SenseBuilding
Connecting People and Buildings
At SenseBuilding, we provide a comprehensive data overview of buildings, by seamlessly connecting data from all your building systems.
Our intuitive chat-based interface makes it easy for anyone to get the answers they need — no expertise required.
We go beyond traditional building data by enriching it with human experience data, offering a holistic view of buildings — because buildings and people are connected
People and Buildings connect
We spend much of our lives in buildings. It is vital they support our well-being and operate with resource efficiency
Buildings account for nearly 40% of global energy use, so optimizing both comfort and efficiency is essential.
Healthy buildings and thriving people means continuously refining spaces, nurturing human growth, and optimizing energy use and waste for the best outcomes.
This is not just a goal, it’s a journey of nurturing human development and well-being through smarter, healthier buildings.
The Power of Data
Data Drives Synergy Between People and Buildings
Data is crucial for optimizing building performance and enhancing well-being.
However:
- Accessing, integrating, and analyzing data across fragmented systems is time-consuming and challenging.
- Data on human experiences in buildings is often insufficient, hindering efforts to improve both building performance and occupant well-being.
Data Pains
Fragmented Data
Building data is siloed, making access, integration, and analysis difficult, hindering data-driven decisions.
Lack of time, skills and focus
Limited time and expertise make analyzing building data challenging, leading to missed insights and opportunities for improvement.
Insufficient data about human experiences
We lack data on people and their behavior, hindering our understanding of the relationship between humans and buildings. This limits our ability to address issues early and enhance tenant satisfaction.
SenseBuilding - Solving data Pains in buildings
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Fragmented data
Seamless Integration
SenseBuilding integrates seamlessly with the most widely-used CRM, WPM, IoT sensors, and BMS systems, offering tailored solutions when needed.
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Lack of focus, skills, and time
Chat-based AI approach
Powered by AI analysis, our platform allows users to ask specific questions and receive instant, data-driven answers. The AI continuously scans and enriches data, enabling not only seamless chat interactions but also proactive updates on key areas or alerts for unusual conditions in the building.
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Insufficient data about peoples experiences
Human Experience Data
Personalized feedback requests based on CRM data, mobile ethnography, AI-driven phone calls. Experience data is combined with other building data to provide a complete picture of the people within the building.
AI-Driven Data Interaction
The AI engine analyzes data across systems, uncovering patterns and key insights. These are delivered via proactive notifications and real-time alerts on critical areas or unusual conditions, empowering data-driven decisions.
At the core of the system is a seamless, user-friendly chat interface that makes everyone a data analyst. Simply ask questions and get answers in natural language, quickly and easily, without the need for complex dashboards or complicated analysis.
The Human Sense
Gathering insights into people's perceptions is challenging. Traditional surveys often miss valuable data due to respondent fatigue and low engagement, as they are sent when it suits the sender, not the participant, and lack personalization.
We excel at collecting human experience data, automating short, personalized feedback requests based on CRM data. We also offer mobile ethnography for deeper explorations.
Our system can collect human feedback through AI-driven phone calls, allowing respondents to share spontaneous insights via voice. This feedback is automatically transcribed, stored, and made available through the chat.
Better data - better solutions
When we address data challenges in buildings, aggregate it, enrich it with human experience data, and provide easy access through AI-powered analysis and a simple chat interface, we make it easier to work with data on multiple levels:
Daily Operations
SenseBuilding combines data from various sources, such as occupancy sensors and booking systems, to provide valuable insights, like detecting ghost bookings. This integration enables quick, data-driven decisions for managing room usage and more.
Strategic Planning
Monitor trends in tenant inflow and outflow, identifying areas for improvement to enhance retention, well-being, and strategic priorities.
Dual ESG Support
SenseBuilding supports ESG reporting by providing key data while also directly contributing to ESG goals. It improves building management and occupant conditions, driving operational efficiency and fostering better environments.
Common Building Challenges
Additionally, comprehensive, high-quality data in buildings enables solutions to key challenges:
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Underutilized Spaces
Meeting rooms and other spaces are often booked but unused, or they don’t meet actual needs, leading to wasted resources.
