Onboard is how building experts talk to buildings. The only self-serve AI platform for connecting and communicating with your buildings and its equipment.
Building Energy and Optimization Engineers use Onboard’s AI software to acquire the building data they need to improve their client’s buildings. Onboard’s self-serve AI software enables any engineer to collect, standardize, visualize, and share building data across their team or analytical apps. Engineers can flexibly install Onboard’s virtualized software on their IT’s preferred hardware inside the building’s network. Currently, Onboard is focused on BACnet and Modbus data.
Onboard’s AI filters out irrelevant data and applies standard ontologies, including Project Haystack Tags and Google’s Digital Buildings Ontology. Onboard transparently shares how its AI achieved its predictions, which allows engineers to intuitively operate its AI and all other software operations entirely by themselves.
Engineers can export their data to CSV, JSON or use Onboard’s REST API to pipe data to any application. Onboard provides Python and R SDKs for engineers seeking to flex their data science skills as well as an ongoing YouTube Series and Knowledge Base for how to creatively use your building data.
Onboard’s uniquely lightweight approach makes Onboard attractive to smart building consultants and OEMs alike, anyone needing a scalable, transparent and a cost-effective method for normalizing building data across portfolios. Onboard is an enabler of use-cases; its mission is to equip every engineer with the data they need to improve the world’s buildings.
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While utilities and policymakers promote “demand flexibility” as a simple way for buildings to cut costs and support the grid, the reality is far messier: siloed systems, manual playbooks, and misaligned incentives make coordination far harder than theory suggests. Emerging solutions—like aggregators handling grid relationships, automation providers standardizing control, and readiness assessments that reveal real system capabilities—are making progress, but success today comes from solving specific pieces of the puzzle rather than achieving full multi-system optimization.
Poor cellular coverage is the number one tenant complaint in many commercial buildings, and DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) is often proposed as the solution. But with costs ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, building owners need to understand what they're really getting. Our panel explores the critical questions every owner should ask before investing in DAS technology in our latest Nexus APAC building owner meetup.
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