Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics
- Functional Applications - Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
Applicable Industries
- Buildings
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Building Automation & Control
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Bluewater Health is a Canadian healthcare facility with hospitals in Petrolia and Sarnia, Ontario. The organization features a 10-year-old redevelopment and addition to a 60-year-old building and a 110-year-old building in the midst of redevelopment. The 317,000 sq. ft. addition to the facility in Sarnia featured a significantly larger emergency department; a surgical center with eight operating rooms and four procedure rooms and a consolidated maternal/infant/child program, with labor, birthing and pediatric services all on one floor. The new construction also incorporated many innovative and sustainable design features, such as an underground cistern to collect rainwater, a grey water system for toilets, a state-of-the-art chiller and a new combined heat and power generating plant ready to come online. This makes Bluewater Health one of Canada’s first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified hospitals.
The Challenge
Bluewater Health, a Canadian healthcare facility with hospitals in Petrolia and Sarnia, Ontario, faced several challenges. The organization, which includes a 10-year-old redevelopment and addition to a 60-year-old building and a 110-year-old building in the midst of redevelopment, had to deal with the complexities of managing multiple locations with varying infrastructure. The new construction incorporated many innovative and sustainable design features, but these also brought the challenge of consolidating many inputs of information and technology into one stream of collection and output. Budget constraints and the need to spread finances across every need were also a concern. The Bluewater Health team wanted to perform predictive maintenance, learning from operating data to see issues before they became problems. They sought an intelligent platform that could work with, learn from and grow with their current systems.
The Solution
Bluewater Health leveraged Honeywell Forge Energy Optimization, a cloud-based AI solution that autonomously manages HVAC energy use based on numerous demand factors. The solution captures real-time building data across an entire building portfolio and calculates the optimal set-point strategy for each building, then automatically adjusts the set-points without human intervention. The Honeywell Forge solution was implemented with a direct plan on where the critical start areas were and rules were put into effect for the best analysis. The system began to pull from over 1000 sources of information and provided feedback on anything giving readings outside the acceptable range. The platform allowed facilities and maintenance staff to curtail any issues before they arose, and focus on increasing efficiencies. The maintenance staff could now spend more time performing regular, planned maintenance and strategizing about how to improve systems, rather than reacting to concerns reported by frontline staff.
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