IoT & Monitoring for Smart Buildings
IoT sensing, monitoring, and automation for smart buildings and facilities in Canada. Custom sensors, dashboards, and integration.
Buildings and facilities generate value from data — energy, occupancy, air quality, equipment health — but only if it is captured reliably and acted on. 5Tech engineers the sensing, connectivity, and dashboards to make that real.
Overview
Buildings and facilities produce value from data — energy, occupancy, air quality, equipment health — but only when it is captured reliably and acted on. We engineer the sensing, connectivity, and dashboards that make that real, and we do it in a retrofit-friendly way so you are not tearing into an occupied building to get visibility.
Where an interface to your building systems exists, we integrate with it; where it does not, we add the measurement and connectivity layer that is missing — including custom sensing when an off-the-shelf product does not fit. Data flows into a monitoring dashboard with alerting so facilities teams get timely, actionable information across sites rather than siloed readings nobody sees.
Common deployments include environmental and energy monitoring, occupancy and space-utilisation sensing, condition monitoring for HVAC and critical assets, and automated alerts and reporting — unified into one view across systems and locations.
Facilities projects live or die on retrofit practicality and reliability, so we choose sensing and connectivity that go in without tearing up an occupied building, and we plan for power, mounting, and long-term maintenance from the start. Where your building systems expose data, we integrate with them; where they do not, we add the missing measurement and connectivity layer, including custom sensing when nothing off-the-shelf fits. The output is a monitoring dashboard with alerting that turns readings into timely action for facilities teams, unified across sites rather than scattered across separate systems. You own the system and its documentation, and we scope a small pilot — a floor, a system, or a single metric — before rolling out across a portfolio, so the value is proven before the investment scales. Throughout, we are honest about which data is easy to capture reliably and which requires more effort.
The industry challenge
Facility data is siloed across systems or missing entirely, retrofitting sensing into existing buildings is awkward, and dashboards rarely turn readings into timely action.
How 5Tech helps
5Tech designs custom or off-the-shelf sensing, reliable connectivity, and a monitoring dashboard with alerting — retrofit-friendly and integrated with the systems you run, so facilities teams get visibility and automated alerts.
Example automation ideas
Depending on your operation, practical automation in this sector can take forms such as these:
- Environmental and energy monitoring (temperature, air quality, power)
- Occupancy and space-utilisation sensing
- Equipment condition monitoring for HVAC and critical assets
- Automated alerts and reporting for facilities teams
- A unified dashboard across sites and systems
Typical deliverables and benefits
In practice, working with 5Tech on this kind of project typically means:
- Automation focused on a measurable business outcome, not technology for its own sake
- Integration with the equipment and software you already run, not a rip-and-replace
- A small, proven first step before any large commitment, so cost and risk stay low
- Documented, maintainable systems your team can operate and own
- Safety and reliability designed in from the start, not bolted on afterwards
- Honest guidance on what to automate first — and what is not worth automating yet
- One accountable engineering partner across sensing, motion, control, software, and data
Relevant services
The 5Tech services most often applied in this sector are:
Frequently asked questions
Can you retrofit sensing into an existing building?
Yes. Retrofit-friendly sensing and connectivity is a common request; we choose approaches that avoid major disruption.
Do you integrate with our building systems?
Where interfaces exist, yes — and where they do not, we can add the measurement and connectivity layer that is missing.
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