SRT Labs
Smart Buildings, Smarter Operations

If your buildings and critical systems could talk, what would you ask them? Would you want to know how often they are used, or whether they need to be maintained? Perhaps you would ask why utility consumption was higher last month, and what you can do to reverse that trend. With the answers at your fingertips, what kinds of improvements would you make?

SRT Labs has been serving the needs of smart buildings, campuses, and cities for over a decade, with flexible solutions designed to answer the big questions impacting operations and take action automatically to get results. SRT’s proprietary technology, the M1 Platform, supports a wide range of commercially available hardware and software integrations, including IoT sensors, smart meters, service robots, and building automation systems. Named after the M1 portion of the brain that controls motor functions, SRT’s M1 Platform is the control center for smart devices and connected systems.

The M1 Platform allows teams to monitor, analyze, and automate their entire fleet of connected devices, enabling data analysis, critical action alerts, and reporting to get a comprehensive view of the environment. This allows organizational leaders to answer complex questions, like “how often are we cleaning spaces that haven't been used” or “where are we experiencing breaches in safety and security compliance,” without the need for spreadsheets or external tools.
“By creating a data layer across the city, we are not just solving the problem that one specific technology was bought to do, but amplifying the value by allowing it to tie in with all the other systems across the city,” says Gregory P. Scott, PhD, CEO of SRT Labs. As the foundation of modern urban data management, the M1 Platform is pivotal in powering the smart building and cities of tomorrow.

Today, many organizations with physical infrastructure have already started implementing smart sensors or meters. Without a concerted approach, this can lead to data silos where pieces of information lie in various systems, requiring cumbersome manual processes to extract and analyze. For organizations that need help evaluating smart technology initiatives, SRT Labs offers a comprehensive system audit to assess existing infrastructure and software and formulate a recommended roadmap. The audit focuses on evaluating data-level access to existing tools, guiding the administrators to evaluate priorities, and outlining where expanded capabilities are likely worth the investment.

For organizations with clearly defined goals that are ready to begin implementing a solution, SRT Labs is available to assist with hardware selection and analytical design. SRT Labs’ team of in-house industry experts support customer success through each stage of a rollout, with tailored ‘white glove’ services that deliver professional, high quality outcomes.

By creating this data layer across the city, we are not just solving the problem that one specific technology was bought to do, but amplifying the value by allowing it to tie in with all the other systems across the city

Coupled with a hardware landscape that becomes more affordable every year, SRT’s library of plug-and-play software solutions make smart technology initiatives more accessible than ever. Among cities and water utilities, for example, SRT Labs has noted an increase in water management projects as a smart technology focus. The M1 Platform provides state-of-the-art solutions designed to support the needs of these customers, allowing them to improve service quality and accuracy and maintain compliance with regulatory agencies.

In addition to serving a growing interest in commercial and local government sectors, SRT Labs has partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense to design an application for maintaining critical components such as pumps, fan motors, and machinery used on bases. This partnership established a comprehensive system, enabling condition-based and predictive maintenance for their infrastructure, optimizing operational efficiency. SRT’s M1 Platform provided real-time status updates on the replacement of consumables and the operational run-time hours of motors, prompting timely servicing interventions. The system’s capabilities have since been made commercially available to maintenance teams around the world, offering real-time access to insights and seamless work order integration.

For these teams and many others, the M1 Platform has become the foundational data layer, with the ability to record environmental indicators, traffic, and other relevant metrics over time, providing, both, a robust history of the environment and a mechanism for taking action immediately. The establishment of this data ecosystem enables the creation of critical action alerts, analytics, and automation, which drive organizations toward more effective outcomes.
While the goals of SRT’s customers may vary slightly from one to the next, clear themes have emerged across industries and use cases: complex systems with labor shortages can benefit. Organizations on the smart technology journey are making an investment in their future; they want to discover problems sooner, improve operational efficiency and effectiveness, and, ultimately, save money.

SRT’s M1 Platform is flexible and modular with available support for a wide range of modern devices and integration protocols, including options for legacy, offline equipment. SRT Labs understands that the pathway to a smarter building, campus, or city is taken one step at a time, and aims to support existing infrastructure that is still serving its purpose, alongside the modern fleet.

SRT Labs not only provides effective software solutions; it presents a vision for the future of smart urban development. With SRT’s commitment to innovation, the company stands ready to empower cities and campuses to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world. Through the M1 Platform, SRT Labs redefines how organizations interact with their infrastructure, paving the way for a smarter, more sustainable future.