Javeria Aijaz, Managing Director of Dubai-headquartered HITEK AI, the technology and innovation division of smart and green FM company Farnek, gave a presentation to delegates at the 9 Property Technology ConFex, on 9 September, at the Conrad Hotel in Dubai.
“Everyone is racing toward autonomous buildings, but autonomy is only as good as the asset register underneath it. On one estate we surveyed, a technician logged six words about a plant room asset not being operational, which needed to be investigated.
“Our AI scanned 24 photographs of that same room and found an active alarm on a fire pump controller, a live safety fault nobody had recorded. In another building, the register showed one centralised cooling system; when in fact, it was running on two! Any AI optimising against that design intent would be managing a system that no longer exists.
“Verified asset data isn’t the boring prerequisite to autonomous FM. It is the foundation.”
Javeria Aijaz, Managing Director, HITEK AI
During the session ‘From Smart FM to Autonomous FM – The Next Evolution of Building Operations’ Javeria mentioned that it was vital for building operators to confirm that their building asset data is accurate and verified before using AI and connected sensors to self-regulate, predict maintenance needs and optimise energy use.
