ALP Warehouse: BMS Integration with Leak, Environment & Security Monitoring

Cobler brought water leak detection, server room temperature and humidity monitoring, door access and CCTV at ALP's warehouse into one building management system (BMS). Door-access alarms and temperature or humidity breaches now reach the right people by email.

The site

ALP operates warehousing where the building's job is to protect what is stored and keep the operation running. That depends on several systems that usually work separately: leak detection, environmental monitoring, door access and closed-circuit television (CCTV). Cobler combined them into one BMS, so the whole facility is watched together.

The problem

In a warehouse, the events that cause the most damage are often quiet ones: a slow water leak, a server room drifting out of its temperature and humidity range, or a door left open or forced after hours. Each is usually handled by its own standalone system, on its own screen, with no one watching overnight. By the time anyone notices, the water has spread, the equipment has overheated, or a security event has gone unanswered.

The warehouse did not lack sensors. The sensors did not share information with each other or with any person, and nothing turned a crossed threshold into a message someone would act on.

What we did

Cobler integrated the warehouse's monitoring and security systems into one BMS and added alerting on top.

• Water leak monitoring flags a leak as soon as it is detected, before it spreads across a floor or into stored goods.
• Server room temperature and humidity are monitored continuously. An email alert is sent as soon as either crosses its threshold, so the team can act before equipment is affected.
• Door access and CCTV are brought into the same platform, so access events and alarms are seen alongside everything else rather than in separate systems.
• Email alerts send door-access alarms and temperature and humidity breaches to the right people, so a crossed threshold becomes a notification someone can respond to.

CobiNeural provides the monitoring and alerting layer over the integrated systems. One platform watches leaks, environment, access and cameras together.

What changed

• ALP's warehouse is monitored as one system instead of four separate ones.
• A leak, an overheating server room or an after-hours door event reaches the team by email while there is still time to act, instead of being found after the damage is done.
• For the operator, this means fewer surprises and a building that reports when something is wrong.

See how the same approach works at other sites in our case studies, or talk to us about BMS integration and monitoring for your facility.