Bhairava
Bhairava Sense finds the controllers and sensors already at your site, lets anyone draw the site as a tree, confirms each sensor works, and then keeps watching. No engineer. No weeks of setup. No changes to your equipment.
BhairavaWorks with what you already haveBhairava Sense is an on-site extension of Bhairava Monitoring. It handles the complexities and functions of each site and feeds refined information to Bhairava.
One Sense for every kind of facility and fleet: offices, plants, vessels and vehicles.
Facility: a place that stays put. Fleet: something that moves.
No place matches.
Watches chillers, air handlers, boilers, lighting and room controls.
Watches lighting, blinds, room comfort and power.
Watches pumps, motors, drives, generator panels and energy meters.
Watches furnaces, presses, conveyors, robot cells, machine tools and compressors.
Watches clean rooms, filling and bottling lines, packaging machines, assembly stations and utilities.
Watches crushers, conveyors, pumps and ventilation on site, and the position and movement of haul trucks and excavators.
Watches inverters, meters and generators.
Watches temperature, air quality and occupancy sensors.
Watches UPS units, cooling and rack power.
Watches position, speed, engine and tank readings.
Watches position, speed and cargo temperature.
BMS: Building Management System · FMS: Facility Management System
| What is compared | BMS | FMS | Bhairava Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covers | BMSOne facility’s equipment | FMSThe facility’s work and assets | Bhairava SenseBoth, in one place |
| Where it fits | BMSOne large facility | FMSFacilities a team looks after | Bhairava SenseAny facility or fleet: large, small or spread out |
| Setting it up | BMSSpecialist engineers, over weeks | FMSStaff enter assets and data | Bhairava SenseSearch, find and attach the equipment on site |
| Who reads it | BMSTrained engineers | FMSFacility managers | Bhairava SenseAnyone: plain screens, 20 languages |
| Equipment it hears | BMSMostly its own vendor’s | FMSWhat’s typed in or connected | Bhairava SenseMany makers and kinds, from offices to vessels |
| Things that move | BMSNo | FMSRarely | Bhairava SenseYes: ships, trucks, vans |
One Sense instead of two systems: your facility’s equipment and its work, together.
Bhairava Sense carries onA facility or building management system (FMS, BMS) is the right tool for one large facility. Many of the places people need to watch are neither large nor part of one facility. That is where Bhairava Sense begins.
An FMS, BMS comes from a third party and is set up by specialist engineers over weeks, sensor by sensor. Its screens are engineering drawings that need a trained eye.
For one large facility, that cost makes sense. The facility is in one place, and there are engineers to look after it.
A small facility cannot justify an FMS, BMS. Nor can the workshops and small units spread across many places: machines in cottage industries working in separate houses, shops, cold rooms, vehicles.
Each is too small for an FMS, BMS, and together they are in too many places for one. Today many of them are simply not watched.
Bhairava Sense: every workshop on one screen
Bhairava Sense does insteadA laptop at each place, and soon a phone, run by an ordinary person. It finds what is there by itself, and the person draws the place as a tree in an afternoon.
Every place, however many and however far apart, reports to one Bhairava Dashboard.
This is an example, not a customer story. Say a business has small CNC lathes run as a cottage industry: a dozen machines, one or two to a house, in nine houses across one town.
Nobody knows which lathe is running and which has stopped until someone visits or phones.
A facility or building management system for a single lathe in a house cannot be justified.
The person there opens Bhairava Sense on the laptop they already have and presses Discover. The lathe’s controller appears.
They name it, place it on the tree (Workshop, then Machine) and add a photo.
The owner opens one Bhairava Dashboard and sees every workshop: green where the machines report, red where one has stopped, with the place and the photo of exactly which lathe.
What changed: the owner no longer drives round or phones to find out. A stopped lathe shows up red, with the house and the photo that say where to go.
BhairavaAn FMS, BMS means software licences, specialist engineering to set it up, and often its own hardware. Bhairava Sense comes with Bhairava at no extra charge, and runs on the laptop you already have, and soon your phone, set up by your own person.
An FMS, BMS usually ties the facility to one maker’s system, and to that maker’s engineers for every change. Bhairava Sense works with equipment from different makers side by side, and the tree, names and photos you build are yours.
With an FMS, BMS, a moved room, a replaced controller or a new sensor is often a call-out to a specialist. With Bhairava Sense your own person makes the change on the tree, and the “Go to” directions with photos tell anyone where to look.
