Category: Technology

Optimizing Efficiency with Smart Building Sensors

Optimizing efficiency is paramount to ensuring smooth operations and a pleasant environment for facility occupants. At WOW! Building Maintenance Solutions, we understand the importance of leveraging technology to achieve this goal. Therefore, building sensors emerge as an invaluable tool, allowing us to gather real-time data on occupancy levels, movement patterns, and environmental conditions within your facility.

Identifying High-Traffic Zones for Targeted Cleaning Strategies

One of the key advantages of building sensors is the ability to pinpoint high-traffic zones within a facility more accurately. By doing so, we can strategically place sensors in critical areas, such as entrances, hallways, and common areas. As a result, we can precisely track foot traffic and occupancy levels throughout the day. Consequently, this data empowers us to implement targeted cleaning strategies, focusing our efforts where they are needed most. In turn, this ensures that we maintain pristine cleanliness and hygiene standards.

Enhancing Safety and Hygiene Protocols

At WOW! Building Maintenance Solutions, safety and hygiene are non-negotiable priorities. For this reason, building sensors play a pivotal role in supporting our commitment to creating a safe and healthy workspace for your occupants. Specifically, by monitoring factors like occupancy density and air quality in real time, we can proactively address potential hazards. This means we can implement preventive measures to mitigate risks, such as increasing cleaning frequency in high-traffic areas or adjusting ventilation systems for optimal indoor air quality.

Optimizing Resource Allocation for Cost-Efficient Solutions

In today’s competitive business landscape, cost efficiency is paramount for property managers and facility maintenance professionals. That is why building sensors offer a cost-effective solution by providing actionable insights into resource allocation. For instance, by accurately identifying high-traffic zones and occupancy patterns, we can optimize our cleaning schedules, staffing levels, and product usage. Not only does this ensure maximum efficiency, but it also minimizes waste and unnecessary expenses.

Driving Sustainable Practices for a Greener Future

As an established Building Services Contractor (BSC) in the Commercial Cleaning Industry, WOW! Building Maintenance Solutions is committed to driving sustainable practices and minimizing our environmental footprint. With this in mind, building sensors align seamlessly with our mission, enabling us to implement data-driven cleaning strategies that prioritize sustainability. For example, by optimizing energy usage, reducing water consumption, and minimizing the use of harsh chemicals, we can create a healthier and more environmentally friendly workspace for your building occupants.

Elevate Your Facility Maintenance with WOW! BMS

Building sensors revolutionize the way property managers and facility maintenance professionals approach cleanliness, safety, and efficiency. Because of this, WOW! Building Maintenance Solutions harnesses the power of innovative technology to deliver exceptional results for our clients. So, why wait? Partner with us to experience the difference firsthand and elevate your facility’s health and safety to new heights. Get in touch with us today to learn more about our innovative solutions and discover how we can transform your workspace into a safe, healthy, and productive environment.

Electrostatic Sprayers are being used more frequently because of their effectiveness in disinfecting high-touch surfaces. While it is an innovative tool, it is important to understand how to use it and how it works to maximize its potential.

What is Electrostatic Technology Disinfection?

Electrostatic Disinfection involves turning a disinfection solution into an electrostatically charged mist that is then sprayed onto objects or surfaces. When sprayed, it leaves an even coat of a specialized solution on top of the surface that is made to kill bacteria, germs, and many types of viruses – like COVID-19. This provides a wide variety of benefits. First, the process is time saving which makes the job quicker and safer because cleaning technicians can minimize contact with the surface, and it only takes 1 to 5 minutes depending on the disinfectant used; to eliminate 99.99% of pathogens.

How is it Used?

The Electrostatic sprayer uses a special disinfectant solution that is combined with air and atomized by an electrode inside the sprayer. This creates positive charged particles that electromagnetically lock on to negatively charged pathogens on surfaces that need cleaning & disinfecting. What this means is that the mist will automatically lock on to a surface even when it is not discharged directly in the direction of the object. With this technology it makes it easier to reach places in many angles such as tables, desks, chairs, doorknobs, and other oddly shaped objects. Even with this convenient use of the electrostatic sprayers, it is still highly recommended for trained cleaning technicians to handle them for optimal use and for the safety of your staff.

