Building Management

In order to efficiently manage a building it is considered a good practice to have a structure that is corresponding as close as possible to the actual physical entity. Floors, Spaces, etc. are a good tool to separate devices into zones, assign control levels to users, manage heating profiles, etc.

Additionally you can utilize floor plans where you can allocate devices, which improves trackability and is useful for maintenance technicians (for example in commercial buildings).

Let us take a deeper look at the Building structure in this chapter and discuss some examples to better understand how one could utilize it.

If you scroll down to the Devices section in the main screen you will find that the table has separate tabs for Floors, Spaces, etc. You can also navigate to any level of the structure via the sidebar on the left.

Building layers

As mentioned before in order to have a structure level and to be able to add or remove components to it, you need to have it created when the Building itself is created. For example a Building that has no Spaces on Floors, will remain so, you will be able to only add/remove Floors and not spaces. Thus, we recommend you create an Entity on each level whether you intend to use it or not at the time.

We are going to look at two examples in more details in the following subsections:

• Floors - top level structure that contains every other level. This is where a Floor plan is added in order to have better device trackability

• Spaces and Rooms - lowest level entities, useful for separation of assets (especially for management or larger commercial buildings)