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Real-time intelligence across every building asset, from the plant room to the meeting room

We connect the building data you already have, then fill the gaps with wireless sensors. Building health, energy, critical plant, occupancy and water, on one managed network and one view, without replacing the systems your teams already run.

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3,000+
indoor environmental quality sensors monitoring teaching spaces, libraries and common areas across the campuses of a leading Australian university
A sunlit atrium inside an Australian commercial office building, people moving across the walkways in warm morning daylight, with a restrained teal data overlay across the upper glazing.
A rooftop plant deck with chillers, an air handling unit and a heat pump, a technician in hi-vis checking a small wireless sensor clipped to the pipework.
A bright open plan workplace floor where one half is occupied and the other half sits empty, with a subtle teal overlay marking the unused desks.
The Problem

Most building faults are discovered by a complaint, an alarm or an invoice

Building owners and facilities teams are under growing pressure to reduce operating costs, improve occupant experience, meet sustainability targets and maintain increasingly complex assets. Yet many buildings still depend on scheduled inspections, occupant complaints and alarms that are generated only after performance has deteriorated or equipment has failed.

Work starts after the fault, not before it.

Smaller, remote and legacy assets stay invisible.

The data lives in systems that do not talk to each other.

Building Management Systems (BMS), energy management platforms and specialist building control systems remain essential for operational control. However, they do not always provide visibility across smaller, remote, legacy or standalone assets. Extending wired monitoring to these assets can be expensive, disruptive and impractical.

An older Australian plant room where ageing standalone equipment carries no sensors while a single newer asset in the background shows a teal data overlay, and a technician makes a manual inspection round with a clipboard.

Without continuous, integrated visibility, facilities teams can face:

  • Unplanned equipment failures and costly emergency call-outs
  • High energy and water consumption with limited visibility of the root cause
  • Occupant comfort and indoor air quality complaints
  • Maintenance based on fixed schedules rather than actual asset condition
  • Fragmented data across BMS, meters, contractors and standalone systems
  • Limited insight into equipment deterioration, abnormal runtime and emerging faults
  • Difficulty demonstrating sustainability, compliance and operational performance

What is Smart Facilities Management?

Smart Facilities Management is a data-driven approach to monitoring, maintaining and optimising buildings, services and critical assets. It combines wireless IoT sensors, existing BMS data, secure wireless connectivity, cloud analytics, automated alerts and open integration to turn disconnected building information into actionable operational intelligence.

The objective is not simply to collect more data. It is to provide facilities teams with a clearer understanding of how a building is performing, which assets require attention, where resources are being wasted and what action should be prioritised.

Our Smart Facilities Management solutions complement existing BMS and building control systems by using available BACnet, Modbus, MQTT and API data wherever possible, then filling monitoring gaps with low-power LoRaWAN sensors. This open approach protects existing technology investments and avoids unnecessary duplication.

This is an open approach, not a rip and replace. Your existing systems keep running while we fill the gaps they were never built to cover.

A clean building services plant room with a labelled switchboard, a clamp-on current sensor over the cable tails and a brass water meter on a copper main, each carrying a small wireless logger.

Find the part of your building that needs answers first

The five application areas below provide a practical framework for improving building performance, occupant outcomes and asset reliability.

Prove the air is good, before anyone has to complain about it.

Indoor air quality, temperature, humidity, CO2, VOCs, particulate matter, light and environmental comfort.

Operational issues identified
  • Poor ventilation
  • Uncomfortable conditions
  • Humidity imbalance
  • Air quality deterioration
  • Recurring occupant complaints

Healthier occupants, improved comfort, faster response to complaints and evidence to support WELL, NABERS and ESG objectives.

See how alerts are prioritised
Find the load that is costing you money outside operating hours.

Electrical switchboards, circuits, sub-metering, HVAC energy, solar generation, gas consumption, voltage and equipment runtime.

Operational issues identified
  • Abnormal demand
  • Excessive runtime
  • Declining efficiency
  • Equipment operating outside schedule
  • High peak consumption

Lower energy costs, improved carbon reporting, verified efficiency initiatives and better capital planning.

See how alerts are prioritised
Catch the bearing, the filter and the compressor before they stop the building.

HVAC, AHUs, FCUs, chillers, heat pumps, pumps, compressors, lifts, fans, motors, laundry equipment and other critical plant.

