For teams
You spend more on one engineer's laptop refresh than on the air they think in.
A ventilation upgrade is one of the few facilities decisions with a published return measured in orders of magnitude. It is also one that almost nobody can defend with data from their own building, which is the gap a Fleet deployment is meant to close.
The case
The arithmetic your CFO will ask for.
MacNaughton et al. (2015) estimated that doubling outdoor air ventilation rates costs under $40 per person per year and returns roughly $6,500 per person per year in productivity. We are not going to pretend that estimate is precise. We are going to point out that it is two orders of magnitude, and that you currently have no measurement at all with which to argue either way.
Figures from MacNaughton et al. (2015) and MacNaughton et al. (2017), cited in full on the science page, alongside the papers that dispute the size of the effect.
The pilot
Ninety days, one floor, one number at the end.
We would rather you started with a measurement than a purchase order. The pilot is designed to produce a result your facilities team can act on even if you never buy a Fleet deployment.
- 01Week 1
Siting survey
We map your floor against occupancy and the supply-air layout, then place nodes where the readings will actually diagnose something, rather than wherever the power sockets happen to be. Remote for a single floor, on-site above that.
- 02Weeks 2–3
Baseline fortnight
Ten or more meshed Pro nodes log every zone at one-minute resolution while nobody changes anything. At the end of it you know what your building actually does at three on a Wednesday afternoon with a meeting room full of people in it.
- 03Weeks 4–10
Intervention
We work with your facilities team on whatever changes the data actually supports: supply rates, scheduling, capacity caps on particular rooms, or, more often than anyone expects, a door policy. Then we measure the same zones again.
- 04Weeks 11–13
The report
Before and after, zone by zone, benchmarked against anonymised comparable buildings, with the running cost of each change set against the published productivity estimates. The report is yours to keep whether or not you go any further with us.
Fleet
What a deployment includes.
For a floor, a building, or several of both.
- Self-forming mesh of Pro nodes with a rack or wall-mount gateway
- Zone dashboard with per-room alerting and escalation rules
- BACnet/IP and Modbus TCP integration, to close the loop with your BMS
- Quarterly Cognitive Environment Report, benchmarked against anonymised peers
- SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit log, DPA and EU data residency
- On-site commissioning, sensor siting survey and calibration service
- Named technical contact with a 4-hour response SLA
Request a pilot
Tell us about the floor.
Headcount, roughly how the space is ventilated, and what prompted you to look. We reply within one business day with either a proposal or an honest reason why a pilot would not tell you anything useful.
Prefer email? Write to teams@optibreath.space.
Want to try one on your own desk first?
Most Fleet conversations start with somebody buying a single Core and being unpleasantly surprised by their own office.