The Benefits of Electrostatic Disinfection

While traditional methods of disinfection are still an effective way of combating COVID-19 in your facility, hey cost more and are less effective than Electrostatic Disinfection. Electrostatic Spray Technology increases disinfection effectiveness by ensuring that the entire surface receives an even coat of the disinfection solution. All disinfectants are OSHA, EPA and CDC approved and compliant. Electrostatic Technology also offers better efficiency as it is safer and applies the solutions evenly & consistently onto all high-touch surfaces. It causes no disruption to existing areas, papers, or surfaces with a rapid kill time with no residue left behind. The mist can be sprayed on keyboards, phones, and other electronic high-touch areas without causing any damage.

Safety Precautions

Like with all disinfection processes, it is critically important for cleaning specialists to clean the surface before applying a disinfection solution to it. Pathogens on a surface creates a slimy substance called Biofilm. This allows bacteria to be housed from direct contact with disinfection solutions. Cleaning with soap and water removes the Biofilm which then allows the disinfection to be effective in delivering 99.99% bacteria kill. It is also important to ensure that the facility has proper ventilation when your cleaning specialists clean and disinfect. Poor ventilation can lead to unwanted consequences such as permanent health injury or death.

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Keeping a facility clean and healthy is not an easy task. Due to the many assets to care for in a facility, ranging from restrooms to the numerous types of flooring to upholstery, it usually takes a lot of cleaners to get the task done. To effectively care for your facility, we rigorously train our team members and equip them with the latest technology and equipment. We firmly believe in protecting the health and safety of our team members and as a result, they work to the best of their abilities to protect the health and safety of your facility occupants.

Cleaning Thoroughly for Health

COVID-19 has taught us many lessons including the importance of cleaning and hand hygiene. Caring for your facility means doing more than the regular “trash and dash” strategy. The CDC provide examples of high-touch surfaces which includes counters, tables, doorknobs, light switches, stair rails, and more. But further explanation is essential to reduce waste and improve efficiency. An example: a light switch in an office that is unused or has only a single occupant is not a high-touch surface. A high-touch surface is a surface that is used frequently by multiple people throughout the day.

Electrostatic Disinfection

The use of Electrostatic technologies has made the disinfection process five times faster than traditional disinfecting. While the electrostatic technology allows cleaners to work faster, it is also proven to be more effective when disinfecting any surface. Our trained disinfection specialists use these electrostatic technologies to disinfect the side, underside, and backside of surfaces. The electrostatic equipment atomizes the disinfection solution and transform it into a mist that, once sprayed on a surface, wraps the solutions around all sides of the surface. However, no matter how much a surface is disinfected, it will be futile and a waste of resources if the surface is not cleaned before applying disinfectants.

 

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Technology has advanced the way people do almost everything, and that is no exception when it comes to physical security. With the integration of contact-less technologies, facility managers are able to address a major concern that patrons may have, by putting health and safety first. According to a 2020 Facility Management survey, health, safety, and security are among the greatest concerns that facility managers are always looking to address. More than 75% of the facility managers who responded to the survey said health and safety is a major operational concern.

Maintaining Health & Safety

Minimizing contact with potentially contaminated surfaces is crucial for a hygienic building environment. By eliminating the need to physically interact with high-use surfaces, facilities can help stop the spread of infections. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), bacteria can survive for several days on high-touch solid surfaces, such as door handles, elevator buttons or even the hand sanitizer holder – if it’s not cleaned & disinfected properly. With the implementation of contact-less technologies, the need to interact with potentially infected high use surfaces will be significantly reduced and it will also grant patrons a secure entrance method that doesn’t require contact with high-use check in surfaces.

Streamlining Security

Facilities face numerous security risks including robbery, damage to property, and theft of data or assets. Facility managers need efficient security mechanisms to mitigate these threats and protect the peace of mind of facility occupants. Touch-less technology is providing facility managers an innovative approach to their security strategy and protocols for the safety of their facility. By integrating contact-less visitor management systems into their security strategy, facility managers can visually verify patrons through video intercom. Remote access capabilities, either audio or visual, promotes a healthy environment for social distancing.