First-rate facility management and cleaning solution with FacilityApps

The facility industry is shifting quickly towards ‘Cleaning on Demand‘ and maybe even ‘Pay per Use‘ type of services. To make this happen, buildings need sensors that will trigger actions and cleaners will need to have an application to receive tasks. With long experience in the field of facility management, FacilityApps has developed a comprehensive software solution for managing facilities and cleaning.

FacilityApps has their own amazing software development team and to make their solution complete, they were looking for an IoT hardware provider with wireless sensors that could provide real-time data on paper and towel dispenser fill levels. Haltian was the only IoT solution provider with such a sensor device, and soon other Haltian Thingsee IoT devices were added to the solution. In addition to the IoT sensors, easy integration was a big requirement for FacilityApps. With Haltian, the data gathered by the sensors is transferred to Thingsee OPERATIONS CLOUD, from where it is relayed to the customer’s system seamlessly.

Collaboration between Haltian and FacilityApps started in 2018 and continues today. Haltian provides the Thingsee BEAM sensor for towel and paper dispenser fill level monitoring, as well as the Thingsee PRESENCE sensor for visitor counting for passageways.

Both devices are wireless, easy to install, and provide real-time data for the FacilityApps solution. All the sensors connect to each other creating a mesh network, which makes the installation easy as well as reliable in any building. Data is relayed via Thingsee GATEWAY having embedded standard cellular connectivity that works anywhere in the world. Haltian’s support team overseas all the installations giving FacilityApps peace of mind and allowing them to focus on their customers. 

FacilityApps connects to the MQTT stream within Thingsee OPERATIONS CLOUD with a single stream of data for each of its customers.  

With FacilityApps solution, facility managers and cleaning professionals can, for example, do quality management, plan their work, view dashboards, and perform cleaning on-demand, by checking which spaces are used and how much and only fill dispensers that are running low. The solution saves time and money and enables the staff to focus more on spaces that truly need cleaning instead of doing unnecessary checks.

Haltian and FacilityApps have worked closely together over the years and have customers in several European countries. The companies have also joined forces at industry events and marketing efforts: “For our joined marketing strategy, we have teamed up with Haltian a few times on trade shows because we are complementary to each other. This started after Interclean 2018 where we met for the first time and then the first joint trade show was Interclean Istanbul 2019, rapidly followed by ISSA 2019 Las Vegas and continued after Corona at  Interclean Amsterdam 2022”, Chris van den Berg, CCO of FacilityApps says.