Building Automation & Integration

Commercial buildings accumulate control systems independently — lighting from the electrical package, HVAC from the mechanical package, shading from the interiors package, AV from somewhere else entirely. Each works. None knows the others exist. The building ends up running five schedules that disagree with each other.

Integration resolves that into a single sequence of operations. Building open, building close, after-hours, holiday, and event modes that coordinate every subsystem at once: lighting to occupied levels, HVAC to occupied setpoints, shades to their daylight position, AV powered and on the default source, and access transitioning from locked to public.

The savings come from occupancy and scheduling working together across systems. Conference room sensors that release HVAC and lighting when a meeting ends early, floors that shut down cleanly at close instead of running until someone remembers, and holiday schedules that actually get followed all produce measurable reductions — and they only work if the systems share occupancy data.

We build these on open protocols — BACnet, Modbus, DALI, and standard network APIs — for a specific reason. Proprietary integration means the building can only ever be serviced by the company that installed it, and when that relationship ends, so does the ability to change anything. Open protocols keep the building yours.