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A Smarter Era of Fault Detection with Demand Logic's Automation Upgrade

As buildings grow more complex and performance expectations rise, traditional approaches to Fault Detection & Diagnostics (FDD) are struggling to keep up. Too many alerts, too little prioritisation, and limited validation of outcomes have left operational teams overwhelmed and reactive.

Demand Logic is addressing this challenge with a major upgrade to Breachbot, an automated feature designed to monitor building management systems (BMS) for environmental, safety, or operational “breaches.”

By combining advanced root-cause diagnostics with the intelligence of our Scoring Engine, this release transforms how faults are identified, prioritised, and resolved. The result is a more focused, outcome-driven approach to building performance, where every alert matters, and every fix is proven.

With the new Breachbot, clients can:

  • Eliminate alert fatigue and focus on what truly matters

  • Ensure fixes are effective, not just completed

  • Quantify the value of operational work in real terms

  • Align day-to-day maintenance with long-term performance goals

Explore the new capabilities

🤖 Smarter Breachbot: Less noise, more action

Systems rarely operate in a simple “working” or “failed” state. Traditional FDD tools often flag every minor deviation, creating alert fatigue and distracting teams from what really matters.

The enhanced Breachbot changes that. By aligning fault detection with performance scoring, alerts are now prioritised based on their real-world impact on energy, comfort, and maintenance.

What this unlocks:

  • Focused Attention: Surface only the issues that materially impact building performance.
  • Prioritised Workflows: Combine fault detection with scoring intelligence to guide teams toward high-impact actions.
  • Reduced Alert Fatigue: Cut through unnecessary noise and eliminate low-value alerts.

⏱️ The Review Window: From task completion to proven outcomes

One of the biggest challenges in building operations is the “false fix”, when a task is marked complete, but the underlying issue persists.

The new Review Window solves this by validating fixes against live data. Breaches remain active until system performance demonstrates that the issue has genuinely been resolved over a defined period.

What it unlocks:

  • Validated Fixes: Ensure that completed actions actually resolve the fault.
  • Closed-Loop Performance: Prevent recurring alerts caused by unresolved issues.
  • Confidence in Results: Back every fix with real operational data.

📡 Expanded Breach Library: Deeper, more comprehensive monitoring

This release introduces a significant expansion of Breachbot’s monitoring capabilities, enabling broader and more granular fault detection across building systems.

New breach types include advanced plant fault detection, heating and cooling delivery issues, AHU filter performance monitoring, and terminal unit inefficiencies such as simultaneous heating and cooling.

What it unlocks:

  • Greater Coverage: Monitor more systems and fault types automatically.
  • Deeper Diagnostics: Identify issues at a more granular, system-specific level.
  • Proactive Maintenance: Catch inefficiencies before they escalate into major failures.

🌬️ Smarter IEQ Monitoring: Alerts that reflect real conditions

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is critical to occupant wellbeing, but traditional alerting often reacts too quickly to short-lived fluctuations. Breachbot now incorporates “time-in-breach” logic, ensuring alerts reflect sustained performance issues rather than momentary spikes.

What it unlocks:

  • Meaningful Alerts: Focus on consistently underperforming zones.
  • Improved Comfort Management: Balance responsiveness with stability.
  • Reduced Noise: Eliminate unnecessary alerts from transient conditions.

📊 Automated Impact Ratings: Every action tied to ROI

To bridge the gap between operational activity and strategic outcomes, Breachbot now automatically assigns impact ratings to every generated action.

Each task is linked to Energy, Comfort, and Maintenance benefits, making it easier to quantify value across teams and portfolios.

What it unlocks:

  • Measurable ROI: Clearly understand the impact of every intervention.
  • Aligned Teams: Connect engineering actions with business objectives.
  • Data-Driven Decisions: Prioritise work based on tangible outcomes.

🛠️ Administrator Configuration Suite: Control at your fingertips

This upgrade also introduces a new configuration layer for Account Administrators, enabling streamlined management of Breachbot within their portfolio. With dedicated views for Breachsets, Breaches by class, and Breaches by asset, users can adjust configuration at both a global and granular level.

What it unlocks:

  • Self-Serve Flexibility: Configure and adjust alerts without relying on support.
  • Granular Control: Tailor application down to individual assets.
  • Scalable Management: Apply consistent logic across entire portfolios or customise where needed.

Turning insight into impact

This Breachbot upgrade reflects our continued commitment to making building intelligence actionable, measurable, and aligned with real-world performance.

By connecting our automated fault detection with impact and validation, we empower teams to work smarter, reduce waste, and deliver meaningful results across energy, comfort, and cost.

Start transforming your approach to building performance today → Talk to our team