Equipment fault detection across sites
Rules watch chiller delta-T, AHU fan status, pump run hours and temperature trends from the BMS. A failing unit raises an alarm with the equipment, site and trend before comfort complaints arrive.
Facilities & Energy
Your buildings already know what is wrong. Nobody is asking them.
Energy, environment, occupancy and equipment condition across every site — so facilities teams manage a portfolio by exception instead of a queue of complaints.
- Built for
- Facilities, energy and portfolio managers
- Connects
- BMS, meters and environment sensors
- Deploys
- Sovereign cloud, private cloud or on-site
/ The shift /
What is actually happening today — and what changes.
Flip between the operation as it runs now and the operation once the data is joined up.
- 01Faults are reported by people.
Which means the first indicator of a chiller problem is a complaint from the third floor.
- 02Energy is a monthly bill.
Not a pattern, not a per-system number, and not something anyone can act on.
- 03Contractors are managed on trust.
Response and completion are hard to evidence.
/ How it works /
From signal to decision in four moves.
Each step runs on the shared IoT Cube foundation, so nothing here is a separate system to maintain.
- 1
Connect every building
Existing BMS, sub-meters and air-quality sensors are read across the portfolio, with wireless sensors added where the BMS does not reach.
- 2
Model the portfolio
Points are mapped to site, floor, system and equipment, so energy and faults can be compared building against building.
- 3
Find what is wrong
Fault rules and consumption baselines spot failing equipment, out-of-hours loads and poor indoor conditions before occupants notice.
- 4
Escalate to whoever fixes it
The responsible contractor gets a timed work order, escalation runs if the SLA slips, and closure is evidenced in the record.
/ What you get /
Capability, not just visibility.
Energy anomalies by site and system
Sub-meter data is profiled by time of day and day type. Consumption above baseline, or loads running out of hours, is flagged per building and system.
Indoor environment and occupancy
Temperature, humidity, CO₂ and occupancy sensors are read per zone, so conditions can be compared with occupancy and ventilation adjusted where it is needed.
Timed escalation to contractors
Alarms open work orders against the responsible contractor with an SLA timer. Unacknowledged or overdue jobs escalate automatically, and response times are recorded.
Portfolio benchmarking and sustainability
Consumption is normalised by floor area, occupancy and weather, so buildings can be compared fairly and sustainability reports draw on measured data.
Water, power and gas together
All utility meters sit in the same site hierarchy, so a building’s full consumption is visible and attributable in one view.
/ Use cases /
Where teams put it to work first.
Find failing HVAC equipment
Watch chiller delta-T, AHU status and pump run hours, and raise a contractor job before occupants start complaining.
Stop out-of-hours energy waste
Flag lighting, HVAC and plant loads running outside occupied hours, per building and system, on the night it happens.
Hold contractors to SLAs
Open timed work orders against the responsible contractor, escalate overdue jobs, and record response and completion.
Benchmark the portfolio
Compare energy intensity and indoor conditions building against building, normalised for floor area, occupancy and weather.
/ Benefits by team /
Every team gets a different answer from the same record.
01
Facilities
Equipment reports its own condition, so the team manages the portfolio by exception rather than by complaint.
02
Finance
Energy is attributable by site, system and period, and savings are measured against a recorded baseline.
03
Sustainability
Reports draw on continuous, measured consumption across water, power and gas instead of monthly bills.
04
IT
Different BMS brands are read over BACnet or Modbus into one model, with read-only access unless control is approved.
/ In practice /
What it looks like on an ordinary Tuesday.
Three moments where the platform earns its place. Scenarios are illustrative.
The signal
The chilled-water delta-T on a Riyadh office tower’s main chiller narrows through a June afternoon.
- 1
The fault rule flags low delta-T and rising energy per tonne on that chiller.
- 2
A work order goes to the HVAC contractor with the trend and SLA timer.
- 3
The technician finds fouled tubes and schedules cleaning during low load.
The outcome
The chiller is fixed before the third floor calls to complain.
/ Technology /
Four layers. One record underneath.
Device-neutral at the bottom, open at the top, and sovereign all the way through.
