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WHAT MAKES SMART BUILDING SERVICES DIFFERENT?

A CUSTOMISED SOLUTION:

Unlike traditional companies who provide building automation by taking disparate products and patching them together; Smart Building Services designs and builds integrated technology solutions to suit each brief.

WE CAN HELP YOU:

• Reduce Operating Expenses (and helps the environment!):
  Experience indicates that residents in sub-metered dwellings who receive bills based on their actual utility usage, decrease consumption by an estimated 18-39%. As residents become more aware of their usage and are required to pay for what they use, they work harder to conserve and reduce waste. This modification in tenant habits results in a significant reduction in operating costs for the property owner and environmental costs.
• It’s Fair:
  Tenants pay for what they use. They pay for their actual water consumption and not an amount calculated by a formula.
• Tenants Held Financially Responsible:
  With sub-metering, the financial burden of utility costs is transferred to the residents. By shifting the responsibility of expenses, property owners reduce their exposure to increases in utility rates.
• Increases Property Value:
  As a capital investment, the cost of sub-metering is generally tax deductible. Therefore, apartment owners can increase their properties' net operating income and thus, increase the loan and resale value of their properties through implementing a sub-metering system.
• Prevents Waste:
  Water sub-metering encourages residents to report leaks to the property manager promptly. This allows small problems to be taken care of before they become major repairs.
• Timely, Accurate and Cost Effective:
  An automatic meter reading (AMR) system allows remote data retrieval. This eliminates the labour, cost, and potential liability of having a person access tenant’s property on a regular basis. Accurate billing for move-outs and move-ins are easier. Utility billing with an AMR system is more accurate than manually reading and entering numbers into a hand held device. Efficient use of metering hardware where each device can fulfil multiple functions. Power-Line Carrier (PLC) sub-metering systems are less costly to install than wired and walk-by systems, especially for broad-acre developments.
• Integration with Other Systems:
  Integration of all metering functions allows monitoring and control over a single network using a common protocol System monitoring is from a single network access point reducing management and maintenance resource requirements.
• Energy management:

All devices can be programmed to suit building functions. When a space, area or function is not being used, control devices shut down appropriate systems to save energy. Distributed intelligence allows buildings to interact with the local environment to ensure a comfortable internal environment is maintained for building users.

Any current or future system additions, alterations, or variations are simple and cost effective to implement; products from different manufacturers will interoperate seamlessly across the network.

System has the ability to connect and interface to telephone systems, local networks, and the Internet.