Smart Building Technology Solutions

Glucose

monitoring

Continuous glucose monitors (CGM) measure the body’s glucose levels in real-time by detecting the glucose present in tissue fluid (also called interstitial fluid).

Glucose is another word for sugar. While a blood glucose meter (BGM) provides a measurement of the blood glucose level at a specific moment in time (when you prick your finger), CGMs typically provide a new glucose level every five minutes, meaning 288 times per day data is recorded. 

Remote patient monitoring

Remote patient monitoring or telemonitoring aims at improving patient care through digitally transmitted health-related data and enables the streamlined collection of patient data beyond the traditional healthcare setting.

It allows early detection of disease decompensation and intervention, patient education and improves patient-physician relationship.

Heart rate monitoring

Like glucose, monitoring heart rates can be difficult, even for patients who attend healthcare facilities. Periodic heart rate checks don’t guard against rapid fluctuations in heart rates, and conventional devices for continuous cardiac monitoring used in hospitals require patients to be attached to wired machines constantly, impairing their mobility. Remote monitoring of heart rates is a game changer, IoT can boost efficiency for healthcare professionals.

Hand hygiene monitoring

With the threat of COVID still not subsiding, hand hygiene is becoming a vital part of minimisng the spread of infectious viruses. Water temperature monitoring sensors normally used upon sentinel end points for Legionella monitoring can be doubled up for hand wash hygiene. Each time the taps are used the sensor picks up usage and sends data to be recorded upon our customer data hub. You can now be safe in the knowledge your staff are washing their hands before they interact with their clients.

Depression & mood monitoring

Traditionally very hard information for healthcare professionals to collect and collate, depression and changes in mood can now be monitored via Smart phones or watches.

The constent monitoring of heart rate and blood pressure is being used to determine these metrics as viable ways to assess peoples moods or state of depression. Over time, this data will become more uselful as more people use this type of service.

Connected

inhalers

Alongside monitoring the frequency of attacks, connected inhalers monitor the air quality around them to understand and learn the conditions that may have brought on an attack.

Connected inhalers will also alert users when they have left their inhaler at home, increasing their risk of suffering attacks.

Connected contact lenses

Digital contact lenses are a very new addition to the IoT industry. Whether or not they end up providing a direct health benefit to users is still to be confirmed.

There is no doubt however that the ability for users to record images via micro cameras within the connected contact lenses is something that can only boost digital interactions between users in the future.

Robotics surgery

The use of IoT devices within surgery is already a reality. These devices are incredibly small and the healing time and size of incisions have been reduced for many types of surgery.

Keyhole devices are commonly used for knee and heart surgery and have been found to be highly beneficial in the process.

Reduce Customer Complaints

The biggest KPI (Key Performance Indicator) in customer satisfaction is the number of customer complaints. High volumes of customer complaints is not only crippling to the daily running of a service such as a housing association but the damage to reputation of poor customer service and high complaint volumes cannot be underestimated.
With this KPI being so important, extra cost, time, resources, and staff is often spent on dealing with customer complaints rather than that money being invested back into the schemes to make real world improvements in an attempt to reduce the number of complaints in a positive way.

Boost Staff Health and Happiness

A well balanced building environment that is clearly important to the service provider gives a solid platform for people to perform at their best. If your workplace looks after you from the building environment upwards, you are far more likely to be happy at work, not take time off, and actually go the extra mile for them as you know they do for you. Happy staff will work harder and do more for the customers, providing a much better customer experience.

Improve Building Environment Health

The more data available from as many different types of sensors relevant to the building will only make a positive difference to the building environment health. By monitoring and maintaining comfortable levels of ambient temperature and humidity, by ensuring IAQ is high, and the building has good ventilation, you are making a happier and healthier environment for all building occupants. Staff will be more efficient, and customers will be more tolerant simply because of the conditions of the direct environment the building provides.

Increase Customer Satisfaction

By improving any of the other areas of building environment management, it will only ever end in improved customer satisfaction. Customer and end users of services don’t want much. They simply want the service advertised to do what it says it will do. This is the same for any user of any service, the absolute basic requirement is that the service does what it says. Giving end users a better place to be, with more comfortable climates, happier staff and more staff resources available to the end users when they are required are guarantees that the service will be as good as it can be.

Increase Service Uptake

By creating a better environment and healthier building with the implementation of a smart building system, customers will see everyday the improvement in building management, making their lives happier and easier to manage. Less downtime to services, better allocation of resources, happier staff, and a general sense of a good place to live will increase the uptake of new services offered by the housing associations. This in turn increases the budgets available to improve the customer’s experience.

Free up on-site Resources

Simply by reducing site visits alone from 12 monthly to 1 annual, the on-site resources required to administrate the site visits, the coordination on site to meet contractors and chaperone where required is reduced by 91.6% This benefit is carried over into the percentage of money saved, simply by no longer carrying out these tasks each month.

Remove contractor site visits

Having 1 system that can acquire all data needed to assist in building management and optimization means all current contractor sites visits are removed as they are no longer required. 1 annual site visit for system maintenance. No more missed site visits, no more admin to rearrange contractors and no more missed readings for all on site systems being monitored.

Enables Preventive Maintenance & Planned Management

Having access to data 24/7 enables data analysis to show trends and map performance of key assets. This knowledge allows a preventive maintenance plan to be adopted. Instead of changing components at set timed intervals or when there is a full break down, using data you can see when the performance starts to drop off and therefore when new components are required. Over time this picture can be developed to show the expected life of components within the key assets on site.