A staged approach to technology upgrades

Western Power Smart Facilities Management

Western Power maintains over 18,000 property assets across Western Australia. With the large number and geographical spread of all these assets, management is a challenge. When Western Power set out to create a consolidated technology strategy for improved connectivity and to assist in monitoring their building systems across Western Australia, they brought us in to help them implement a smart facilities management platform.

Our Smart Buildings team conducted a holistic review of the entire technology portfolio, including baseline recommendations for an upgrade, refresh, or replacement and creating a pathway to better plan and asset manage. The first stage covered methods and functionalities to be considered for deployment in Western Power’s facilities, and subsequent stages involved scaling these solutions across multiple sites to deliver a more extensive technology deployment program.

With the high-level principles set out in our baseline review, Western Power was able to define the connectivity, data exchange, and aggregation required to establish a data-driven, centrally monitored approach for their facility management. Now they’re set up to be inherently flexible if they choose to adopt future technology developments.