It runs on the devices you already own: a Windows laptop today, and soon your phone. It works with the controllers and sensors already installed, from different makers side by side, with nothing to replace or rewire.
| What is compared | A facility or building management system | Bhairava Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | A facility or building management systemOne large facility. | Bhairava SenseSmall facilities, and many small places spread far apart. |
| Who sets it up | A facility or building management systemSpecialist engineers, usually from a third party. | Bhairava SenseAn ordinary person who knows the place. |
| How long it takes | A facility or building management systemWeeks, sensor by sensor. | Bhairava SenseIt finds what is there by itself, and drawing the place takes an afternoon. |
| What the screen looks like | A facility or building management systemEngineering drawings that need a trained eye. | Bhairava SenseA simple tree: green where things report, red where something has stopped. |
| Many scattered places | A facility or building management systemNot what it is made for. | Bhairava SenseEvery place reports to one Bhairava Dashboard, however many and however far apart. |
| Cost | A facility or building management systemSoftware licences, specialist engineering to set it up, and often its own hardware. | Bhairava SenseFree with Bhairava. A laptop you already have; phone app coming. |
| Cost makes sense for | A facility or building management systemA large facility. | Bhairava SenseA single small place, and just as well for many of them. |
| Vendor lock-in | A facility or building management systemUsually one maker’s system, and that maker’s engineers for every change. | Bhairava SenseEquipment from different makers side by side. The tree, names and photos are yours. |
| When something changes | A facility or building management systemA call-out to a specialist for a moved room, a replaced controller or a new sensor. | Bhairava SenseYour own person changes the tree. “Go to” directions with photos tell anyone where to look. |
| Devices and equipment | A facility or building management systemIts own workstation, and usually its own maker’s controllers. | Bhairava SenseThe laptop you have (phone app coming), and the equipment you already have. |
| Effect on your equipment | A facility or building management systemBuilt to supervise, and often to control, the equipment. | Bhairava SenseNone. It only asks and reads, and changes nothing. |
Where a large facility already has an FMS, BMS, Bhairava Sense can sit alongside it. It only asks and reads, and changes nothing. Big facility or small, one place or many, it all arrives on one dashboard.
Bhairava Sense works in three stages, and you can follow each one in the knowledge base. Everything it senses ends up on the Bhairava Dashboard.
Bhairava Sense looks across the site network and finds the controllers and sensors that are already there, without anyone typing in a list.
What was found is joined with what only people know: the place, the name and photos. The same tree then becomes the live board.
What is Sensor Fusion → Stage 3Once the tree is drawn, everything it senses is carried onward, live: every reading, every change, every alarm reaches your central Bhairava dashboard, so one screen can watch many sites.
Bhairava DashboardWhere it all arrives: every site you run, on one screen, live.
SeeBhairava →
Bhairava Sense discovers the controllers and sensors already on the site, by itself.
You draw the site as a tree: add branches such as floors and rooms, and name them.
Drag what was found onto the branches, and confirm that each sensor is working.
The same tree becomes the live board, and Bhairava Sense keeps watching.
There is no second screen to learn. The tree you drew is the board you watch. A green line is a sensor that is reporting. A red line is a sensor that has stopped.
The place, the name and the photos you added tell you exactly where to go.
Plain screens that an ordinary person can read at a glance.
The same screen in English, German and Arabic (read right to left).
Bhairava Sense only asks and reads.Know about a stopped sensor on any floor, and exactly which room to walk to.
Keep an eye on the controllers and sensors across a workshop floor, without touching them.
Describe each vehicle as part of your tree and see at a glance what has gone quiet.
Bhairava Sense feeds the central Bhairava dashboard, so every site you look after can be seen together in one place.
BhairavaBhairava SentinelFor trucks, buses, ambulances and ships, Bhairava Sentinel runs on the driver's phone, on its own. No laptop, and no Sense needed.
Sign in with the vehicle's key. Position, fuel and stock use, SOS and breakdowns go straight to Bhairava, and the current trip is right there on the phone.
Bhairava Sense stays the laptop app for places: facilities, workshops and sites.
Android app, version 0.8.2. The web app works on any phone.
Download the installer, practise on the simulator, and read how it all works.
The installer for Windows 10.
GetBhairava Sense →Bhairava Sense SimulatorPractise without real equipment.
Open the simulator →Guides that explain how it all works.
Read the knowledge base →The kinds of controllers and sensors Bhairava Sense works with, and what is coming.
Bhairava Sense is free with Bhairava.
Bhairava →A phone version is not available yet.
