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    SenseStack vs a Building Management System

    Larger hotels and leisure centres often already have a BMS running the plant room. That is a control system: it drives boilers, air handling and pumps against setpoints. It is not built to tell a duty manager whether cabin three is ready for a 7am booking. The two are complementary, not competing.

    Building management systems

    • Primary job
    • Granularity
    • Audience
    • Install
    • Cost model
    • Coexistence

    SenseStack

    • Primary job
    • Granularity
    • Audience
    • Install
    • Cost model
    • Coexistence
    Dimension
    Building management systems
    SenseStack
    Primary job
    Control plant to a setpoint across the building.
    Report readiness of individual guest-facing assets.
    Granularity
    Zone or plant level — a whole spa area is often one zone.
    Per cabin, per plunge, per asset.
    Audience
    Facilities and maintenance engineers.
    Front-of-house staff, duty managers and owners.
    Install
    Integrator project, tied into building services.
    Non-invasive external mounting, typically under 30 minutes per asset.
    Cost model
    Capital project plus integrator time for every change.
    Per-asset subscription, changes made in the dashboard.
    Coexistence
    Keeps controlling the plant.
    Sits alongside as the readiness and record layer.

    Keep the BMS controlling the plant. SenseStack answers the question a BMS was never designed for: can we open this cabin right now, and can we prove it held.