NASCIO Awards

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2011 Awards: Information Communications Technology (ICT) Innovations

RECIPIENT:
Michigan - Michigan Business Intelligence System

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The Michigan Building Intelligence System (MI-BIS) is an innovative infrastructure for building operations, energy controls, and two-way communication, which consolidates and enables remote monitoring and management of all HVAC, lighting, elevators, and energy metering into one smart computing and network-supported system. It empowers the state to monitor, navigate, and optimize facility controls and real-time energy usage for buildings throughout the state from remote locations. This is the first full building automation integration system of its kind within state government.

Michigan formerly had to rely on sole-sourced vendors for equipment repairs and performance data. Costs, times of service, and quality of work were dictated. To employ best practices to save money, improve customer service, and increase efficiencies, the state created a new type of smart network, MI-BIS.

The system performs two-way communication with equipment from various vendors and consolidates the data to a central server. Authorized users can access and manage the data via the Internet. In completely integrated buildings, administrators are also able to remotely make programming and control adjustments; thus improving customer service response times by eliminating drive time and allowing work to be performed by fewer employees. Transferability of functions, groupings, and access is a key benefit once building systems are connected. Furthermore, MI-BIS provides the ability to monitor performance efficiencies, which is helpful in planning maintenance and replacement needs. Additionally, the data is integral in identifying inefficient energy use, isolating causes, and reducing energy costs.

MI-BIS is providing many advantages that would benefit other units of government if they developed a similar system. It has provided a cost-avoidance savings of $9.2 million for the state over the lifetime of building operational systems and a minimum of $400,000 annually through the cancellation of sole-source maintenance agreements because it enables greater competition.

MI-BIS is helping Michigan to achieve state and NASCIO goals such as consolidation and optimization, budget and cost control, shared services, IT governance, security, connectivity, and, most significantly, data and information management.

Corporate Partner: Tridium