V12 · Buildings & Facilities
Building Automation & HVAC
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(HVAC, lighting, elevators) run on fixed schedules, not real-time intelligence.
The gap between "system running" and "system running optimally" is enormous.
Sensor→
Ingest→
Interpret→
Decide→
Act→
Outcome→
Learn↩
Pairs with: Construction sector · geog.ai spatial layer
Data In — Sensors
- Temperature sensors (zone, duct, pipe, outdoor)
- Humidity sensors
- CO2 sensors (demand-controlled ventilation)
- VOC sensors (indoor air quality)
- Occupancy sensors (PIR, radar, CO2-proxy, desk sensors)
- Light level sensors (daylight harvesting)
- Duct static pressure / air flow
- VAV box position / flow
- Chiller / boiler plant instrumentation (supply/return temp, flow, kW)
- AHU status (fan speed, filter DP, coil valve position, economizer)
- Elevator status (position, door, load, fault)
- Window / shade actuator position
- Domestic hot water temperature
- Fire alarm panel integration (status, trouble, alarm)
- Electrical sub-metering (per floor, per AHU, per tenant)
- Steam / chilled water BTU metering
- Smoke/fire damper position
- Stairwell pressurization fan status
- Cooling tower (fan, water temperature, chemical)
- Parking garage CO / ventilation
Interpret — What the AI does with it
- Occupancy-based optimization: no one on floor 3 → reduce HVAC, dim lights
- Demand response pre-cooling: lower setpoints before peak pricing
- Fault detection: simultaneous heating and cooling (energy waste)
- Predictive maintenance: filter DP trend → replace before failure
- Thermal comfort modeling: PMV/PPD from temperature, humidity, air speed
- Elevator dispatch optimization: predict traffic patterns by time/day
- Indoor air quality: CO2 > 1000 ppm → increase outside air
- Free cooling: outdoor conditions favorable → economizer mode
Decide & Act — The decision rules
- Zone unoccupied → Setback temperature, reduce ventilation to minimum, dim/off lights
- Demand response signal → Pre-cool, shed non-critical loads, notify tenants
- Fault detected (heating + cooling) → Correct valve sequencing, alert maintenance
- Filter replacement needed → Create work order, predict days remaining
- IAQ threshold exceeded → Increase outside air damper, alert facility manager
- Elevator fault → Recall to ground, alert maintenance, switch to backup dispatch
- Fire alarm → Release fire dampers, stairwell pressurization, elevator recall
Outcome & Learn — Closing the loop
- Energy savings from occupancy-based control (measured vs. baseline)
- Comfort complaint rate (are optimizations causing complaints?)
- Fault detection accuracy (confirmed faults vs. false positives)
- Predictive maintenance lead time (how far in advance can we predict filter/belt/bearing?)
- Demand response effectiveness (kW shed vs. committed)
Industries Served
- Commercial office buildings (Class A, B, C)
- Hospitals (critical environments — OR, isolation, pharmacy, NICU)
- Schools / universities (classroom air quality, energy budgets)
- Hotels (guest comfort, vacancy energy savings)
- Retail stores (customer comfort, refrigeration)
- Data centers (cooling optimization, PUE reduction)
- Warehouses (zone heating, dock door management, humidity control)
- Historic buildings (preservation-grade climate control)
- Museums / archives (artifact preservation — tight temperature/humidity)
- Convention centers / arenas (variable occupancy, event scheduling)
- Labs (fume hood management, pressure cascades)
- Clean rooms (particle count, pressure, temperature, humidity — tight tolerances)
Regulatory Frameworks
Coming soon.
Transport
Reticulum (wireless retrofit for old buildings — avoids running cable), MQTT, wired (existing BMS backbone), BLE (wireless sensors)
Deploy Building Automation & HVAC today
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Bundle discount: 20% off when paired with an active midmen.ai or augmen.app subscription.
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5 edge agents · 10K events/mo
MQTT + HTTP transport
Community support
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$299/mo
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All transports
Email support
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$999/mo
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Priority support
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Colony
Custom
Unlimited agents & events
Dedicated infrastructure
SLA + on-site
Dedicated infrastructure
SLA + on-site