Operational issues identified
  • Rising vibration
  • Bearing wear
  • Blocked filters
  • Compressor degradation
  • Abnormal current
  • Pressure loss
  • Poor heat transfer
  • Excessive cycling

Earlier fault detection, fewer unplanned outages, reduced maintenance costs, longer asset life and improved service reliability.

See how alerts are prioritised
Clean, condition and staff the spaces that are actually being used.

People counting, presence, meeting-room use, environmental comfort, door status, space utilisation and supplementary safety context.

Operational issues identified
  • Underused or overcrowded spaces
  • Inefficient cleaning, lighting or HVAC schedules
  • Unusual access activity
  • Limited event context

Better workplace utilisation, optimised cleaning and services, improved occupant experience and enhanced operational awareness.

See the occupancy detail
Stop paying for water that never reached a tap.

Digital water metering, sub-metering, leak detection, tank levels, pressure, pumps, irrigation, hot-water systems and flow monitoring.

Operational issues identified
  • Continuous leaks
  • Unexpected overnight usage
  • Burst pipes
  • Low tank levels
  • Pressure loss
  • Pump faults
  • Inefficient hot-water performance

Reduced water waste, lower costs, early leak response, improved resilience and better sustainability performance.

See how alerts are prioritised
A glazed meeting room in an Australian office with a wall-mounted indoor air quality display beside the door, a leafy plant against the glass and a restrained teal overlay above the table.
Indoor environmental quality at the point of use, measured continuously rather than sampled once a year.
A rooftop solar array on an Australian commercial building beside an open electrical enclosure carrying a clamp-on current sensor, with a teal overlay tracing live load along the conduit.
Circuit-level electrical sensing, so consumption is attributable to the plant that caused it.
An interior mechanical plant room with a row of pump sets and a large fan, a small wireless vibration sensor clipped to a motor housing with a teal waveform overlay.
Vibration and runtime on rotating plant, the earliest honest signal that something is changing.
A bright building lobby and breakout space with people at a distance, ceiling sensors above the seating zones and a restrained teal overlay marking anonymous space utilisation.
Anonymous, non-vision-based space utilisation. Counts and dwell only, never individuals.
A building hydraulic riser with a stainless steel storage tank, a brass water meter on a copper main and a small wireless logger, with a teal flow overlay along the pipe.
Metering, level and leak detection on the hydraulic services most buildings never see.

From reactive maintenance to informed, condition-based operations

We deliver end-to-end Smart Facilities Management and building asset intelligence solutions for commercial buildings, campuses and property portfolios. By combining environmental sensing, energy and water monitoring, predictive asset analytics, managed LoRaWAN connectivity and enterprise integration, we enable facilities teams to transition from reactive maintenance to informed, condition-based operations.

Healthy buildings

Healthy building and indoor environmental quality monitoring

Continuous carbon dioxide, temperature, humidity, particulate and comfort data across the spaces people actually occupy.

Energy, electrical and sustainability intelligence

Switchboard and circuit-level sub-metering, tied back to the plant driving the load.

Predictive maintenance for HVAC and critical building services

Vibration, current, pressure and runtime on the plant a building cannot operate without.

Occupancy, space utilisation and supplementary safety monitoring

Anonymous, non-vision-based measurement of how spaces are really used.

Smart water metering, leak detection and infrastructure monitoring

Consumption, tank level, pressure and leak alerts across the hydraulic services.

Integration with the platforms your teams already run

BMS, CMMS, asset management, digital twin and BIM, business intelligence systems and AI and ML tools.

A simple, step-by-step path to smart facilities management

Five steps, in order, from the data your building already produces to the maintenance workflow that acts on it.

Nothing here requires the BMS to be replaced. Each step adds visibility the previous one could not reach.

Step 1

Connect existing building data

Identify useful information already available through the BMS, meters, plant controllers, PLCs, VSDs and specialist building systems.

Step 2

Fill monitoring gaps

Deploy battery-powered LoRaWAN sensors where assets are not connected, communications cabling is impractical or additional condition data is required.

Step 3

Create a unified asset view

Combine sensor readings, alarms, runtime, energy and process data around the physical asset rather than displaying isolated data points.

Step 4

Apply analytics and alerts

Establish normal operating baselines, monitor thresholds and trends, and identify abnormal performance or emerging maintenance risks.

Step 5

Integrate maintenance workflows

Send actionable alerts to facilities teams and integrate with CMMS, work-order, asset management and reporting platforms.

