Data Standardization
This term refers to when multiple systems use different data formats, making it difficult to share or compare facility information.
What is lack of data interoperability?
This digital tool schedules, tracks, and manages facility work orders.
What is a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)?
This KPI measures how long it takes to complete a maintenance request.
What is response (completion) time?
This foundational principle ensures only authorized users can view or modify FM data.
What is data security or access control?
These smart devices collect and transmit environmental data throughout a building.
What are IoT sensors?
A key benefit of standardizing data across FM platforms, this enables automated analytics and reporting to support decisions.
What is improved decision-making?
This modeling tool supports collaboration from design through operations.
What is BIM?
A high-tech dashboard that tracks energy use, occupancy, and asset health in real-time.
What is a building performance dashboard?
Sharing occupant data without consent violates this FM principle.
What is data privacy or ethics?
This type of AI-driven maintenance predicts failures before they happen.
What is predictive maintenance?
Without standardized data entry practices, this can occur, leading to inaccuracies in asset tracking and maintenance records.
What is data inconsistency or data integrity loss?
This mobile-enabled feature lets technicians receive work orders on the go.
What is mobile work order management?
A dashboard showing live building stats relies on this kind of data.
What is real-time or sensor data?
Skipping data validation can lead to this problem, compromising decision-making.
What is data inaccuracy or bad data integrity?
This emerging reality-based tech overlays facility data onto the real world for technicians.
What is augmented reality (AR)?
This type of FM software often includes integrated modules for space management, maintenance, and sustainability tracking—all benefiting from standardized data.
What is an IWMS (Integrated Workplace Management System)?
This comprehensive software suite combines space, asset, maintenance, and real estate management.
What is an IWMS (Integrated Workplace Management System)?
This common metric compares actual vs. expected system performance to identify inefficiencies.
What is a benchmark?
Failing to follow data retention laws when managing documents and logs can result in this.
What is non-compliance or legal penalties?
This AI-powered virtual facility replica helps predict performance.
What is a digital twin?
This futuristic-sounding method links BIM, CMMS, and IoT using shared data protocols to optimize operations across a facility's lifecycle.
What is FM technology integration or digital twin-based integration?
When a facility uses BIM throughout design, construction, and operations, this FM concept is achieved.
What is lifecycle integration?
This metric tells you how efficiently a building uses energy.
What is Energy Use Intensity or EUI?
AI systems must be monitored for this ethical concern, where certain groups are unfairly treated by automation.
What is algorithm bias?
This futuristic system can automate lighting, temperature, and air quality based on learned behavior.
What is a smart building system or AI-enabled building automation system?