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

About the project

ALP operates warehousing where the building's job is to protect what is stored and keep the operation running. That depends on a set of systems that usually live apart: leak detection, environmental monitoring, door access and CCTV. Cobler integrated them into one BMS, so the facility is watched as a whole, with alerts that reach the right people by email.

The challenge

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

The problem is not a lack of sensors. It is that the sensors do not talk to each other or to anyone, and nothing turns a threshold being crossed into a message someone acts on.

The solution

Cobler integrated the warehouse's monitoring and security systems into one BMS, and put alerting on top of it.

- Water leak monitoring flags a leak the moment it is detected, before it spreads across a floor or into stored goods.
- Server room temperature and humidity are monitored continuously, with an email alert the moment 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 their own silos.
- Email alerts carry door-access alarms and temperature and humidity breaches to the right people, turning a crossed threshold into a notification someone can respond to.

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

The result

ALP's warehouse is watched as one system instead of four disconnected 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, rather than being found after the damage is done. For the operator, it is fewer surprises and a building that says when something is wrong.

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