Dive Brief:
- BrainBox AI is introducing an AI-powered building management assistant to help facility managers and building operators improve building efficiency by streamlining day-to-day building management processes.
- Designed for use in commercial and retail spaces, the building management firm’s Artificial Responsive Intelligent Assistant, or ARIA, pulls data from a wide range of data sources, including energy bills, HVAC and lighting systems, grid information and external data like weather forecasts and utility tariffs.
- ARIA can step in as an “essential companion to facility managers” by providing real-time insights, alerts and a predictive ability to address operational problems, BrainBox AI said in a news release Tuesday, claiming that this generative AI feature can optimize building operations management by cutting up to 25% of HVAC energy costs and up to 40% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Dive Insight:
Building portfolio owners can harness machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify building decarbonization opportunities more quickly, according to a report from McKinsey. Generative AI is gaining traction among facilities management firms for its potential to assess and optimize building portfolios, with large players like JLL, CBRE and Cushman & Wakefield rolling out their own generative AI-driven tools to bolster their operations and portfolio management strategies.
BrainBox AI says ARIA acts as a personal building ally and enables facility managers and operators to command their building’s operations “from RTUs to chillers, boilers, and more, through voice or text,” generating precise insights from building data and proposing strategic actions in real-time.
ARIA can assist organizations with meeting decarbonization, energy consumption and operational efficiency goals, while enabling building teams to “delegate mundane operational tasks and repetitive analytics to it, so they can focus on more value-driven tasks,” BrainBox AI Chief Technology Officer Jean-Simon Venne said in the release.
The generative AI assistant can also provide personalized visualizations of building performance data, enabling operators to compare and benchmark energy trends, emissions and maintenance schedules across their portfolios, simplify workflows, and send out proactive alerts that notify maintenance teams about equipment failures, extreme weather conditions and energy reduction milestones.
Last November, BrainBox AI announced that it was working with AWS and Amazon Bedrock to develop the generative AI solution. ARIA is built on Amazon Bedrock, which provides advanced models from Amazon and AI companies, using a single application programming interface. The endeavor provided BrainBox AI with access to machine learning to develop AI-based solutions that can be scaled easily, per the news release. The endeavor provided BrainBox AI with access to Amazon Bedrock’s foundational models, enabling the company to build easily scaled AI solutions, per the news release.
“The technology can be connected to office blocks, retail stores, warehouses, and other buildings without the need to invest in hardware or other new equipment. This makes it not only highly scalable, but also very low-risk for any business interested in trying it out,” Omar Tabba, chief product officer at BrainBox AI, said in an Amazon blog post.
The launch comes on the heels of BrainBox AI’s enrollment in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network, in January, with an aim to lend its AI-driven autonomous building solution to AWS customers.
