The Comfort Factor

The Comfort Factor

The third of the three KPIs that are our gold standard is the comfort of your occupants. We’ve saved this until last to discuss, but in fact, it should be top of your list as you work to create a high-performance building.

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Keeping Your Assets in Tip Top Health

Keeping Your Assets in Tip Top Health

At PointGuard we value three KPIs related to your building’s performance above all others. In a previous article, we spoke about managing energy savings using the insights gained from the powerful analytics offered by our automatic fault detection and diagnostics (AFDD) service, and its ability to unlock insights in your BMS data. You can read that article here.

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Remember to Switch the Lights Off When You Leave

Remember to Switch the Lights Off When You Leave

At PointGuard we set a lot of stock in KPIs, given our focus on transparency and business case data for energy efficiency projects. Our analytics platform can measure just about any KPI related to your building’s performance, but there are three KPIs that we value above all else. In our experience if you get these three things right then everything else, including return on investment, improves.

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Does your building management system pay its own way?

Does your building management system pay its own way?

It used to be the case that you couldn’t manage what you didn’t measure. But, in the past few years, thanks to the rapid development of sensor technology and the internet of things, we very rapidly gained the ability to measure anything and everything: how many steps we take; how long we sleep for; and even our hearts’ electrical activity thanks to the electrocardiogram capabilities of the latest Apple Watch.

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Reflections on CREtech Venture Conference

Reflections on CREtech Venture Conference

The PointGuard team made up of me (Shannon Smith), and our Chief Engineer, Derek McGarry recently exhibited at the leading event for content and connectivity in commercial real estate, the CREtech Venture Conference in New York City.

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Q&A with Shannon Smith, CEO of PointGuard

Q&A with Shannon Smith, CEO of PointGuard

Recently, we announced the launch of PointGuard, the rebranded analytics arm of our parent company, Abundant Power. Sit down with our CEO, Shannon Smith, and get to know a little bit more about the company, our rebrand, and our goals for 2019 and beyond.

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