01
Devices in the field
Keep the hardware you already have
- BMS via BACnet and Modbus
- Energy meters and sub-meters
- Environment and air-quality sensors
- Occupancy sensors
- Chiller and HVAC controllers
02
Connectivity & protocols
Any carrier, any protocol
- BACnet/IP
- Modbus TCP / RTU
- MQTT
- LoRaWAN
- M-Bus
- OPC UA
- Ethernet and Wi-Fi on site
03
IoT Cube platform
Sovereign, multi-tenant, AI-neutral
- Asset & identity record
- Time-series store
- Rules & alerting engine
- Workflow automation
- Reporting & exports
- Role-based access & audit
04
Your systems of record
Data lands where decisions are made
- FM and work-order systems
- ERP
- Sustainability reporting
- Tenant portals
/ What you measure /
Numbers that replace arguments.
The indicators this solution produces continuously, per asset, per site and per contract.
Energy intensity
Energy consumed per square metre, per building and period, normalised for weather.
Out-of-hours load
Consumption outside occupied hours, by site and system.
Equipment faults open
Active equipment alarms by site, system and age.
Contractor SLA compliance
Jobs acknowledged and closed within agreed response and completion times.
Indoor environment compliance
Time each zone spends within temperature, humidity and CO₂ targets.
Complaint-led versus detected faults
Share of faults found by monitoring rather than reported by occupants.
/ Rollout /
Start with one decision. Scale what works.
- Phase 1
Survey buildings and systems
We review the portfolio, BMS brands, meters and FM contracts, and choose buildings where energy or complaints are hardest to explain.
- Phase 2
Connect pilot buildings
BMS points, sub-meters and environment sensors in the pilot buildings are mapped into the portfolio model and FM system.
- Phase 3
Prove manage-by-exception
Fault and energy alerts run through contractor escalation, and the facilities team confirms they arrive before occupants complain.
- Phase 4
Bring in the portfolio
Remaining buildings, utilities and contractors join on the same model and benchmarks. Weeks, not quarters, per wave.
/ Security & sovereignty /
Sovereign is a place, not a promise.
In-Kingdom residency
Data stored and processed inside Saudi Arabia, on infrastructure you can name in a tender.
Built to national controls
Designed to align with NCA cybersecurity controls and the Personal Data Protection Law.
Isolated by tenant
Tenant isolation, role-based access and a full audit trail across users, actions and devices.
Your cloud or site
Deploy into a sovereign cloud, your private cloud or on-premises without becoming a different product.
/ Built on IoT Cube /
Runs on the platform, not beside it.
Products already running this solution on the shared foundation.
/ Industries /
Where this solution shows up.
Industry
Manufacturing & Industry
Machines, utilities and mobile plant reporting condition before they stop.
Industry
Healthcare & Pharma
Continuous cold chain evidence, produced as a by-product of the operation.
Industry
Smart Cities & Public Sector
Sovereign hosting and a full audit trail as the entry condition, not a feature.
/ Questions /
Frequently asked.
We already have a BMS.
Good. We connect it rather than replace it, and add the sites and systems it does not reach.
Can this support sustainability reporting?
Yes — consumption is captured continuously and attributably, which is what those reports need.
Does it work across buildings with different BMS brands?
Yes. Each BMS is read over BACnet or Modbus and mapped into one naming model, so a chiller is a chiller whichever vendor installed it.
Can it raise jobs in our FM system?
Yes. Alarms create work orders in your FM or CAFM system through its API, and response and completion times come back to track the contractor.
Does it change setpoints or control equipment?
Monitoring is read-only by default. Control can be enabled for chosen points, with role-based approval and a full audit trail of every change.
Who can see which buildings?
Access is set by portfolio, site and role. Owners, FM teams, contractors and tenants each see what they are responsible for, and every access is logged.
/ Explore more /
Other solutions on the same foundation.
Fleet & Asset Operations
Know where assets are, how they are performing, and where attention is needed.
Cold Chain & Compliance
Monitor conditions continuously and create the operational record while products move.
Driver Safety & Journey Management
Connect journeys, behaviour, safety events and operational response.
Bring us the decision that takes too long today.
Start with the problem. IoT Cube provides the foundation underneath.