Override Building Light Schedule From the Palm of Your Hand

This post is part of The Guide to Building Management Technologies.  

Have you ever had complaints about building managers and personnel having to walk all over the place to push the lighting override button, only to have to go and do it again an hour later? What about finding out the next day that the lights were left on all night because no one went back to the override switch and switched it back to off?

Typical override switches are in inconvenient locations, require maintenance, and can get stuck, wasting thousands in energy. With PhoenixET’s EDX Virtual Override, the button is secure, permission controlled, and in the palm of your building staff's hand.

Virtual Override was built to overcome such challenges as:

● Requiring someone to physically switch override buttons on or off
● Buttons that get stuck in the “on” position, wasting energy and money
● Multiple trips to the switch for extended overrides
● Calling in to your vendor to have the system overridden
● “Phantom” overrides by unknown employees
● Maintenance or replacement of the physical switch

With a simple mobile interface, authorized personnel can override building controls in a snap, within the parameters you set via a powerful admin panel. Best of all, you can track the overrides by location or user, so that you can make any policy or schedule changes you require.