eGate Smart Building Innovation
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eGate Smart Building Innovation is a technology company headquartered in Finland. eGate helps property developers, construction contractors and a range of service organisations improve construction quality and occupational safety. The aim is to improve processes, quality, transparency and cost efficiency throughout a building's entire life cycle. eGate consists of high-quality wireless IoT measuring devices and a cloud service that provide users with real-time data, reports and alerts – in other words, a comprehensive picture of conditions on a construction site or in a building in use.
When it comes to improving the quality of construction and building maintenance, it is easy to end up at the mercy of incomplete data. Without seamless remote monitoring, it is impossible to organise processes such as maintenance and cleaning sensibly and cost-effectively. Resources are easily wasted when conditions are not known precisely.
Real-time, reliable remote monitoring makes buildings easier to maintain and helps detect problems early, so that corrective or preventive action can be taken. In a good remote monitoring system, even large volumes of data are simple to manage.
eGate's real-time condition monitoring ensures healthy structures
Developed in Tampere, eGate Smart Building Innovation Oy is an IoT/SaaS service that enables wireless, transparent, real-time measurement of conditions in structures and indoor air throughout a building's life cycle. The collected data is used for reporting and for improving processes and quality.
eGate's customers include property developers and supervision organisations that need to monitor and improve construction quality and occupational safety. They need reliable information from construction sites and buildings in use.
“Our customers get a comprehensive view of conditions on a construction site or in a building in use at a glance. Alongside the easy-to-use software built by Bitwise, the eGate service includes precise measuring devices, which we develop around customer needs together with eGate's strategic partner Nokeval”, says Jarkko Haukijärvi, CEO of eGate.
The real-time monitoring system helps verify things such as working conditions and how far poured concrete has dried. In the metal industry, for example, measuring indoor air can confirm cleanroom conditions. The system produces automatic reports for the needs of different stakeholders.
With remote monitoring, property companies and housing companies can ensure that conditions comply with the Finnish Housing Health Decree and reduce their carbon footprint. In schools, day care centres and temporary premises, for example, pressure differences or particles in the air can also be measured.
The cloud service takes a tenfold increase in customers in its stride
According to Jarkko Haukijärvi, eGate wanted to offer users a renewed, app-based service that was as easy to use as possible. The aim was to make the system more versatile and to expand it. Improvements included measuring device inventory management, visuals and reporting features.
The goal was the best combination of usability and features on the market. “Our system is a comprehensive, continuously evolving service, specified and built together with users and around their needs”, says Haukijärvi.
It was important to solve how to manage the ever-growing volume of data. Scalability is the key advantage of cloud services: the business makes sense even with a small number of customers, yet even exponential customer growth is no obstacle. In the cloud, resources are easy to add – even automatically – and services can be distributed flexibly. For the system, it makes no difference whether there are a hundred users or 50,000.
Bitwise built eGate an automated cloud-based system that makes real-time measurement data available around the clock, anywhere – including dust and particles, temperature, VOC levels, pressure differences, carbon dioxide levels and concrete drying. The user interface is intuitive, and alerts and notifications tell users what they need to do. Data collected in the database is easy to analyse further, and an API enables integrations with other systems. eGate is used for condition management by organisations such as Cramo and Kotka hospital.
The eGate remote monitoring system uses Angular on the front end, a technology well suited to large and demanding web applications. Angular is backed by tech giant Google, so it has a strong user base and, as a result, a long life cycle. Angular is released under the open-source MIT licence, which permits commercial use, including in closed-source systems.
The back end is built around AWS. AWS offers scalable, easy-to-use services that reduce the maintenance burden, improve security and speed up software development. This creates significant added value for the service owner and its customers.
Jarkko Haukijärvi is pleased with the collaboration between Bitwise and eGate: “The people at Bitwise respond to requests and any problems quickly and effectively, so as a customer we've always felt that things are moving forward and nothing is left undone or overlooked.”
Data is a business asset – who can access it matters
A monitoring system cannot afford long outages. Maintainability has to be considered from the very start of a project. The software development process has to be in good shape, because the quality of the final software depends on the methods used in the project.
At Bitwise, we don't compromise on software quality. In addition to our own quality system, we can define complementary quality systems together with the client. Our practice is to review and automatically test all code. Version control and a CI/CD system are always in use, regardless of project size. The most effective and reliable solutions come from dialogue between developers.
When you develop a system on the public internet, cybersecurity and GDPR compliance must be taken care of from day one. Many systems need to process personal data. Bitwise's cybersecurity experts help application developers implement different encryption and authentication methods. Much of today's business is built on data, so it matters a great deal who can access it.
Automated condition monitoring optimises costs, well-being and carbon footprint
The need for automation and reliable remote solutions is growing in construction and condition management. Measuring indoor air and structures makes it possible to optimise construction conditions, safeguard people's well-being, reduce the carbon footprint and help preserve the value of the investment.
In other industries too, services need to be flexible and respond to changing needs. For customers and users, new systems mean not only greater cost efficiency but also better safety and well-being.
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