Run Your Whole Building as One System
Connect smart home platforms, BMS, access, maintenance, and energy into one operational layer to:
- Reduce administrative burden.
- Respond faster with fewer site visits.
- Keep OPEX under control.
Designed for developers and operators of built-to-rent residential properties.
Smart Apartments Don't Mean Smart Operations
Most residential buildings have smart home automation in the units but the building doesn't run as one system.
Smart home platforms handle the apartments. BMS, access, and metering run separately. Property management software and maintenance live in its own world.
Access codes and keys created manually for every tenant, contractor, and cleaner.
Meter readings exported and then re-keyed into billing.
Tenant requests scattered across WhatsApp, phone, and email; things slip through.
Hundreds of alarms a week with no prioritisation.
Residents have a smart home app but no way to solve simple problems themselves.
Empty units still consuming energy with no visibility or control.
Smart systems exist, but the people doing the work don't benefit from them.
How Fentrica Solves This
Fentrica sits above your existing systems and connects them to each other, to your property management software, and to daily workflows.
Access That Syncs to Contracts
Move-in: contract starts, access & parking activates. Move-out: contract ends, access & parking revokes. No key handovers, no manual setup, no codes left active. Tenants can control doors and share guest access from their app. Vendors, cleaners, and maintenance crews get time-limited access to specific doors — granted remotely, logged automatically. Role-based permissions control who can access what.
Meter Data That Flows Straight to Billing
No monthly meter walks. No Excel exports. No re-keying into billing software. Fentrica pulls readings from main meters and sub-meters automatically, and sends them directly to your property management system. Works with Bidrento, Moderan, and others. Move-out? Final reading captured automatically. Vacant units? Monitored for unexpected consumption. Residents can view their own usage anytime from the app.
Self-Service for Tenants, Fewer Requests for You
Tenants handle most daily tasks themselves — viewing consumption, controlling HVAC and lighting, controlling access, reporting maintenance issues, viewing building documentation. AI-powered guidance helps them understand how systems work and solve simple problems before contacting management. Every question doesn't have to become a ticket.
Maintenance That Runs in One Place
All work orders, vendor coordination, and status tracking in one system. Tickets created automatically from resident requests, scheduled maintenance, or system anomalies. Hundreds of alarms? Fentrica prioritises what matters and what can wait. Many can be diagnosed and resolved remotely — fewer site visits, faster fixes. AI detects issues before tenants notice. A fan running inefficiently, a humidity spike, unusual consumption — caught early, before it becomes a complaint or emergency repair. Full maintenance history for every unit and every asset.
Also Included
Unified Dashboard
A single overview of every aspect of every building. Manage one property or an entire portfolio from the same screen. Alarms, access, meters, HVAC, maintenance, energy — all in one place, with prioritised alerts so you know what needs attention now.
Energy Optimisation
Remotely manage HVAC and lighting schedules across the building. AI adjusts based on occupancy, weather, and energy prices. Empty units, common areas, and night-time consumption are monitored and controlled automatically. 10–25% savings typical, compared to static schedules with no occupancy awareness.
Here's What Happens When the Buildings Run as One
Admin work automated
Less manual coordination. More time for high-value tasks.
Issues resolved remotely
Fewer site visits through remote diagnostics and control.
Maintenance cost reduction
Early fault detection and predictive maintenance prevent failures.
Energy savings unlocked
Optimised HVAC, lighting, and systems working in sync.
Results compared to managing buildings with disconnected systems, manual processes, spreadsheets, reactive maintenance, and static energy schedules.
Meco
Fentrica has built a truly integrated system that helps improve tenant, maintenance and management processes. Tenants can do their own daily tasks from the self-service app like looking at consumption, opening doors, controlling heating, making maintenance requests, whilst on the backend I can have accesses sync to contracts and paid invoices, automate maintenance work orders and vendors management from one portal, remotely manage my HVAC and have a single overview of every aspect of buildings.
Eften Living
Fentrica has consistently demonstrated a strong ability to build, maintain, and tailor custom solutions across different environments for EfTEN Living. They ensure reliable property data export and clear visualisation — exactly in the format our residential projects need. We really value their personal and fast problem-solving approach to fit our unconventional needs
How Fentrica Is Different
Most residential buildings already have smart systems. Fentrica connects them into one operational layer that actually runs the building.
Not a Smart Home Platform
Typical smart home platforms:
Make individual apartments smart. Focus on resident UI and device control.
Fentrica:
Uses smart home systems as inputs and connects them to building operations, maintenance, and reporting.
Not just a BMS/EMS
Typical BMS / EMS:
Monitor or control a single technical system.
Fentrica:
Unifies HVAC, access, metering, energy, and alarms into one operational view used by operations teams.
Not just a maintenance tool
Typical CMMS:
Tracks tickets and work orders. Mostly reactive.
Fentrica:
Creates and prioritises tasks directly from live system data and anomalies. Turns maintenance proactive.
Simple Implementation, Minimal Risk
Get up and running quickly without major system overhauls or complicated coding. Works with your existing systems.
Connect
Connect existing BMS, HVAC, lighting, access control, meters, sensors, and smart home systems. Integrate with accounting and other business software if needed.
Unify
All system data flows into one operational view. Access, meters, alarms, maintenance events, and energy are continuously synced into a single source of truth.
Configure
We help you configure workflows, automations and dashboards and show your team how to get the most value.
Expand
Start with what you need. Add more buildings, systems or features like energy optimisation and predictive maintenance when required.
Frequently Asked Questions
Fentrica works best with buildings that have smart locks, digital meters and BMS. If your building has fully mechanical locks, access automation won't be possible. If your systems don't export data, metering and automation will be limited. We assess your setup before any commitment — so you know exactly what's possible.
No. Fentrica works with: • new developments • existing residential buildings Early alignment helps, but we are not a design-stage constraint.
Yes, one app. Instead of: • one app for smart home • another for access • another for utilities Residents get one clear interface with guidance and context. Fewer apps mean fewer tickets.
We integrate with most modern HVAC and BMS systems, access control and alarms, meters, EV chargers, and common-area systems. We are hardware-agnostic and vendor-independent. If something cannot be integrated cleanly, we say it upfront.
Neither and both. Not a traditional BMS. Not just an apartment-level smart home. Fentrica sits above systems and vendors, unifying them into one operational layer.
Three levers: • Fewer tickets through resident self-service • Fewer site visits through remote resolution • Lower energy costs through continuous optimisation Clients typically see: • up to 85% reduction in operational effort • up to 25% lower energy costs Actual impact depends on building size and complexity.
Yes. Residential, commercial, parking, and common areas can all run in the same platform with role-based access.
Low. • modular rollout • no vendor lock-in • clear exit paths You are not committing to a black-box system that runs your building without visibility.
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