Case Study

Unifying Building Management Platforms: A Centralized Approach With entroCIM

Project Summary

Customer

Financial services company

Challenge

Unifying and centralizing legacy building management systems across almost 20 locations and covering 200,000 square feet to enhance operations.

Solution

Implementation of entroCIM Central Intelligence Manager, integrating building management systems into a single point for command, control and analytics.

Results

Unified building management improving consistency and ease-of-use across their portfolio
Cloud-based deployment
Consistent visualization and workflows across locations
Data analysis and reporting
Improved building management and operational efficiency

The Challenge: Unifying Disparate Building Management Systems Across Locations

A financial services company in Ontario faced complex challenges in managing facilities and operational needs across nearly three dozen branches. The branches, acquired through both steady growth and mergers and acquisitions, operated on independent platforms due to the sites’ various ages and technological backgrounds. This resulted in inconsistencies in monitoring and control – particularly in terms of comfort, maintenance and energy management. The company needed a solution to unify and integrate these disparate systems and to help manage its growing portfolio from a central portal going forward.

The Solution: Streamlining and Centralizing Facility Operations With entroCIM Integration

In close collaboration with the company’s IT team, the entroCIM team at Wesco developed an approach that allowed the company to implement a single pane of glass (SPOG) dashboard that connected systems and integrated data from multiple sites. Once the solution was agreed upon, a plan for site-by-site deployment of a cloud-based access point was established, enabling control upgrades and other projects. API-based connectors to indoor air quality sensors at the organization’s headquarters brought additional insights into occupant comfort that could be easily expanded throughout their portfolio without requiring expensive vendor-based installation.

entroCIM Deployment: Solution Scope

4,000+ point count
Cloud-based deployment
Legacy systems integration
API connectors
Dashboarding
Alarming

Graphics
Analytics
Reporting
Cloud hosting
Subject matter expert support

API
BACnet
LON
nHaystack

Electrical
Generator
HVAC
Indoor air quality

Lighting
Snow melt
Uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
Utility metering

The Results: Enterprise-Wide Consistency and Future-Ready Upgrades

By unifying the company’s different systems into one aggregated platform, the teams were able to provide consistency in visualization and cloud-based workflow management systems. This meant that as new sites came online, additional training wasn’t required; branch operators could simply transition from vendor-specific frontends to the entroCIM interface.

This customized solution delivered a trusted, easy-to-deploy platform that not only integrated legacy systems but also aids in the prioritization of future projects and upgrades by providing analyses and reporting on site health and performance.