Your buildings, without a proprietary layer in the way.
Commercial buildings are where this platform is most itself. Indagate is the building automation system — it holds the asset model, runs the schedules, carries the trends and the alarms, and writes supervisory setpoints — while the controllers in your mechanical rooms keep executing the sequences they were commissioned with.
What the agent monitors
- BAS / BMS
- Indagate is the building automation system: the asset model, the schedules, the trends, the alarms and supervisory control in one place
- AHU and chiller plant
- Air handling and chilled water, where most of the load and most of the waste sit
- Setpoint drift
- Where the schedule says one thing and the equipment has been doing another since a tenant complained
- Economizer
- Free cooling that is either working or has been failed closed for a year without anyone knowing
- EUI
- Energy use intensity, by area and by period, from retained readings rather than assembled at year end
- Off-shift base load
- What the building draws when nobody is in it, which is the cheapest thing to fix and the least often measured
Energy disclosure and standards
Commercial buildings are increasingly subject to mandatory energy performance disclosure rather than voluntary reporting, with an expanding set of city and state ordinances requiring benchmarked energy use to be filed annually and, in some jurisdictions, penalising buildings above a performance threshold.
The reporting asks for defensible numbers over a period. Readings retained with the identity of the model that produced them, timestamped and immutable, are a materially different position at audit than a figure assembled from a spreadsheet after the fact.
Which ordinances and thresholds apply depends entirely on jurisdiction and building size.
What a failed economizer costs for a year.
Economizer faults are among the most common and least detected failures in commercial HVAC, because a building with a failed economizer is still comfortable. Nothing complains. The only symptom is the bill, and the bill has too many other variables in it for anyone to isolate the cause from the invoice alone.
Assess the impact using your own downtime, rework, investigation and operating costs. Agree a baseline and success criteria for the evaluation.
This is the class of fault an agent is well suited to: it is invisible to occupants, obvious in the data, and nobody's job to look for.
Whole-portfolio building automation
Operate and maintain
Investigate HVAC drift, out-of-hours energy use and recurring faults using building telemetry, operating schedules and work orders. Hospitals, clinical facilities and airport terminals run on the same systems and sit here.
Commission and hand over
Coordinate mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) documentation, commissioning checks and snagging records. Carry equipment context from contractor handover into facilities management.
Systems in scope: BMS, BAS, meters and CMMS. Integration scope depends on the installed system, available interfaces and agreed access. Explore the terminology.
Where it reports
- BAS and building automation — through governed interfaces, reading what it already reports
- Energy and sustainability reporting — including EUI by period
- CMMS work orders — where a fault rather than a schedule is implied
- Existing dashboards — via outbound webhooks
- A retained record — of every reading and every change proposed
What actually runs, and where.
- Task
- Signal models over meter, sensor and BAS data, with CV where only a gauge exists
- Typical target
- x86_64 gateway or Raspberry Pi 5, alongside the existing BAS
- Mode
- Continuous sampling with scheduled reporting
- Reach
- Read-only monitoring and proposed setpoint changes for review
The controls, the interlocks and the equipment safeties stay exactly as they are. Proposed setpoint changes are reviewed by the facilities team and applied through its approved building-control procedures. The public demo does not change live equipment.
The override nobody released.
Across 6,500 buildings in LBNL’s Smart Energy Analytics Campaign, fault detection found a median 9% whole-building saving with a two-year payback — chiefly from scheduling, simultaneous heating and cooling, and setpoints that had drifted from their intent and never been revisited.
Every one of those is a decision somebody made once and nobody owned afterwards. An override with an actor, a reason and an expiry on the record is one you can find and release. An override in a tag list is one you find at the utility bill.
Kramer et al., LBNL, Proving the Business Case for Building Analytics, 2020 (measured; self-reported savings). How long overrides persist is not measured anywhere we could find, and we do not claim a figure.
Configure the platform around your equipment.
Start with a relevant industry pack, then tailor its equipment points, monitoring rules and alerts to your specifications. Combine it with compatible custom models and map checks to the standards and procedures your team works to.
Start with one building.
Send a year of meter data and your BAS point list. The free audit comes back with where the load actually goes and what a first agent would watch.