Choosing the right dashboard type
Selecting the right dashboard type is critical for ensuring that each user — whether a Facility Manager, Technician, Supervisor, or Account Manager — has easy access to the insights they need, whether across an entire organization, city, building, or specific floor.
This guide explains the different dashboard types available and matches them to typical user roles, helping optimize operational monitoring and decision-making.
Dashboard Types Overview by roles
Category | Dashboard Type | Description | Recommended For |
Centralised Dashboard | With location filter
| Widgets combined for all floors and buildings, of which data can be seen at granular level by filtering | Facility Managers, Account Managers |
Without location filter | Widgets for overall organization without filters. | Senior Facility Management, Account Managers, Executives |
Site Specific Dashboard | Floor Dashboard | Focused on a single selected floor. | Technicians, Floor Operators |
Building Dashboard | Focused on a single selected building | Facility Managers, Building Supervisors |
City Dashboard | Focused on all buildings within a selected city | City Managers, Regional Heads |
Comparison Dashboard
| Floor Wise Dashboard | Widgets duplicated and broken down floor by floor. | Supervisors, Facility Managers |
Building Wise Dashboard | Widgets duplicated and broken down building by building. | Regional Managers, Account Managers |
Dashboard Types Overview by applications
Category | Dashboard Type | Typical BMS Setup | Devices/Systems Best Suited |
Centralised Dashboard | With location filter | Multiple Buildings with multiple Floors and mixed device types | - Energy Meters - HVAC Controllers - Occupancy Sensors - Lighting Systems |
Without location filter | Organization-wide view combining all setups, no filters applied | - Aggregate Data across all systems: Energy, Space, Asset, Maintenance, Alarm Monitoring |
Site Specific Dashboard | Floor Specific Dashboard | High-priority floors like Data Centers, Conference Halls, or Executive Floors | - Floor-specific UPS - Fire Alarm Systems - Precision Cooling Units - Smart Meters only for that floor |
Building Specific Dashboard | Multiple important buildings selected manually for targeted monitoring | - Energy Meters - Critical HVAC - Building device health |
City specific Dashboard | Real estate portfolio or multiple sites within a city | - Common Alerting Systems - Central HVAC Monitoring - Energy comparison |
Comparison Dashboard
| Floor Wise Dashboard | A single building with multiple operational floors needing separate monitoring | - Floor wise VAV summary - Occupancy Sensors - Floor-level Energy Meters |
Building Wise Dashboard | A multi-building campus or portfolio needing building wise comparison | - Energy summary (EUI) - Building-specific HVAC Systems - Building-level Alarm Systems |
Key Notes:
Facility Managers/ Supervisors handling one facility operations should opt for building specific or floor wise dashboards
Account Managers managing energy and occupancy across many sites should prefer a centralized dashboard with filters.
Technicians handling floor-level repairs or troubleshooting alarms should use Floor Specific Dashboards.
Regional Managers handling multiple cities or campuses should use City Wise or Building Wise Dashboards.
Executives looking at overall efficiency should view data via the centralized dashboard without filters.
Use case summary
Use Case | Recommended Dashboard |
Monitor multiple device types across floors and buildings | Centralised with location |
Analyze operational health floor by floor | Floor Wise |
Track separate building performances | Building Wise |
Deep dive into one critical floor | Floor Specific |
Track selected important building KPI | Building Specific |
City or regional management | City specific |
High-level enterprise view | Centralised without location |
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