NOVI-INFRA presents Pavilion Cerebro
Every building needs a brain.
Pavilion Cerebro is a swarm of AI agents that watches a building's structure, wiring, power, water and air around the clock, and alerts us to problems before they turn into failures.
Scan · basement to roof
11 problem areas. 11 ways to fail.
Cerebro reads every system at once and finds what a yearly inspection would catch too late: a cracked column, a hot breaker, a leaking pipe, an overheating battery bank.
Swarm · 11 problem areas covered
One brain covers 11 problem areas.
The brain sends an agent to each problem area and ranks every problem by risk × consequence, so the battery bank gets fixed before the hairline crack.
- Agents are leaving the brain…
Verified · all clear
Building health: 98.
Every fix is checked, logged and costed. The agents merge back into one brain and keep watching, day and night.
The market sells tools for pieces of a building. There is no brain for the whole thing. NOVI-INFRA is building that brain.
The gap
Today each system is watched by a different tool, or by nobody.
| Tools on the market today | STR | ENV | ELEC | WIRE | HVAC | H2O | FIRE | LIFT | AIR | PWR | CYBER | Fuses all | Acts itself |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building automation (BMS)e.g. Metasys, Desigo, Niagara | |||||||||||||
| Autonomous HVAC AIe.g. BrainBox AI | |||||||||||||
| Structural sensorse.g. Sisgeo, Campbell Scientific | |||||||||||||
| Drone inspectione.g. Hammer Missions, Optelos | |||||||||||||
| Electrical monitoringe.g. Eaton Exertherm, Ting | |||||||||||||
| Leak detectionFlow meters, shutoff valves | |||||||||||||
| Elevator IoTe.g. KONE 24/7, Otis ONE | |||||||||||||
| Pavilion CerebroOne swarm, one coordinator |
of US commercial buildings run any building automation at all. Most small and mid-size buildings have none.
PNNL, SMB monitoring studyUS fires a year start with electrical faults: about 31,600 in homes and 7,400 in commercial buildings.
NFPA via FMFlorida condos of 3+ stories now need a structural milestone inspection at 30 years, then every 10.
Florida DBPRNFPA 70B (2023) requires every piece of electrical equipment to be inspected at least once a year.
TÜV SÜD on NFPA 70BI watch 11 problem areas. I decide what gets fixed first, and I check that it stays fixed.
How it works
Pavilion Cerebro is the brain.
Agents are the senses. The coordinator is the brain. Every agent speaks the same language, so adding a new building system means adding one more agent, not rebuilding the platform.
STR · PWR · HVAC
4 working agents (A0–A3) on public datasets, plus the coordinator and dashboard.H2O · ENV · ELEC · WIRE
Plumbing with a partner building, drone façade imagery, rain intrusion, switchgear and wiring.FIRE · LIFT · AIR · CYBER
Fire and sprinklers, elevators, indoor air, control-system security.- 1
Sense
Each agent watches one system: sensor feeds, BMS points, camera and drone images, inspection records.
- 2
Think
The coordinator fuses every report into one building risk picture and ranks it by risk × consequence × time.
- 3
Alert
Past a threshold it alerts the right person, with the fix it recommends, such as isolating a circuit or closing a valve.
- 4
Heal
It confirms the fix held, logs the cost and updates the building's health score.
For less than owners already spend on a few yearly checks, I watch all 11 problem areas every 10 minutes.
Price vs today
A typical building ends up $15,792 a year ahead.
At $599 a month, Cerebro costs less than the yearly checks it replaces, and covers everything the single-system tools do, plus the problem areas nobody watches today.
Reference building: 100,000 sq ft office, 7 floors, 2 elevators, building automation and cameras already installed. Midpoint US prices, one year.
- Checks replaced, +$7,500: midpoints of the yearly electrical thermal scan ($3,250), HVAC analytics software ($2,000) and air-quality test ($2,250). NFPA 70B (2026) accepts permanently installed temperature sensors for routine thermal inspection (Graceport).
- HVAC upkeep, +$2,250: 10% of a $22,500 service contract. Predictive maintenance saves 8–12% over scheduled maintenance (PNNL / DOE).
- Energy, +$13,230: 9% of $147,000 ($1.47 per sq ft, EIA). Fault-detection tools deliver 9% median savings (Berkeley Lab); our own figure comes from the pilot.
- Cerebro fee, −$7,188: $599 a month, software plan.
- Range: saves $2,727 a year in the cautious case (no analytics software today, low-end prices, half the energy saving) and $20,742 in the strong case. Every case now comes out ahead.
| Today | With Cerebro | |
|---|---|---|
| Problem areas watched | About 4, mostly once a year or less | 11, every 10 minutes |
| Cost to watch one problem area for one day | $1,500–$5,000 for one thermal scan | $1.79 |
| Vendors to cover everything | About 8, five of them quote-only | 1 |
| Yearly checks and service contracts | $25,650–$75,200 | $7,188 fee, less than the ~$7,500 of checks it replaces |
| Buildings with no automation | BMS at $250,000–$700,000 installed | Sensor kit included in the $1,400 plan |
More coverage than any single tool, for less
| What the owner buys | Problem areas | How often | Published price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thermal scan of electrical panels | 1 | 1 day a year | $1,500–$5,000 a year |
| HVAC analytics software | 1 | Continuous | $2,000 a year + $6,000 setup |
| Air-quality monitors, 7 floors (Kaiterra) | 1 | Continuous | $1,680 a year + $3,430 hardware |
| Building automation (BMS) | 2–4 (HVAC, energy, partly air and fire) | Continuous | $250,000–$700,000 installed + 10–20% a year |
| Pavilion Cerebro | 11 | Every 10 minutes | $7,188 a year ($599 a month) |
Cerebro watches what the single-system tools watch, plus the problem areas nobody covers today: in-wall wiring, leaks between inspections and the building network. It reads your BMS rather than replacing it, and legally required inspections still happen. Prices: contractor guides, Berkeley Lab medians, AirGradient's published Kaiterra pricing, NREL via FractionalBAS.
For buildings that already run building automation and cameras. Cerebro reads what is there.
69 wireless sensors, 2 gateways, an edge computer and installation included. Hardware worth $14,628 at retail prices.
Sources: EIA CBECS, Berkeley Lab, PNNL / DOE, NFPA 70B via Graceport and TÜV SÜD, NREL via FractionalBAS, contractor price guides. Full workings in our market analysis.
Owners already spend billions making buildings smarter. I give that spend one brain.
Market
A $47.6B market.
Tiers are stacked for reading, not drawn to scale.
Where the spend is, $ billions
If you own, run, insure or certify a building, I work for you.
Customers
Who pays for a building brain.
Real estate owners & REITs
Protect asset value and cut emergency repair spend across a whole portfolio.
Facility management firms
Run more sites with the same team. Every alert arrives ranked and explained.
Condo associations
Florida milestone inspections and reserve studies need condition and repair-cost data on a schedule.
Hospitals
Downtime, fire risk and water safety are patient-safety problems.
Data centers
Battery rooms and switchgear carry the fire risk, and NFPA 70B wants proof of maintenance.
Universities & campuses
Hundreds of aging buildings and one facilities team.
Public buildings
Schools, transit and civic buildings carrying deferred maintenance.
Insurers
Fewer claims. State Farm already gives customers electrical-fire sensors for free.