Are you looking for a way to improve the efficiency and sustainability of your building? UBX is the ultimate turnkey solution for smart building management. UBX streamlines your operations, enhances efficiency, and provides a unified platform to control energy use, occupant comfort, and building operations. Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to upgrade your existing system, UBX offers a seamless and scalable solution.

Customers use the UBX products to solve a multitude of challenges:

• Monitor the real time and historical health and comfort of your building(s)
• Monitor the energy consumption (electricity and gas), resource utilization (water), and environmental impacts of your building
• Manage your HVAC equipment to optimize the system performance and save energy
• Add new capabilities to an existing building management system
• Expand the number and types of devices used to monitor their building
• Build a floor plan with your buildings assets, access the supporting technical documents, and track maintenance history
• Monitor and Map the occupancy and usage patterns of a building
• Share building data with a data analysis tool
• Optimize and predict maintenance for the equipment across your building(s)
• Access the complete real time and historical data for all your buildings from your phone, tablet, or computer
• Analyze, visualize, and compare key performance performance indicators (KPI) and gain insights across your portfolio of buildings
• And more

UBX combines the most important capabilities from Facility Management Solutions (FMS), Computerized Maintenance Management Systems(CMMS), and Building Management Systems(BMS) with capabilities like:

• Real-time and historical health and comfort monitoring: UBX provides real-time and historical data on your building’s environment, such as, temperature, humidity, CO2 levels, and occupancy. This data can be used to improve occupant comfort and prevent health problems.
• Energy consumption monitoring: UBX can track your building’s energy consumption, so you can identify areas where you can save money.
• Resources utilization monitoring: UBX can track your building’s water and other resource consumption, so you can make informed decisions about conservation.
• HVAC optimization: UBX can help you optimize your HVAC system to save money and increase occupant comfort.
• Asset tracking: UBX can help you track your building’s assets, so you can ensure that they are properly maintained.
• Occupancy and usage mapping: UBX can help you map your building’s occupancy and usage patterns, so you can optimize energy use and space utilization.
• ESG compliance reporting: UBX can help you generate reports that demonstrate your building’s compliance with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards as well as reporting for local regulations and KPI reporting needs.
• Maintenance optimization: UBX can help you optimize your maintenance schedule to prevent costly breakdowns.
• Remote access: UBX can be accessed from anywhere, so you can monitor your building from the comfort of your own home or office.

There are many solutions that solve one or two of these challenges but when it comes to solving all of them, multiple independent systems are used together to meet the building’s complete monitoring, management, and reporting requirements. Without products like UBX Data that openly share the data that is gathered it can create a mess of incompatible systems that can’t share data or work together. Also unlike UBX Data, the combined systems also often introduce complexities in terms of IT and building automation network integration and require software programmers or professional services to operate them effectively. 

In June of 2023, Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, highlighted the challenges Ford is facing competing with Tesla. One of the main issues his company is facing is very similar to the challenges that building managers face, he explained. 

“We’ve farmed out the software modules that control the vehicles to our suppliers, because we could bid them against each other…the problem is the software is all written by 150 different companies and they don’t talk to each other…we can’t even understand it all.” (link)

Managing a building is different from operating an automobile and the solutions to the problem will be different, but at the core both face the challenge of needing a unified system to tie all of their operations together and require a solution with the ability to flexibly evolve. UBX System and UBX Data help to solve these problems.

Don’t let outdated building management systems hold you back. UBX provides a comprehensive, user-friendly platform that simplifies your operations, improves efficiency, and reduces costs. By choosing UBX, you’re investing in a future-proof solution that will help you achieve your building management goals whether UBX System is your first building management system or if you’re using UBX Data to enhance an existing building management system.

To learn more about UBX and how it can help you, please contact our team for a live demonstration or additional information.

Read the next part in the series to learn more about UBX:
Part 1: Quick, Easy, and Low-cost Installation with UBX