Threshold alarms report limits and events. OnPoint reads the relationships across your existing trend data to show the evidence, the likely root cause, and the estimated cost, then ranks what deserves attention first by dollars, severity, and ease of repair.
Your team stays in control: OnPoint reads data and makes no control writes. It doesn't replace your BAS or dispatch technicians. Your team or contractor makes the fix. Mark it resolved and OnPoint keeps watching for improvement.
A sample of the patterns OnPoint screens your trend data for. The fault library is built on our co-founders' building-performance research at Carnegie Mellon and keeps growing as deployments surface new failure modes.
Heating and cooling fighting in the same air. Comfort holds, so it rarely draws a complaint, but you pay for both at once.
Dampers stuck or mis-sequenced, paying for mechanical cooling during hours the weather would cool for free.
Equipment running nights, weekends, and early mornings for spaces that are empty.
A sensor reads wrong, so the controls that rely on it respond to bad data while the point still looks normal.
Temporary overrides and one-off adjustments that stayed in place and add up over time.
Cycling, short-starts, and hours far beyond what the load actually requires.
Loops that hunt, resets that never engage, sequences that drifted from their design intent.
Flow stations reading wrong, so boxes under- or over-supply while the readings look normal.
You get a prioritized list, not a wall of alerts. Each issue shows the equipment, the evidence, the recommended fix, and its estimated annual cost, ranked by dollars, severity, and ease of repair.
Example · issues ranked by dollars, severity, and ease of repair
| # | Finding | Equipment | Fix effort | Est. annual impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Simultaneous heating and cooling, weekday occupied hours | RTU-2 | Sequence change | $18,400 |
| 02 | Economizer at minimum position through free-cooling weather | AHU-1 | Repair / recommission | $11,900 |
| 03 | Occupied schedule running 4am and weekends, space unoccupied | VAV-2-08 | Schedule change | $6,200 |
| 04 | Discharge-air reset disabled after a sequence change | AHU-2 | Re-enable reset | $4,100 |
| 05 | Chilled-water pumps staging early against false demand | CHW plant | Staging tune | $3,800 |
Example. Illustrative figures, not from a specific building.
Many fixes are settings changes: many of the costliest issues are control-logic problems — a changed sequence, a schedule that drifted, a disabled reset, an override left in place. Those are often fixed by changing settings rather than buying equipment, so a controls contractor can usually handle them in a normal maintenance window. Some faults do need capital work, and OnPoint flags those plainly.
Prescriptiv, the engine inside OnPoint, is built on our co-founders' building-performance research at Carnegie Mellon. It checks relevant points against the fault library, looking at relationships and patterns a threshold alarm isn't designed to see. See how it works
Your team or contractor makes the fix. Mark it resolved and OnPoint keeps watching for improvement. As you add buildings, issues rank across your whole portfolio.
$105,000
in estimated annual savings opportunities, identified by OnPoint at a 220,000-square-foot school.
See the school resultStart with one building. If the data reveals an issue, we'll show a representative finding and its potential savings. The full ranked list, with root cause and resolution guidance, comes with a subscription.