Digital Building Advisor
Transform your buildings into smart, high-performance, and predictive assetsDigital Building Advisor
Transform your buildings into smart, high-performance, and predictive assets
Transform Your Buildings into Intelligent, High-Performing and Predictive Assets with Digital Building Advisor
Operating a building today is no longer just about keeping it running. It’s about maximising energy efficiency, reducing operating costs, improving occupant comfort, and anticipating failures before they impact business operations.
Equans Digital’s Digital Building Advisor is revolutionising building management through the intelligent use of data from technical systems. By combining Building Analytics, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, IoT connectivity, and Equans’ business expertise, the solution automatically detects anomalies, identifies their causes, calculates their operational impact, and recommends the most appropriate corrective actions.
The result: data-driven operations, fewer deviations, fewer breakdowns, greater energy savings, and continuous improvement in building performance.
Why has the Digital Building Advisor become essential for addressing your challenges?
Faced with rising energy costs, regulatory requirements, and increasingly ambitious Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) targets that are becoming increasingly ambitious, property owners, operators, and managers must adapt their management approaches.
However, despite investments in Building Management Systems (BMS), Centralised Technical Management (CTM), the Internet of Things (IoT), or technical monitoring, a large portion of the available data remains underutilised.
The Digital Building Advisor enables this data to be transformed into concrete, directly actionable operational decisions.
Modern buildings generate millions of pieces of technical data every year. Despite this wealth of information, most anomalies remain hidden until:
- a failure occurs;
- excessive energy consumption;
- occupant discomfort;
- equipment deterioration.
The Digital Building Advisor automatically detects anomalies before they become critical.
Improperly adjusted equipment, faulty sensors, or inappropriate setpoints can lead to significant energy losses over several months without being detected.
Through continuous analysis of operating data, Digital Building Advisor quickly identifies sources of energy waste and opportunities for optimisation.
Traditional maintenance often takes place after a fault has occurred. This approach results in:
- higher service costs;
- service interruptions;
- unplanned outages;
- increased demand on technical teams.
The Digital Building Advisor anticipates failures to reduce emergency interventions and improve facility availability.
In a multi-device, multi-site environment, it is often difficult to identify:
- the most critical devices;
- the anomalies with the greatest impact;
- actions offering the best return on investment.
Digital Building Advisor automatically prioritises actions based on their criticality and potential savings.
Today, companies must demonstrate measurable results in the following areas:
- reducing energy consumption;
- lower carbon emissions;
- improved operational efficiency;
- compliance with ESG commitments.
The Digital Building Advisor provides the metrics and evidence needed to effectively steer these trajectories.
Use Cases for the Digital Building Advisor
The Digital Building Advisor transforms data from the BMS, the HVAC control system, and connected devices into concrete performance drivers. Through advanced analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and automatic anomaly detection mechanisms, the platform identifies operational deviations, prioritises necessary actions, and guides teams toward more efficient, sustainable, and results-oriented operations. Discover the key use cases that help optimise the energy, operational, and environmental performance of buildings.
The platform identifies in real time:
- abnormal temperatures;
- stuck valves;
- non-compliant airflow rates;
- faulty sensors;
- inconsistent settings;
- equipment operating outside scheduled hours.
During a pilot project, the system detected a hot water temperature deviation responsible for more than €48,000 in annual energy losses.
The Digital Building Advisor continuously monitors:
- the outdoor temperature;
- fresh air dampers;
- the mixed air temperature;
- the supply air temperature;
- pressures;
- ventilation speeds;
- the openings of the hot and cold dampers.
The algorithm automatically recommends adjustments to improve energy efficiency while maintaining occupant comfort.
When a defect is identified, the system:
- detects the anomaly;
- identifies the probable cause;
- assesses its energy and operational impact;
- assesses its criticality;
- proposes corrective action.
Maintenance teams thus receive recommendations that can be implemented immediately.
By detecting deviations early, operators can reduce:
- unplanned outages;
- emergency interventions;
- impacts on building operations;
- disruptions for building occupants.
Organisations with multiple buildings benefit from a consolidated view that allows them to:
- compare performance across sites;
- identify best practices;
- standardise operational strategies;
- scale up energy improvement plans.
The Equans Digital solution: a Building Analytics and predictive maintenance platform
The Digital Building Advisor combines all the components necessary for smart building operations:
- data collection and archiving;
- integration of BMS, GTC, and IoT systems;
- secure OT/IT connectivity;
- advanced analytics and diagnostics engines;
- artificial intelligence;
- Equans’ business expertise.
The goal is simple: to transform technical data into concrete performance drivers.
How does the Digital Building Advisor work?
The algorithms automatically identify:
- operational anomalies;
- control deviations;
- setpoint deviations;
- defective sensors;
- inefficient equipment;
- abnormal energy consumption.
Each anomaly is supplemented by:
- a root cause analysis;
- an estimate of energy losses;
- an assessment of the operational impact;
- prioritisation based on criticality.
The platform automatically suggests:
- optimal settings;
- maintenance tasks;
- energy efficiency plans;
- quantified savings opportunities.
Services Included with the Digital Building Advisor
The success of a Building Analytics and predictive maintenance initiative depends as much on the quality of the platform as on the associated support. That is why the Digital Building Advisor includes comprehensive services covering data auditing, solution deployment, continuous equipment monitoring, and support for operations teams. This approach ensures sustainable improvements in energy performance, asset availability, and the achievement of ESG goals.
Reliability: analysis of the existing building management system, validation of measurement points, and data quality control.
Integration: connecting to existing equipment, configuring diagnostics, and creating dashboards.
Proactivity: continuous monitoring of facilities and real-time anomaly detection.
Business expertise: analysis of results, alert classification, and operational recommendations.
Management: tracking cost savings, emissions avoided, corrective actions, and return on investment.
Digital Building Advisor in Action
What if your buildings could detect operational issues before they impact your business? Discover how the Digital Building Advisor transforms data from BMS and connected equipment into high-value operational recommendations. A practical demonstration of the benefits of predictive maintenance, Building Analytics and energy optimisation.
The Numbers That Turn Your Buildings Into High-Performance Facilities
Make the Switch to Predictive Building Operations
Turn your equipment data into high-value operational decisions. With Equans Digital’s Digital Building Advisor, identify issues before they become costs, reduce your energy consumption, improve the availability of your assets, and accelerate progress toward your ESG goals. Contact our Equans Digital experts and discover how to unlock the full potential of your building data.Make the Switch to Predictive Building Operations
Turn your equipment data into high-value operational decisions. With Equans Digital’s Digital Building Advisor, identify issues before they become costs, reduce your energy consumption, improve the availability of your assets, and accelerate progress toward your ESG goals. Contact our Equans Digital experts and discover how to unlock the full potential of your building data.