IoT Facilities Management

IoT Facilities Management replaces uncertainty with real operational signals across complex estates. Facilities teams and property operators are responsible for uptime, safety and compliance across plant rooms, risers, basements, rooftops and perimeter areas, often with constrained access and fragmented tooling. The challenge is knowing what is happening between inspections and contractor visits, without adding operational burden or ripping out existing infrastructure.

Traditional building tools cover part of the picture, but cost and complexity grow fast when you attempt deep retrofit integrations. Many estates still operate with blind spots: cabinets and comms risers, utility meters and valves, lift plant, HVAC assets, cold rooms, washrooms, and critical panels. Incidents often begin as small drift signals: abnormal temperature, moisture risk, unexpected access, equipment movement, or state changes that go unnoticed until they become failures and callouts.

Squared Technologies provides a network-first sensing layer designed for real estates. Gateways establish dependable coverage indoors and outdoors while low-power 433.868 MHz tags and sensors deliver predictable telemetry with practical cadence. This creates a live baseline across the estate: presence and movement cues, access anomalies, state changes, and environmental conditions where independent corroboration improves decision-making.

The result is a retrofit layer that can complement and often replace large parts of expensive building system change work. Instead of relying on bespoke point integrations everywhere, teams get consistent exception signals across utilities, plant and security. Typical targets include chillers and condensers, boilers and pump manifolds, circulation pumps, valves and shutoffs, water meters and leak trays, switchboards and UPS, comms risers and patch panels, lifts and control cabinets, CCTV hubs and access control zones.

High-value outcomes come from exception-first operations. Out-of-hours access, unexpected movement, drift in temperature or humidity, and changes in critical states are surfaced quickly, reducing patrol overhead and accelerating triage. Evidence-grade timelines support maintenance planning, contractor accountability and dispute reduction, with clearer narratives for insurers and auditors when incidents occur.

Start with a scoped pilot on one representative building or estate zone: map critical assets and risk drivers, validate coverage and cadence, define actionable events, and agree acceptance criteria. Then scale systematically across the portfolio: extend coverage, tag priority assets, add sensors where they drive outcomes, and standardise thresholds and reporting across sites. The result is repeatable assurance and measurable cost reduction across facilities operations.