One platform for every building.
Traditional building software was designed to solve a problem inside a single building. Novant was designed to make every building part of one connected software environment.
Buildings have been connected one at a time for decades.
Every new application brings its own integration, its own server, its own users, and its own idea of what a point means – at every building. The first site is a project. The fiftieth is fifty projects, each maintained on its own.
That cost rarely shows up as a line item. It shows up as integrations rebuilt for each new tool, access managed site by site, and data that can't be compared across the portfolio because every building describes itself differently.
The real question isn't what a connector costs. It's why every building needs its own software stack at all.
Two ways to connect a portfolio.
Traditional solutions scale by replicating software. Novant scales by connecting buildings to a single common platform.
Site by site
A separate stack at every building. Separate integrations, logins, and updates – multiplied by every site you add.
With Novant
Every site connects outbound to one shared platform. Add a building and it joins the same model, access, and API.
Built for portfolios, not buildings.
Other approaches multiply with every site. Novant doesn’t.
| Going from 1 to 100 buildings | Novant | Application platforms | Traditional BMS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software to deploy | One shared platform | A new install at every building | A new system at every building |
| Building connections | Once per building | Rebuilt for every app, at every site | Locked to one vendor’s controls |
| Data model | One, portfolio-wide | Re-tagged and remapped for every app | ✕Cryptic point names |
| Integrating your apps | One API | A custom project per deployment | ✕Rarely an open API |
| Users & access | One place | Accounts managed in every app | ✕Separate logins per site |
| Adding building #101 | Just connect it | Start the whole process over | ✕Another silo to manage |
Four consequences of one decision.
Connected, scalable, secure, and trusted aren't four separate features. They follow from putting every building on the same platform.
Connected
Every building, system, and point reaches the same foundation – across BACnet, Modbus, Niagara, and more – and is described in the same model. The site you add next year looks like the sites you added last year.
Scalable
The hundredth building runs on the same platform as the first. Adding a site means connecting an edge node, not standing up and maintaining another server, database, and application.
Secure
Edge nodes connect outbound only. No inbound firewall ports and no VPNs into the building network. Users and access are managed in one place, not re-created at every site.
Trusted
Building data and control deserve more than unrestricted access. Novant provides a consistent foundation for managing who can access your buildings, what they can see, and what they can change.
Built for the software that runs on buildings.
An AI application shouldn't need to learn the networks, credentials, and proprietary interfaces of five hundred buildings. Neither should an analytics platform, a dashboard, or an in-house tool. With Novant, they work with a single platform: one model, one API, and one set of permissions – the same for every building in the portfolio. Build once, and it works everywhere Novant is connected.
Own the data.
Not the infrastructure.
Scale is half the story. The other half is who owns the foundation. Novant is independent of your controls vendor, your analytics vendor, and your AI platform – so any of them can change without rebuilding what's underneath.