Building management systems face mounting pressure to meet new demands
Climate change, safety & cybersecurity, and operational efficiency are transforming building management systems (BMS). Climate change is driving investment into clean tech, pushing new government regulations and reimaging BMS into smart, distributed infrastructure management. The rapid adoption of new tech is merging safety and cybersecurity to protect connected buildings from increasingly sophisticated adversaries. Realizing operational efficiencies during COVID-19, BMS is becoming further distributed and remotely managed.
Enabling this transformation is one underlying element – ever-increasing connectivity and software in building infrastructure. To support this pivotal transition, the industry requires the infrastructure to manage devices across a heterogeneous ecosystem.
- Deliver secure, robust, and fail-safe remote updates. Optimize operations and resource usage with delta, automated, phased, and dynamic grouping deployments. Ensure your devices or systems are never bricked and inaccessible with a fail-safe design.
- Monitor your smart solutions in real-time. Mitigate risks and identify disruptions with system-wide log monitoring, automated alerts, and email notifications. Manage uptime with real-time visibility of services and applications across your building.
- Configure devices and applications with ease. Manage and secure configuration changes with role-based access control, configuration history, and change log audits. Define attributes, customize scripts, and track configuration changes.
- Troubleshoot instantly, and resolve quickly. Ensure safety and security with complete remote terminal session replays, connection logs, and access control. Diagnose and remediate issues immediately with real-time device or system access, file transfers, and device testing.
Key benefits
Incorporate clean tech seamlessly
Ensure safety & cybersecurity
Improve operational efficiency
Industrial-grade features
Delta, Application, & Configuration Updates
Improve operations and slash resource requirements. Mender's delta updates and targeted application and configuration updates reduce network traffic and device downtime.
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Gateway for network connectivity and caching
Deploy updates to devices that are not directly connected to the Internet, e.g., only via a segregated LAN. Reduce network traffic by order of magnitudes by caching software updates at one or more Mender Gateways in the building.
Respect maintenance windows
Ensure that updates are only installed during maintenance windows, e.g., at night, by scheduling start time, and guarantee that devices are not in use by encoding arbitrary validation conditions in update packages.
Cryptographic integrity verification
Ensure only authorized, integral binaries are installed on target systems with secure TLS communication between the building and server and cryptographic verification of binary signatures.
