In today’s fast-paced world, engineers are continually striving to make buildings safer, more efficient, and more resilient. With advancements in building automation technology, tools like Bidtracer are revolutionizing how engineers approach building design and safety. How can a mobile app be leveraged to design safer buildings? By ensuring client and vendor integration throughout the building lifecycle.
What is Bidtracer?
Bidtracer is a cutting-edge mobile app designed to streamline the design and construction process of buildings, HVAC systems, and BAS components. It integrates bid management and design collaboration, allowing engineers and project managers to effectively manage and execute projects. App capabilities extend far beyond traditional design tools, offering a comprehensive CRM suite for client history tracking, project management, and connecting building owners and their preferred vendor partners.
Leveraging Building Automation Technology for Safety
Building automation systems are integral to modern construction, providing real-time monitoring and control of a building’s various systems. When combined with Bidtracer’s advanced features, engineers can design buildings with the world’s best products and enhanced safety protocols in HVAC, lighting, security, and fire safety. The app integrates design, costs, and project delivery data to expedite the proposal process and increase client safety faster.
Here’s how:
Access Control
- Biometric Systems: Modern systems use biometric data, such as fingerprints, iris scans, or facial recognition to grant access. Bidtracer helps distributors integrate these complex hardware components into their client-facing procurement portal, where facility managers can purchase access control systems from partners like Schneider Electric directly from you.
- Smart Locks: These can be integrated with mobile apps and key cards, allowing for real-time access management and remote control. They also provide detailed logs of entry and exit times, and building them into systems design when proposing to a client is fast and simple with Bidtracer.
- Integration with IoT: Access control systems are increasingly linked with other smart building systems, enabling automated responses to security breaches or suspicious behavior. Increasing the security of any facility is easy to design and procure with Bidtracer, with no need to call a manufacturer – all component cost and availability is displayed in real time.
Intrusion Protection
- Motion Sensors: Advanced motion sensors can distinguish between different types of movement and can be calibrated to reduce false alarms while detecting actual intrusions. As a building systems expert like Hoffman Building Technologies, sensors and installation parts for sensor systems are complex operations to manage with version releases, catalogs, and spec sheets. All manufacturer data is included in submittals in one click with Bidtracer, reducing actual tons of paper waste and making finding the cost to integrate sensor networks fast and easy for any estimator.
Surveillance
- High-Definition Cameras: Surveillance cameras have evolved to offer high-definition and even 4K video quality, providing clearer images for identification and evidence. Complete Tridium controllers to connect IP video camera systems are available through Sunbelt Controls and their Bidtracer network of users.
- AI-Powered Analytics: AI algorithms can analyze video feeds in real-time to detect suspicious activities, recognize faces, and even predict potential threats. 360-degree cameras provide comprehensive coverage with fewer blind spots, improving the ability to monitor large areas.
Detection Systems
- Environmental Sensors: These detect changes in the environment, such as unusual temperature changes or gas leaks, which can be indicators of criminal activities like arson or vandalism. Honeywell has incredibly sophisticated sensor technology on the market that can be easily integrated during the engineering phase while using Bidtracer, enabling users to save system templates and kits for future use.
- Cloud-Based Solutions: Cloud technology facilitates remote access to building systems and data, enabling quicker responses and more flexible management of security features. Bidtracer software is 100% cloud-based, operating with the same level of accuracy and accessibility as the cloud based systems engineered at Carrier, Johnson Controls, and other Bidtracer users.
Manufacturers, distributors, and contractors of all kinds – your engineering, estimating, and sales leaders can create detailed submittals that feature every potential security solution along with clear costs, product availability, and project schedule, all within the Bidtracer app. Become as globally recognized as Schneider Electric and Johnson Controls, which are Bidtracer users who understand the importance of stakeholder integration down to every single part.
Schedule a demo and invite a client, where you can introduce them to the app functionality that they will have access to at no cost as your authorized user.
