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Zurich insite monitors the health of your locations – helping you to eliminate threats before they happen
Reveal where hidden risks lie
In today’s hyper-digitised world, Facilities and Risk Managers can collect a wealth of information to help them identify hidden risks in their buildings. However, establishing and monitoring the systems required to do so can be time and resource intensive.
Zurich insite’s all-in-one solution offers the digital and physical tools you need to effectively manage, monitor and act on data gathered from your business’ physical footprint.
Retail
- Maintaining visitor comfort whilst balancing energy usage against overall operations.
Manufacturing and Production
- Monitoring conditions for businesses where specific operating requirements like temperature and humidity are required. For example, industrial baking and frozen or chilled goods.
Warehousing
- Ensuring correct storage of 3rd party goods in transit. Monitoring safety requirements that could be impacted by building usage.
Data Centres
- Protecting key equipment and recording how factors such as temperature and humidity control impact operating environments.
Office Buildings
- Tracking occupancy, lighting, air quality and desk usage. Maintaining optimal building temperature.
Schools
- Monitoring operating times of key mechanical and electrical equipment. Insight into usage during holidays, or where longer periods of operating are needed for evening classes and other similar events.
Colleges and Universities
- Protection of physical research data within buildings and intelligence on how these specialist requirements may require enforcement through building operations.
Hotels and Campus Accommodation
- Ensuring occupants’ safety and comfort, whilst providing the appropriate flexibility necessary to deliver tailored experiences. Oversight on where controls are being manually overridden.
Protecting your business with Zurich insite
Quick and easy to install, the Zurich insite observer device enables you to gather rich, clear data on building performance. It’s also compatible with a wide variety of other monitoring systems, so you can identify and understand a large range of potential building issues.
Establish your building’s baseline
Once set up, Zurich insite will start collecting and analysing data immediately, building up an accurate image of your operation’s baseline.
Act early to minimise cost and disruption
With your baseline established and access to a wide variety of data points, it’s easy to reveal your risk exposures. Whether it’s moisture buildup or faulty sensors – you’ll be able to quickly address threats when they develop.
24/7 monitoring for rapid risk response
Not all risks can be predicted. When an issue does occur, 24/7 notifications mean you’ll be the first to know. Plus, with a real-time dashboard, you’ll be able to effectively monitor ongoing situations.
Winner of the European Risk Management award 2023
Zurich insite: Technology Innovation of the Year
Case study: tackling a humidity buildup in Zurich’s UK offices
Zurich operates a wide range of commercial office spaces in the UK, including shared occupancy, city centre locations and an out-of-town campus. We wanted to identify potential risks and operational improvements at selected locations.
Working with the facility manager, we installed a single Zurich insite observer device that collected 6000–26,000 data points from the existing building management system — augmented with a matrix of additional sensors.
In total, over 50,000 data points per hour were collected and transmitted in real time to cloud storage via 4G.
Identifying a costly and disruptive threat to business as usual
Data gathered over a 6 week period showed an air handling unit’s performance was reducing, causing a gradual build-up of humidity. This issue was compounded by a blockage in a condensate pump. If undetected, the communications room would have suffered an escape of water issue, leading to serious computer processing and network outages.
Averting a potentially serious disruption
Thanks to Zurich insite, an estimated loss of over £100,000, plus business interruption, was avoided. Other performance insights, such as previously unidentified energy wastage, led to additional estimated savings of 10-15% (£5,000-£7,500) annually per building.
Visit https://www.zurich.co.uk/business/insite to get your Solution Guide and discover how other businesses have used Zurich insite to effectively manage and mitigate risk.
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