For decades, the building technology industry has been holding your data hostage, making it impossible to make meaningful decisions from the data you already own.
At the end of the day, the truth is, systems were designed by engineers for engineers, packed with complex interfaces, jargon and an alphabetti spaghetti of acronyms which only a few knew how to unlock, and it would be an expensive exercise to do so.
Historically, and sometimes even today, if you don’t speak the secret language of the system developers or remember multiple logins to work out what’s happening across the various systems you’re using, you’ll be out of the loop - making building systems and their data more broken than smart.
Buildings should serve the people in and around them
And that starts with democratising data. Because when everyone can access and understand what’s going on inside their building, everyone can contribute to making it better. That means sharing knowledge, removing blocks, gatekeepers, and using open-source tools that connect us and make us part of a conversation together.
Smart buildings tell their own story
We believe that the only way we’ll create better buildings is through open code, open data and open minds. Yes, we advocate for open source, and we actively contribute to the community. By making parts of our codebase available, we empower developers, integrators, and building operators to solve problems faster, customise and configure what they need and build better solutions with like minds.
Built it, break it, improve it and make it your own.
Our commitment is simple. If we can make it easier for the community to access, understand, and act on building data to make buildings globally able to share their story, we do it. And that’s because, when everyone has access, the community can level up and we all get the opportunity to make buildings and people smarter as a result.
Building a community
By tackling open source the way we do, our community feedback has been extraordinary with people citing how “happy they are”, “love our work”, that Bitpool is a “thing of beauty” and the “dogs bol***ks”. As a team and as a business, we’ve shared 29,000 instances of our open-source code in the community, currently averaging 550 downloads a week.
This is what happens when people come together to make a difference.
Buildings that share their story help you to run them better
Buildings are more than assets, they’re ecosystems full of people who run them, manage them, clean them, secure them and keep them happy and healthy for the people who reside in, own and operate them.
Smart buildings when they’re done right enable everyone to win – from owners and investors to the people running them, and the technology pioneers enabling them.
By democratising data, everyone gets a seat at the table.
We’re the proof that the democracy sausage reigns supreme in PropTech. By building technology with transparency, making building information accessible to everyone and putting tools in the hands of those ready to drive change with us across the community, we all win.
Welcome to Bitpool.
