AI and Facility Management: How to Avoid Potential Pitfalls

Discover insights from J. Wickham Zimmerman, CEO of Outside the Lines, in an article featured in Buildings Magazine where he shares how Artificial Intelligence helps Property Professionals.

The right AI investment can save time and money—but a poorly engineered solution can cause more issues than it solves. Here’s what you need to know about using AI in facility management.

Where to Use AI in Buildings

Today’s AI models are fairly good at a few basic tasks, including:

1. Reviewing and analyzing large data sets of different formats. “It’s very good at analyzing tremendous amounts of data,” explained J. Wickham Zimmerman, CEO and cofounder of OTL, a provider and preserver of habitats, waterscapes, landscapes, and natural environments. OTL designed an interactive water feature at EpicCentral in Grand Prairie, Texas, that uses AI to respond to visitors’ movements with water jets and changing light colors. “With the use of cameras, it can identify and locate objects and movement and then translates that data into output signals that control any equipment running DMX, which nothing else at this point can do effectively.”

Read the full article here.