From real-time data to actionable intelligence

Collecting data is only the first step. Meshed Asset Intelligence applies thresholds, trend analysis and operating baselines to identify conditions that require attention. Typical alerts can include:

  • HVAC energy consumption increasing above its historical baseline
  • Supply or return temperatures moving outside design conditions
  • Elevated CO2 or humidity indicating inadequate ventilation
  • High filter differential pressure indicating a blocked filter
  • Increasing fan, motor, pump or compressor vibration
  • Hot-water systems showing excessive runtime or poor temperature recovery
  • Water leaks, low tank levels or unexpected continuous flow
  • Equipment operating outside scheduled hours
  • Occupancy patterns that do not align with cleaning, lighting or HVAC schedules
A Meshed vibration monitoring dashboard showing three-axis velocity and acceleration traces against red threshold bands, with a visible event spike.

Our Asset Intelligence Platform enables alerts that can be prioritised by severity, asset criticality and operational impact, then delivered through the 24/7 dashboards, email, SMS or integrated maintenance workflows. This helps facilities teams focus on the assets requiring action rather than reviewing large volumes of raw sensor data.

Occupancy intelligence

Transform facilities management with real-time occupancy intelligence

Optimise facilities management with Meshed nCounter people counting

Facilities managers are increasingly expected to deliver exceptional occupant experiences while reducing operational costs and improving building performance. The Meshed nCounter People Counting Solution provides real-time, privacy-safe occupancy and foot traffic insights that enable facilities teams to manage spaces based on actual usage rather than assumptions.

Using low-power LoRaWAN technology, nCounter anonymously detects Wi-Fi-enabled devices to provide accurate people counting, dwell time analysis and utilisation trends without vision-based systems, personal data collection or reliance on the building's IT network.

A busy shared kitchen and breakout floor beside a glazed meeting room in an Australian office, with a small plain wireless sensor on a pillar and restrained teal outlines marking each zone rather than any individual.

Data is presented through intuitive dashboards and can be integrated into existing Building Management Systems (BMS), CAFM platforms and business intelligence tools, enabling smarter decisions around cleaning, maintenance, staffing, energy management and space planning.

The solution is quick to deploy, highly scalable across single buildings or multi-site portfolios, and delivers actionable insights within minutes of installation. These capabilities help facilities teams improve service delivery, optimise operational expenditure and make evidence-based decisions with confidence.

Select a facilities management challenge to see how nCounter answers it and what it is worth.

Cleaning optimisation
Schedule cleaning based on actual occupancy rather than fixed timetables
Reduce cleaning costs while maintaining service quality
Preventive maintenance
Identify heavily used amenities such as bathrooms, kitchens, gyms and meeting spaces
Prioritise maintenance where it is needed most, extending asset life
Space utilisation
Monitor occupancy and dwell times across offices, common areas and shared facilities
Better space planning and improved workplace utilisation
Energy efficiency
Correlate occupancy patterns with HVAC and lighting operation
Reduce energy consumption and operating costs
Contractor management
Measure actual building activity before scheduling service contractors
Improve contractor productivity and minimise disruption
Occupant experience
Detect peak usage periods and identify overcrowded areas
Improve comfort, reduce congestion and enhance user satisfaction
Capital planning
Analyse long-term utilisation trends across facilities
Support evidence-based investment and refurbishment decisions
Compliance and reporting
Generate historical occupancy reports and trend analysis
Support ESG reporting, operational reviews and executive decision-making
Multi-site portfolio management
Compare utilisation across multiple buildings from a single dashboard
Benchmark performance and allocate resources more effectively
Event and meeting management
Measure attendance and occupancy before, during and after events
Optimise room bookings, staffing and facility resources

From periodic inspections to continuous visibility across a whole campus network

One of Australia's leading universities embraced smart facilities management as part of a broader smart campus strategy, and kept scaling it because the operational picture it produced was better than the one inspections gave them.

3,000+
indoor environmental quality sensors across the university's campuses
Days
to deploy monitoring, not the months a full system upgrade takes
5 to 10 yr
battery life from a single wireless building sensor, depending on device and reporting frequency

A healthier campus, at scale

During and after the COVID-19 pandemic the university deployed more than 3,000 IoT indoor environmental quality sensors across teaching spaces, lecture theatres, libraries and common areas, continuously monitoring temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide and other indoor air quality indicators.

What changed operationally

Rather than relying on periodic inspections or occupant feedback, facilities teams gained real-time visibility into building conditions across multiple campuses. The data let operational staff optimise natural ventilation by informing door and window opening strategies, and adjust BMS HVAC settings to hold comfortable indoor temperatures and minimise periods of elevated CO2.

