[Brossard, Quebec, Canada, October 22, 2024] – Distech Controls Inc., in collaboration with the Atrius team within Acuity Brands’ Intelligent Spaces Group, is excited to introduce Atrius® Facilities, a cloud-based building management system (BMS) software solution designed to enhance building operations and reduce energy usage. Atrius Facilities offers a comprehensive solution for viewing, managing, and controlling systems across portfolios of all sizes, leveraging edge with cloud capabilities to enhance building efficiency and empower system integrators and facility teams to manage systems more effectively.
Atrius Facilities includes three modules: Organize, Operate, and Optimize. The Atrius Facilities | Organize module, available now, allows system integrators to remotely set up, maintain, and access Eclypse controllers using either the mobile application or web browser interface. Once devices are set up, technicians can view all building control information including device configuration and modification. Additionally, Atrius Facilities enables system integrators to keep Eclypse™ devices updated with cybersecurity checks, new features, certificates, and more.
System integrators who purchase the latest version of Eclypse controllers will have Atrius Facilities | Organize module included at no charge for the first two years. After the initial setup, system integrators can easily transition clients into service contracts and remotely diagnose and troubleshoot Eclypse controllers for any client.
“Buildings have long been large, complex assets with so much untapped potential; Atrius Facilities is designed to unlock that value by using data to create meaningful differences in how end users experience spaces,” comments Michael Westerfield, Senior Director of Product, Building Performance Applications, Atrius, Acuity Brands. “Our solution empowers system integrators with unique advantages that help them generate continuous equipment performance improvements while delivering efficient, high-quality service to their customers. By enabling remote management and troubleshooting, Atrius Facilities streamlines client setups and reduces overall costs for integrators. We’re excited to launch Atrius Facilities as part of our comprehensive Facilities product suite, reinforcing our commitment to open, innovative, edge with cloud solutions."
BMS Software Solutions
Atrius Facilities is available as part of a new BMS software offering through Distech Controls. Together with Atrius Facilities, the Facilities software suite of products includes:
1. Eclypse Facilities: A software solution embedded directly within Distech Controls’ Eclypse-connected controllers, providing management and control for a variety of equipment types within buildings. Eclypse Facilities was previously known as Eclypse Building Intelligence.
2. EC-Net Facilities: A software solution leveraging the Niagara framework both at the building controller and server level that specializes in advanced management and visualization of building devices across small to large portfolios.
Eclypse Facilities and EC-Net Facilities can work both independently and in unison with Atrius Facilities specifically focused on advanced operations that enable systems to always be on, updated, and accessible. With the full Facilities suite of solutions, system integrators and facility managers have a solution that can meet any project requirement.
“By bringing together onsite solutions with cloud-first technology, we’re redefining not just current BMS solutions, but how companies can manage their physical spaces. Buildings have long been sleeping giants that can now come alive with new opportunities to continuously improve efficiency across a space, regardless of when it was constructed,” comments Charles Pelletier, Vice President of Product Management at Distech Controls. “Our products enable seamless interaction between hardware and software that enhances the overall building lifecycle from deployment, consistent operations, to ongoing maintenance.”
Distech Controls and Atrius are both part of Acuity Brands' Intelligent Spaces business unit whose mission is to make buildings smarter, safer and greener through its strategy of connecting the edge to the cloud. Distech Controls has the best edge control devices in the market while Atrius’ services focus on improving automation and operation efficiency using cloud processes with dedicated applications for sustainability reporting, energy management, indoor wayfinding, and real-time asset tracking.
About Distech Controls
Distech Controls connects people with intelligent building solutions through our forward-thinking technologies and services. It partners with customers to deliver innovative solutions that can provide better health, better spaces, and better efficiencies. Its passion for innovation, quality and sustainability guides its business, which serves multiple market segments through worldwide business divisions, service offices and a superior network of Authorized System Integrators and Distributors. Distech Controls is a subsidiary of Acuity Brands, Inc.
For more information, visit the website www.distech-controls.com
Distech Controls is a brand of Distech Controls Inc. and all the other brands are the property of their respective owners.
About Atrius
Atrius is part of the Intelligent Spaces Group within Acuity Brands, a market-leading industrial technology company. Our suite of products and solutions control thousands of buildings, interact with millions of people, and manage billions of square feet of real estate around the world every single day. We deliver solutions that optimize building performance, streamline enterprise operations, and enhance how people interact with spaces.
For more information, visit the website www.atrius.com
About Acuity Brands
Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (ABL) and the Intelligent Spaces Group (ISG), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.
We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and location-aware applications. We achieve customer-focused efficiencies that allow us to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.
Acuity Brands, Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. The Company is powered by more than 12,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuitybrands.com
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