Facilities Management Integration

Facilities management is the control, maintenance and supervision of the fabric and facilities provided by and within your built environment.

A modern hospital contains a number of complex systems for maintaining the temperature at a level appropriate for both patients and health workers.

Systems like air conditioning and central heating boilers are highly complex machines that do occasionally break down.

When a system as critical as both air conditioning or heating breaks down it can cause considerable disruption to the medical functioning of a hospital.

In all probability any breakdown will occur when the system in question is under the heaviest use. So, a breakdown of your air conditioning is far more likely to occur during a heat wave than during the depths of winter and likewise the central heating boiler is most likely to fail during a hard winter.

Whilst monitoring won’t stop a failure from happening it will alert you to the failure more quickly than relying on service users to inform you of a failure, giving you more time for you take remedial action to mitigate the problem.

Many systems used in facilities management provide a means to detect system failure. Devices typically provide one or more dry contact ports that can be monitored to detect failure.

A number of environmental monitors provide a way to quickly and easily monitor dry contact ports for failure and alert you when things go wrong.

Many environmental monitors can interface with your existing alarm system using a dry contact port as input.

In addition, environmental monitors are also able to monitor temperature and humidity levels in a number of locations often utilising your existing structured cabling.