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Building automation for the whole building, and a smart home in every apartment
The whole building runs on one BMS, and every apartment gets a smart home its residents control from the Bisly app and the Bisly Hub: climate, lighting, blinds, access, bookings and their own consumption. For residential and mixed-use buildings of 20-200 units, new build or renovation, with fewer defects at handover, meters ready for the 2027 deadline and a return on investment in under 3 years.
Mustamäe Manhattan, Tallinn: 212 apartments on one platform
The metering deadline
Heat meters and cost allocators must be remote-readable: in Germany by 31 December 2026 (Heizkostenverordnung), in the EU (EED) and Poland (Art. 45a) from 1 January 2027.
From control per apartment to automation of the whole building
Most residential automation is built around one function or one apartment. Bisly is built around the whole building.
Function-based automation
Each feature has its own device, interface and app: thermostats, intercom, lighting. They do not work together, nobody sees the building as a whole, and energy is wasted between them.
Unit-based automation
One system per apartment, for example KNX or a smart-home hub, ties the apartment together, but there is no site automation. The plant room, common areas and meters stay separate, and every apartment is engineered and serviced on its own: costly and hard to scale.
Bisly, building-based
Every apartment, the common areas and the plant room on one platform and one BMS, configured from the digital twin. The building is optimised as a whole, with machine learning on top, and the template is reused on the next building: affordable, scalable and energy efficient.
| Per apartment (for example KNX in each apartment) | Per function (separate HVAC, lighting and access vendors) | Bisly, whole building (one cloud platform) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All building systems on one platform | No | No | Yes |
| No custom code | No | Depends on the vendor | Yes |
| Portfolio management | No | Depends on the vendor | Yes |
| Remote management and updates over the air | No | Depends on the vendor | Yes |
| Configuration and price at the sales stage | No | No | Yes |
| EN ISO 52120-1 energy compliance | No | Partly | Yes |
One network from the apartment to the cloud, for one building or a whole quarter
Each apartment has a Bisly controller and the Bisly Hub. The building has its own server, router and network switch, which bring in the intercoms, meters, district heating, ventilation and air handling units. The Installer App, the tenant app and the BMS reach all of it over one secure connection, so a site of 20 apartments and a quarter of 1,000 run the same way.
Third-party controllers on Modbus join the same cloud and BMS.
What residents use and what facility managers see
Residents control their apartment in the Bisly app and on the Bisly Hub in the hallway, with one login per home. The manager or the housing association runs the building in the Bisly BMS. Pick a function to see it.
Climate per room
Air and floor heating, cooling and ventilation room by room, with the temperature set from the app or the Bisly Room Controller 4. A window contact pauses heating while the window is open.
Scenarios and lighting
Home, Away, Sleep, Wake and Party in one tap; Leave home and vacation mode set back the heating and switch off the lights. Switched and dimmed lights, groups and scenes, motorised curtains and blinds by room.
Door, gate and intercom
Video intercom, front door and main gate opened from the phone, visitor codes and an access history.
Bookings
Shared sauna, car charging and common rooms booked in the app, with the slot shown on the Bisly Hub. The sauna can be pre-heated from the app, and plugs and appliances run on schedules.
Own consumption
Heat, water and electricity, day and night, this month against last month. Water-leak sensors and alarms reach the phone, and the manager sees the apartment named.
Heating and cooling
The heating substation, heat pumps and cooling on a live schematic: supply temperatures, pumps, valves and the heating curve, changed from the desk.
Ventilation
Every apartment unit and central air handler with its mode, CO₂, humidity and fan speed. Switch a unit to manual for maintenance and back to Auto afterwards.
Meters and billing
Every meter read remotely and exported per apartment, by month, for billing and for the 2027 remote-reading rules.
Alarms
Leaks and faults reach the right person by SMS or e-mail, with the apartment and the device named, priorities and a full history.
Automations
Stairwell and car-park lighting, ventilation and heating in common areas on weekly schedules and holiday calendars, with a run timeline.
One BMS for the building, the portfolio and the commercial floors
The property manager or the housing association sees the whole building in the Bisly BMS: heating plant, ventilation, common-area lighting, access, meters and alarms, next to every apartment. Shops and offices on the same site run in the same BMS, to EN ISO 52120-1, so a mixed-use building has one system and one login.
The Bisly BMS overview: summary values and active alarms for the building. Sample data; names changed.
Homes, shops and offices in one building, on one system
Most new residential projects come with commercial floors. Bisly runs both: smart homes upstairs, commercial building automation downstairs, and the plant room, car park and access shared between them, with costs split per unit.
Shops and offices
Room control, DALI lighting and metering per tenant for shops, offices and cafés, the same as in Bisly commercial buildings.
OfficesShared systems
Heating plant, ventilation, car park, access and lifts run once for the whole building, and every unit is billed for its own share.
New build or renovation
New build
Wired devices, pre-configured from the digital twin and installed with the Installer App while the building goes up. Choose Bisly Home, Home+ or Home MAX per apartment.
Smart apartment packagesRenovation
Panel and block buildings get room-by-room control, plant integration and billing by consumption, installed wirelessly in about 30 minutes per apartment with nothing drilled.
Wireless retrofit for apartment buildingsOne app for the whole home
Climate, lighting, shading, access, the video intercom and energy use in one app, so residents do not juggle separate apps and devices, and handover has one thing to explain.
The Bisly app and the Bisly Hub in an apartment hallway.
Residential and mixed-use buildings on Bisly
69 apartments, 83 rental units and 2 commercial spaces on one platform, with redundant on-site servers and remote monitoring.
View project24 storeys, app-based control in every home and the shared systems on one BMS.
View projectThe full Bisly functionality, including sauna booking in the common areas for every resident.
View projectSeaside apartments with heating, cooling, ventilation, access, DALI lighting, blinds, metering and the tenant app.
View projectWhat it returns
return on investment
of the renovation budget: Bisly equipment on a renovated 40-apartment building, 2,975 m², class B
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