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Transform your facilities services through innovative solutions that promote best practices, boost productivity, enhance resilience, and improve experiences and outcomes for your colleagues, customers, and communities.

IFM Advance

IFM Advance leverages proven technological tools to enhance customer success and improve the operational experience in facilities services. These tools optimize best practices, increase productivity, and foster resilience, ensuring optimal outcomes for both customers and colleagues.

We are committed to creating smarter and more efficient environments worldwide. Our solutions include asset-level energy monitoring, advanced restroom management, proactive environmental sensing, and intelligent surveillance.

These practical solutions empower businesses to excel across various areas, including guest management, facility maintenance, workspace optimization, and security enhancements.

IFM Advance Tools

We are dedicated to continually developing and investing in technology solutions that enhance the experience for both our colleagues and customers. Here are three of our upcoming technology tools designed to provide advanced facilities management: IFM Q, IFM ABi, and IFM Live.

IFM Advance Solutions for Customers

IoT sensors monitor odours, wet floors, occupancy, and consumables in real-time, ensuring optimal restroom conditions and guest satisfaction.

Benefits of Enhanced Restroom Experiences
These solutions lead to improved hygiene, minimized downtime, increased user satisfaction, and efficient maintenance scheduling.

We utilize environmental sensors to monitor temperature, humidity, air quality, and other factors, providing real-time alerts to maintain a healthy environment.

Benefits of Proactive Environmental Monitoring
This approach ensures optimal indoor comfort, enhances energy efficiency, enables early issue detection, and supports data-driven facility management.

Our online guard tour system employs QR-code tags, NFC, and Beacon technology to monitor and track the movements of security personnel, ensuring timely responses to potential threats and incidents, thereby strengthening facility safety.

Benefits of Proactive Facility Security
This approach provides increased safety, prevents unauthorized access, facilitates real-time incident response, and enhances overall security.

We implement robotic hard surface cleaners and beacon systems to enhance cleanliness and operational efficiency.

Benefits of Innovative Cleaning Solutions
These solutions result in higher cleanliness standards, automated efficiency, eco-friendly practices, and improved public health.

Our workflow enhances asset maintenance, reducing costs and ensuring that assets operate at peak performance.

Benefits of Streamlined Asset Maintenance
This approach leads to extended asset lifespan, minimized downtime, cost savings on repairs, and improved reliability.

We implement waste reduction strategies, segregate and recycle materials, adhere to environmental regulations, and promote sustainable practices to minimize the environmental impact of manufacturing operations.

Benefits of Waste and Recycling Management (Compliance with Environmental Standards)
This approach ensures regulatory compliance, reduces environmental impact, enhances corporate responsibility, and lowers waste management costs.

We employ efficient waste management strategies, including scheduled collections and recycling programs, to maintain cleanliness without disrupting customer flow.

Benefits of Waste and Recycling Management (Effectiveness in Retail Spaces)
This approach facilitates efficient high-volume waste handling, improves cleanliness in retail areas, minimizes operational disruptions, and enhances sustainability.

Our system includes cloud cameras equipped with facial and license plate recognition, along with cloud-based access control, to deliver enhanced security and real-time visibility.

Benefits of Intelligent Surveillance and Access Control
These features provide real-time security monitoring, theft prevention, customizable access, and integrated security management.

Our intelligent video management system improves security and business efficiency through a range of video analysis modules.

Benefits of Enhanced Security and Efficiency
These benefits include streamlined operations, increased monitoring efficiency, cost savings, and improved incident management.

This offer includes real-time energy consumption monitoring, along with advanced analytics and reporting, to help reduce energy expenses and enhance efficiency.

Benefits of the Energy Efficiency Revolution
These benefits encompass reduced energy costs, a lower carbon footprint, regulatory compliance, and improved building sustainability.

Workspace optimization leverages data-driven space planning, room reservations, and occupancy monitoring to lower real estate costs while enhancing team satisfaction and productivity.

Benefits of Workspace Optimization
These benefits include efficient space utilization, increased employee productivity, reduced real estate expenses, and adaptability to evolving needs.

Our footfall counting system notifies cleaning staff based on restroom occupancy, improving efficiency and cleanliness.

Benefits of Smart FM (Restroom Usage Monitoring)
These benefits include optimized cleaning schedules based on usage data, improved availability, enhanced facility planning, and elevated hygiene standards.

IFM Q – Auditor and Job Planning App

Function: IFM Q serves as an auditor and job planning application, streamlining workflows and auditing processes for operational teams.
Benefits: This tool facilitates efficient job allocation and monitoring, enabling real-time tracking of tasks and providing a platform for auditing activities to ensure jobs are completed efficiently and to the required standards.
Impact: By improving auditing and job planning processes, IFM Q helps minimize operational inefficiencies, ensuring both planned and reactive requirements are effectively met.

IFM ABI – Advanced Building Intelligence

Function: IFM ABi utilizes data and artificial intelligence to equip building operators with comprehensive insights, providing the equivalent of having hindsight.
Benefits: This tool processes vast amounts of data to deliver actionable insights, supporting predictive maintenance, informed operational decision-making, and the identification of trends and patterns in facility management.
Impact: By harnessing data and AI, IFM ABi empowers building operators to proactively address issues, optimize resources, and enhance overall facility management.

IFM Live – Real-Time Customer Communication

Function: IFM Live functions as a real-time communication platform for engaging with customers.
Upcoming Features: Integrated Net Promoter Score (NPS) to assess customer satisfaction and service quality.
Benefits: Provides a direct channel for customers to share their needs and feedback, which is essential for service improvement.
Impact:IFM Live enhances customer interactions, promoting a better understanding of client needs and facilitating prompt responses to service requests or issues.

Connect with your IFM team

We’re ready to deliver the best experiences, productivity, practices, resilience
and outcomes and we look forward to connecting with you and your team.

IFM customer stories

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