data is available, in most cases it is fragmented across a variety of systems in different locations and can only be collated manually. In addition, current software solutions rarely cater for the collection of data from factory-packaged controllers in UPS systems, generators or packaged A/C units whereas iFM does and then combines this data with BMS, FM and EMS data into a single system database. iFM still requires further beta testing, market readiness software development and final user interface polish prior to launch. The project is at a stage for a major partner to assist with commercialisation. All iFM screens can be navigated from animated graphic diagrams iFM Beta Test Results The next beta test site will harvest data from factory-packaged controllers in UPS systems, generators, packaged A/C units and combine this data with BMS, FM and EMS data into a single system. Mentor believe the most cost effective route to market is vis SaaS offering access for users to monitor and control asset data within a cloud data base which is managed by remote centralised skilled engineers expert at driving energy costs down through improved control strategies.
Key Benefits
iFM correlates data into a single data base enabling the analysis of the performance of engineering assets to take place through the visibility of data in one place. This is a major improvement on the present structure of disparate systems, which are rarely sited in the same building resulting in no correlation of performance data taking place and inefficiencies no-one is aware of. iFM therefore is significantly cheaper than other systems available on the market (of which a representative example is IBM’s Maximo System). The iFM system can be deployed locally on site or as a cloud based solution hosted by building engineering expert organisations and sold as a software service. This can be replicated locally, regionally, nationally and globally With compatibility across different market segments iFM becomes a highly scalable proposition. There have been thousands of building management systems sold in every country over the last 30 years with an urgent on-going market for the replacement of central PC based software. iFM will be ideally placed to offer a new generation of software tools to meet this market and help to future proof systems as the current software ages and become obsolete. Many benefits of IFM were proven on the initial Hotel beta test site, where iFM has recorded automatically and issued instructions automatically through the hotel’s telephone system for the repair of over 40,000 bedroom faults over a period of 2 years, which were preventing the room from being offered to guests. Impressively, the iFM system filtered, sorted and issued reports on these faults in relation to assets and order of occurrence. The impact of iFM on the hotel’s business is summarised below: It highlighted the most reoccurring bedroom fault (blocked hand basin) enabling a permanent corrective solution to be introduced. It provided reports of the most effective engineers at fixing faults enabling Ineffective engineers to be educated or replaced. It provided performance summaries on the most reliable televisions, kettles, irons and lamps thus improving the hotel’s purchasing strategies. It gave management knowledge of the most difficult room devices clients struggle with e.g. door entry device, min and max toilet flushers, showers, internet access etc. It improved efficiency of engineers resulting in them taking over security duties and releasing security sub-contract staff (i.e. a 25% reduction in headcount).