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Remote building monitoring for estates and portfolios

Remote building monitoring for a whole estate from one dashboard: plant rooms, boilers, water, mains supplies and fire alarm outputs, with SMS or email alerts to the estates team.

Nothing in the building is rewired or replaced: the sensors read the outputs your boilers, pumps and panels already have. One ZARC Gateway per building connects over 4G or Wi-Fi, and once it is in, sensors for any new requirement can be added without another installation project. Every alert and acknowledgement is logged as a dated record for insurers and compliance reviews.

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Illustrative photo of a commercial boiler room with two floor-standing boilers, one of the plant spaces covered by remote building monitoring

Real-time building monitoring

Remote building monitoring that starts with one gateway per building

Heating and hot water

Boiler lockouts and flow and return temperatures, reported as they change.

Water and leaks

Water on the floor, supply pressure and overnight flow on the meter.

Power and alarms

Supply loss to plant rooms, and fire and smoke alarm outputs sent off site.

Voids and comfort

Empty units watched for water, entry and frost; CO2 and humidity in occupied rooms.

Boiler lockouts, leaks into risers, supply failures and falling temperatures in void units are reported as they happen, building by building, on the dashboard the whole portfolio uses.

Heating and hot water are the most common complaint. A contact tag on the boiler's lockout or fault output, and temperature tags on flow and return pipework, report a failure as it happens, so heating is back before the building opens rather than after the first phone call.

Water is the most expensive. Leak tags in plant rooms, risers, under tanks and below kitchens report water on the floor and again when it clears, and pressure and pulse tags on the incoming supply show a burst or a meter that keeps turning overnight.

Power is the quietest. A power failure tag on a plant room or distribution board reports the loss and the restoration, so a tripped supply to pumps, lifts or a server cupboard is known straight away.

Fire and smoke alarm outputs can be sent off site as a supplementary alert, so a panel in an unoccupied building reaches a named person. The certified system and its signalling stay as they are.

Some of an estate stands empty between lets, and void property monitoring watches those units for escape of water, entry and frost until they are occupied again. Occupied spaces can report CO2, temperature and humidity where ventilation and comfort are the complaint.

Every building reports to one dashboard, grouped the way the estate is run, with a record of every reading, alert and clear. The same tags and gateway cover a single office or a mixed portfolio.

01

Heating plant

Heating back on before the building opens.

Boiler lockout and fault outputs, and flow and return temperatures, reported the moment they change to the estates team or the heating contractor.

02

Water

Leaks found while they are still small.

Leak tags in plant rooms, risers and under tanks, and supply pressure and overnight flow from the meter you already have.

03

Water safety

Continuous temperatures behind the water safety plan.

Temperatures at calorifiers and sentinel outlets reported continuously, supporting the records the water safety plan already requires.

04

Power and supplies

Know when a supply drops, and when it returns.

Mains loss and restoration on plant rooms and boards, and water and gas supply loss across the estate.

05

Alarms off site

An alarm in an empty building reaches someone.

Fire panel, smoke detector and plant alarm outputs sent to named people as a supplementary alert, without touching the certified system.

06

One dashboard

Every building, grouped the way the estate is run.

Buildings, rooms and tags grouped by region, client or building type, with a record of every reading, alert and clear that exports for reviews and insurers.

Deployment approach

Start with the buildings that cause the most call-outs.

Most estates begin with a handful of buildings and extend once the alerts have proved themselves.

We list the buildings and the plant, water and power points that matter, survey coverage in basements and risers, fit tags without wiring, set limits and alert routes, and test every alert before handover.

Scope

List the buildings, plant, water systems and alarms that matter, and who is responsible for each.

Building by building

Survey

Confirm gateway placement and 433 MHz coverage through basements, risers and plant rooms.

Coverage

Configure

Set temperature, pressure and level limits and alert routes in and out of hours.

Limits and routes

Commission

Test every tag and input and confirm each alert reaches every recipient.

Tested end to end

Extend

Add buildings to the same dashboard, grouped the way the estate is run.

Building to portfolio

Tell us about the estate, the buildings that cause call-outs and who needs the alerts.

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Applications

Where remote building monitoring is used.

Offices and commercial buildings

Heating, water, power and plant alarms across occupied buildings.

Residential blocks

Plant rooms, risers, communal heating and leaks below flats.

Schools and campuses

Boiler houses, kitchens and plant spread across many buildings.

Void and empty units

Water, entry and frost in units between lets.

Plant rooms and risers

The rooms nobody visits until something goes wrong.

Mixed portfolios

Buildings of every age and type on one dashboard.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is remote building monitoring?

Wireless tags in plant rooms, risers, basements and empty units report temperature, water, power, pressure and the alarm outputs of building plant, and alert the people responsible in real time. One dashboard covers every building on the estate.

Does it replace a BMS?

No. It covers the buildings, rooms and points a BMS does not reach or that would be too costly to add to one, such as small sites, risers, voids and plant without a controls connection. Where a BMS exists, it sits alongside it.

Does it need wiring or the building network?

No. The tags are battery-powered and transmit over 433 MHz to a ZARC Gateway with its own 4G link and internal battery backup, so nothing joins the building or tenant network.

Can it send our fire and smoke alarms off site?

Yes, as a supplementary alert. A tag reads the panel or detector output and tells named people off site. The certified fire alarm system and any monitoring contract stay exactly as they are.

What does fitting involve?

Tags fit to pipework, tanks, boards and alarm outputs without new wiring, and one gateway covers a building. A site survey confirms coverage in basements and risers before anything is fitted.

What does it cost to add buildings?

There are no per-alert, per-user or licence charges. The system is charged monthly per tag and per gateway, so a new building is its gateway and tags on the same dashboard.

Watch every building,
not just the ones you visit.

Tell us about the estate, the buildings and plant that cause call-outs, and who needs to hear about them. We will say what to fit and where.

Location

Venator House, Unit 9, 15-17 St Stephen's Road, Bournemouth

Dorset, BH2 6LA · VAT GB 409644484

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