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Misalignment Between Design and Usage
Building layouts and designs don’t always align with how spaces are actually used. To optimize space utilization and occupant satisfaction, it’s essential to continuously understand how people interact with the building
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Delayed Maintenance
Without real-time data, maintenance issues may go unnoticed, leading to costly repairs and interruptions in building operations. SenseBuilding can alert you to abnormal conditions early on
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Energy Inefficiencies
Outdated systems or inefficient equipment can lead to excessive energy consumption. SenseBuilding helps identify areas where energy usage can be optimized to reduce costs and environmental impact
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Occupant Discomfort
Building occupants may experience discomfort from temperature fluctuations, lighting issues, or ventilation problems. SenseBuilding allows real-time monitoring and adjustments to improve comfort levels
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Better Understanding of the Human Experience
People and buildings belong together. We need to better understand how people thrive in buildings to optimize spaces, reduce tenant turnover, and minimize vacancies
SenseBuilding in Action
Examples of How Different User Groups Can Benefit from SenseBuilding
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Property Managers
Property managers can compare building performance, set benchmarks, and identify best practices. The platform provides insights for maximizing ROI and ensures compliance with reporting requirements.
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Facility Managers
Facility managers benefit from real-time monitoring and instant alerts for abnormal conditions. They also gain access to comprehensive data for mandatory reporting. With easy, chat-based access to data, making data-driven decisions becomes more efficient.
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Architects
Architects can gather valuable data to optimize space utilization, design, and renovation. By using tools like mobile ethnography, combined with motion sensor and building data, they gain a comprehensive understanding of space use and experience. With the chat feature, they save valuable time on analysis by diving straight into the data with relevant questions.
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Public Administrators
Administrators of public buildings can monitor performance across municipal properties and meet reporting requirements. Insights into energy consumption, space utilization, and well-being help optimize resource management and promote sustainable solutions.
4 Competitive Advantages
Unified Data Access
SenseBuilding consolidates diverse data sources into one cohesive view, ensuring no data is overlooked and offering new meaning to previously unused data.
AI-Powered Analysis
Our AI quickly analyzes large data sets, identifying new connections and insights that would be difficult to discover manually, optimizing building operations.
Chat-Based Interface
Our intuitive chat interface provides alerts for abnormal conditions or areas that require attention, and also allows you to effortlessly ask questions and receive instant answers in the chat.
Integration of Human Experience Data
We put great care into human experience data, which is often underutilized. By using innovative collection methods, we blend this data with building metrics, offering a comprehensive view that can be easily accessed through our chat interface—surpassing the limitations of traditional surveys.
A supportive culture is key to the success of data-driven solutions
To ensure that data-driven solutions create value, it is necessary to build a culture where data is naturally integrated into daily operations.
By making data readily available and supporting user needs, SenseBuilding works to connect buildings and people through data. It's about understanding what is meaningful to users so that technology best supports it.
Management support is key to fostering a culture where human experiences and interactions are the focus and that supports a more open and data-driven approach to building operation and optimization.
SenseBuilding's solution aligns with key industry challenges
The report "Digital focus for Tenants and Owners in a Sustainable Perspective" (2021) developed by EjendomDanmark, PropTech Denmark, Voxmeter, the Danish Association of Construction Clients, Dansk Erhverv, and DI Byggeri with support from RealDania, highlights several points that support SenseBuilding's visions:
- Fragmented data: Fragmented data is a barrier to digitalization and efficiency in the real estate sector.
- Lack of data insight: Lack of time, focus and expertise makes it difficult for stakeholders in the real estate industry to fully utilize building data.
- Experience data: There is a need to collect and analyze user experience data to improve well-being and operational efficiency.
- Sustainability: Sustainability is a key priority with a focus on energy consumption, resource optimization and ESG reporting.
- Collaboration between construction and operation: The fragmented structure in the construction industry hinders the data flow between construction and operation phases, making it more difficult to optimize the use of data throughout the building's lifecycle.
The platform is developed and maintained by:
Act In Fact ApS
If you'd like to learn more about SenseBuilding, please contact:
Act In Fact ApS
Gothersgade 11, 1st floor
1123 Copenhagen K
Gothersgade 11, 1st floor
1123 Copenhagen K