New Smart Building Management Tool Enables Significant Energy Savings and Emissions Reductions from ABB

April 26, 2023

  • For facility managers targeting energy efficiency, the ABB Ability™ Building Analyzer offers critical insights on usage and utilities consumption
  • New dynamic intelligence system offers opportunities for energy savings of up to 20%, emissions reduction and maintenance costs savings
  • Cloud-based solution provides an accessible real-time collection of data, deep analytics, and data visualization in one intuitive and easy to use interface

Commercial facility and energy managers now have the option of a powerful new tool to analyze usage and emissions with the launch of the ABB Ability™ Building Analyzer. The new digital solution provides comprehensive and actionable insights that can deliver on cost reductions, improved energy efficiency, time savings and increased comfort, allowing users to make critical steps on their decarbonization journey.

“Buildings and construction consume more than 30% of the world’s energy and generate nearly 40% of global CO2 emissions. With significant presales already, our new ABB Ability™ Building Analyzer is directly addressing customer demands amid today’s energy challenges and the need to lower energy costs. As an intuitive, comprehensive and accessible digital tool it can not only bring costs under greater control but establishes the baseline and path towards full building decarbonization, by helping reduce building energy consumption by up to 20%.”

Beth Ray, Head of Global Digital Solutions Portfolio, ABB Electrification’s Smart Buildings Division

ABB Ability™ Building Analyzer Features

Launching in Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, and Switzerland, ABB Ability Analyzer enables centralization of all critical operation information providing analysis that allows for potential improvement opportunities. It tracks both data (occupancy, equipment runtime hours, temperatures, and costs) and utilities (energy, gas, water, steam) in real time from almost any kind of data source and an unlimited number of data points.

Facility and energy managers that need to meet budget and energy targets will save time and money when using the granular data, deeper insights, target setting, heat maps, alerts and reporting features provided by the Analyzer and gain a holistic view of their commercial portfolio across the globe.

As a cloud-based SaaS solution, ABB Ability™ Building Analyzer extracts the data gathered from meters and sensors, logged in various systems, over a secure internet connection. Manufacturer agnostic, open and highly flexible, it is suitable for commercial architecture of any size and tenant-type and allows its users to connect to the service from any geographical location. The intelligence tool provides easy onboarding and commissioning and supports compliance with legislation, industry standards and corporate sustainability goals.

For more information, click here: ABB Ability™ Building Analyzer

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