Built environment platforms tell you about the static building. Signals tells you about how people actually use it. Verified tenant traffic, common area dwell, lobby and amenity occupancy, energy optimization, all captured continuously, queryable in seconds, ready for the lease conversation.
Commercial real estate is a channel play. CRE operators are active buyers of operational intelligence: tenant performance data, verified foot traffic for lease negotiation, energy utilization for sustainability commitments. Privacy in CRE common areas is the cleanest of the four verticals, since aggregate corridor analytics are unambiguously permissible. The direct sales cycle is long. The channel via BIMstream and Cresa is shorter and the joint narrative stronger.
"Which corridors and amenity spaces in the tower had the highest occupancy over the past 30 days, and what was the dwell pattern?"
"What does the verified traffic data look like for the storefront on the ground floor. I have a tenant negotiating renewal."
Tenant performance conversations have historically run on tenant-reported data and the operator's best estimate. Signals provides verified storefront traffic, dwell, and engagement data · captured continuously, comparable across the portfolio. Converts lease negotiations from a debate over estimates to a conversation about verified behavioral patterns.
Renewal economicsWhich amenities are actually used? Which corridors carry traffic? Which lounges sit empty? The capital decisions on amenity programming run on assumption rather than data. Signals replaces that with twelve months of verified zone-level utilization across the portfolio.
Capital deployment precisionOperators with published sustainability commitments need to demonstrate progress. Occupancy-driven BMS integration means HVAC and lighting respond to actual use, not fixed schedules. Empty floors overnight scheduled accordingly. Evening or weekend tenant activity managed differently. Typical 12-18% reduction in common area energy use.
12-18% reduction in common area energy useContinuous monitoring of common areas, lobbies, and restricted zones. After-hours access flagged automatically. Tailgating through secure entries detected. Post-incident review takes minutes, not days of footage scrubbing.
Risk and liabilityEvery Signals deployment ships with a real-time operational dashboard configured for the CRE environment. Browser-based, device-agnostic, no specialist required. The natural language query bar runs across every view.
Bird's-eye view across all properties. Traffic, occupancy, alerts, energy status. Primary view for portfolio operations.
Per-property building map with floor-level occupancy, corridor traffic, amenity dwell. Used by property managers.
Shareable dashboard showing tenant storefront and amenity traffic. White-labeled to property brand for tenant access.
Verified traffic and dwell data for ground-floor and corridor-facing units. Used in lease negotiation conversations.
Dwell and engagement analytics by amenity. Lounges, cafes, fitness, conference. Capital planning data.
Real-time alerts across the portfolio. Each alert links to footage.
CRE deployments typically run Hybrid. Edge handles real-time alerting and the privacy-sensitive processing in tenant-facing common areas. Cloud powers indexed search, portfolio-level analytics, and the tenant-facing reports. Multi-property portfolios run a multi-tenant cloud architecture above per-building edge nodes.
All inference on-site. No footage leaves the building. Fully offline-capable. Qualcomm-powered hardware.
Single-site operators and regulated environments.
Edge for real-time alerting and privacy-sensitive processing. Cloud for indexed search, cross-site analytics, and trend reporting.
Most common enterprise configuration for CRE.
Camera streams route to managed cloud. Full platform access. Best for multi-site portfolios.
Multi-site chains and portfolios where central visibility takes priority.
| Built environment | BIMstream / Cirqua (joint narrative · static building model plus live behavioral layer) |
| BMS / Energy | Siemens · Honeywell · Johnson Controls · Schneider EcoStruxure |
| Access control | Lenel (UTC) · Genetec · Brivo · HID |
| VMS / Security | Genetec · Milestone · Hanwha · Axis |
| Sustainability | JLL Karbon · CBRE Sustainability platforms (data feed) |
| Tenant engagement | Tenant app platforms · property comms tools (occupancy feeds) |
| Brokers & advisors | Cresa · Cherry Bekaert · CBRE · JLL · Cushman & Wakefield (channel) |
BIMstream knows the building. Signals knows what happens inside it. The joint narrative · static asset data plus live behavioral data · is the differentiator both companies need.
Single property, three defined zones, 90 days. Pilot fee $10,000-$18,000 depending on property scale. Credited against Year 1 on conversion. Hybrid deployment standard.