Building Management

What is Building Management Software (BMS)? And how can your company benefit from it? In the security industry, a poorly managed BMS is everyone's worst nightmare. It doesn't have to be that way though. The core software of Sky-Walker makes sure everything is running smoothly 24/7.

What is building management?

Building management system allows organizations to monitor and control all technical and security installations within their buildings such as lighting, heating ventilation and cooling (HVAC), power meters, the elevators and escalators, fire panels, intrusion, access control system, camera systems (CCTV) and so on. To manage the system of your building, the building management software is the ideal solution. All systems comfort

The ultimate goal is to reduce the yearly operational cost of the building based on monitoring and controlling the energy consumption, tracking and solving technical problems much faster and providing more comfort and safety to all occupants of the building.

The building management system software features

The building management system software will allow you to perform a multitude of actions thanks to its numerous functionalities. All these features will be visible via the user interface which will allow you to have a global vision on your systems.

Alarm handling

Resolve alarms on your systems via the alarm manager

Management systems

Monitor and control the status of your comfort systems

Maintenance systems

Monitor and check the status of your systems

User management

Manage the rights of your users and decide on the actions of each one

Incident manager

Predefine the manual or automatic actions to be taken during an incident via workflows

Reports and statistics

Generate reports and statistics on your incidents but also on your systems

What are the benefits of using a BMS software?

The building management software will allow you to benefit from many advantages. Indeed, in addition to the fact that you will be able to have a better comfort and well-being in your infrastructures, you will be able to benefit from direct advantages for your company.

Situational Awareness

PSIM software enables the user to quickly identify and handle alarms and events, following a pre-defined workflow to minimize risk.

Cost Reduction

Via the graphical user interface of the building management software controlling and optimizing the parameters of HVAC and lighting installations becomes very intuitive. Reports and dashboards can also be created.

Optimize maintenance

Via the building management software operational hours of equipment can be collected in order to plan preventive maintenance based on the actual operational hours such as lights, pumps and so on.

Incident management

For all critical alarms in both technical and security installations, the building management software allows the user to define the complete process flow required to solve the incident.

Cost Control

The building systems causing big cost consumption can easily be identified. As a result, measurements such as schedules on lighting and cooling systems, reductions in the fresh air in-take in winter time, active free-cooling during the nights in summer and so on can be taken.

Easy track and solve

The graphical user interface of the building management software provides an easy way to track issues to their source. For instance if the technical staff receives a complaint that it is too cold at the office, they can track down the issue via the graphical interface by navigating between floor plans and technical drawings of air handling units, distribution circuits, boilers and so on.

Who is involved in the use of a BMS?

The building management software is a platform for a multitude of actions. Depending on the type of actions you wish to perform on the platform, a staff member of your company will intervene and you will be able to delegate the actions to the competent staff.

Technical staff

The technical staff will use the graphical user interface of the building management software on a daily base to solve all technical issues, handle all security and safety alarms, manage highly critical incidents and control the parameters of all technical installations.

Security and Facility managers

The building management software provides the facility manager tools to define the processes for general operation and maintenance of the building and to follow up with the technical staff via reports and dashboards.

Board members

While board members, or senior managers, often do not require knowledge about all the field activities of the building management software solution they have in place, customized dashboard and reporting will have an enormous added value to them. They can easily identify the pitfalls of their security and building infrastructure.

The usage of building management solutions

When using a Building Management System, companies must be above all thinking about the safety and the comfort experienced in the environment it is set in. This mindset is key as the inhabitants are the first ones affected by any incident arising within the building.

Designed specifically for smart building management, a BMS software solutions allows for all safety and comfort systems to be integrated and connected in an intuitive interface in order to keep any operator aware of the situation within an environment. This aims at effectively identifying the origin of the technical incident when one occurs. Once identified, a procedure will guide the operator on the course of actions to follow in order to resolve the matter.

Identifying at an early stage can also be highly beneficial in terms of cost-savings. Each deficient subsystems can be fixed before causing costly issues.

What does our Sky Walker BMS software look like?

BMS software solutions is mainly represented on 2 screens. The first one allows users to have a specific view of the systems. The second screen allows operators to manage situations that may occur on the systems.

Our BMS software is fully customizable and you will be able to add all the features you want. You can also add other screens even if the basic configuration is composed of 2 screens.

You have 100% complete customisation such as images, colours and fonts. Moreover, all icons are customizable thanks to a complete icon library that we provide. Below is an overview of our bms building management system and you can discover it in more detail via Building management system software demo.