Engineering departments in today’s health care environment are tasked with an ever-growing list of responsibilities, such as emergency readiness, PMs, reactive maintenance, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing infection control, maintaining life cycle budgets, managing utility spend, and the list goes on. In many cases, these responsibilities must be addressed, even though departmental resources are held steady or actually reduced year over year. Fortunately, the explosion of connected devices and the Building Internet of Things (BIoT) has revolutionized the way facility operators interact with the built environment, ensuring even the most resource-constrained engineering departments are able to address the multitude of operational challenges they must resolve on a day-to-day basis.
Data is everywhere in the built environment; however, it’s rarely used to maximize its full potential. Connecting to a building’s existing data sources does not need to be a heavy lift, and with the right tools and appropriate expertise in place, an enhanced analytics program can be deployed swiftly to transform the data into a steady source of operational value.