Why it kept growing

The success of the initial deployment led to a full rollout across the university's major campuses, where the platform continues to support healthier learning environments, improve occupant comfort, optimise building performance and guide future capital investment and sustainability initiatives.

A Meshed environmental monitoring dashboard showing a building floor plan with live temperature, carbon dioxide and humidity readings by zone, alongside door status alerts and trend charts.
Temperature, carbon dioxide and humidity logged continuously per space, so you can see CO2 climbing in a meeting room before anyone logs a complaint.
What deployments like this demonstrate
Real-time visibility across every building
Condition-based rather than calendar-based maintenance
Healthier, more comfortable occupied spaces
Faster response when conditions move
Lower energy, water and maintenance costs
Evidence for capital planning and ESG reporting
Why facilities teams choose us

How we compare to traditional building monitoring

For property owners, facilities managers and service providers seeking greater visibility, efficiency and resilience, we provide a scalable and secure Smart Facilities Management platform that bridges traditional building systems and previously disconnected assets.

Unlike closed or siloed monitoring solutions, we combine managed LoRaWAN connectivity, device-agnostic sensing, open integrations and asset-focused analytics. Existing BMS and building control data can be retained and enriched, while new sensors are deployed only where additional visibility delivers value.

This approach enables organisations to begin with a focused proof-of-value deployment and expand across buildings, campuses or portfolios without replacing existing systems or becoming locked into a single device or software vendor.

Traditional building monitoring

  • ×Focused primarily on assets already connected to the BMS
  • ×Expensive and disruptive to extend using new cabling
  • ×Reactive alarms or calendar-based maintenance
  • ×Data fragmented across systems and contractors
  • ×Limited visibility of smaller, legacy or standalone assets

Meshed Smart Facilities Management

  • Combines BMS data with scalable low-power IoT sensing
  • Rapid retrofit deployment with minimal infrastructure
  • Real-time trends, predictive indicators and condition-based maintenance
  • Unified dashboards with open API and CMMS integration
  • Portfolio-wide visibility across building health, energy, assets, occupancy and water
The specs

What sits underneath every Smart Facilities Management deployment

Enterprise-grade wireless sensors for environmental monitoring, energy and water metering, occupancy, vibration, temperature, pressure, leak detection, tank level and dry-contact monitoring
Secure, scalable LoRaWAN® connectivity for indoor and outdoor deployments, with Ethernet, cellular or optional satellite gateway backhaul
Real-time dashboards, site maps, alerts, trend analysis and predictive asset intelligence
Integration with CMMS, asset management, Digital Twin and business intelligence platforms using APIs, BACnet, Modbus, MQTT and others
Open standards architecture with customer ownership of operational data
Fully managed SaaS platform including network, device, application and operational support

The questions facilities and property teams ask first

Can Smart Facilities Management integrate with our existing BMS?

Yes. We use open protocols and APIs, including BACnet, Modbus, MQTT and REST, to ingest available BMS, meter and controller data before adding sensors to fill monitoring gaps.

Does the solution replace our BMS or certified safety systems?

No. It complements existing building control and life-safety systems. Supplementary monitoring must not replace, override or delay certified fire detection, evacuation or emergency response procedures.

What assets can be monitored?

Applications include HVAC, heat pumps, chillers, boilers, pumps, lifts, fans, motors, switchboards, laundry equipment, indoor environments, occupancy, water systems, tanks and critical plant rooms.

How long do LoRaWAN sensors operate on battery?

Depending on the use case, reporting frequency and environment, many low-power devices can operate for five years or more without external power.

Can alerts create maintenance work orders?

Yes. Alerts can be integrated with CMMS, service-management and work-order platforms to automate maintenance workflows and provide supporting trend information.

How quickly can a pilot be deployed?

A focused proof-of-value deployment can often be operational in days using pre-configured gateways, sensors and dashboards, subject to site access and installation requirements.

Getting started

Start where better information pays fastest

Start with the building assets or operational issues where better information can produce a clear and measurable outcome. High-value pilot applications commonly include HVAC fans and filters, commercial hot-water heat pumps, lifts, pumps and motors, electrical circuits, indoor environmental quality, water metering and leak detection.

We can help define the use case, connect existing building data, select the appropriate sensors, deploy secure connectivity and configure dashboards and alerts. A focused pilot can demonstrate value quickly and provide a scalable foundation for wider deployment across your property portfolio.

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