Audit & True-Up

When a BAS site is inherited, underperforming, poorly documented, or drifting away from supportable standards, DroMetrics helps bring clarity first. Audit and true-up work is designed to identify what is wrong, what is missing, what is creating avoidable risk, and what should happen next.

A practical starting point for messy BAS situations Not every site needs a full redesign or a major controls overhaul. Sometimes the first move is simply to understand the BAS reality: how the station is structured, where the standards broke down, what is creating noise, and what needs to be corrected to make the site easier to support and improve.
What it is

A BAS health check with direction

DroMetrics reviews the current BAS environment to identify deficiencies, supportability issues, standards gaps, and practical next steps instead of guessing or chasing symptoms blindly.

  • Niagara site audits and inherited-system reviews
  • Current-state BAS health checks
  • Deficiency identification and prioritization
What it helps prevent

More money spent on the wrong problem

Audit work helps reduce wasted effort by separating actual BAS issues from noise, bad assumptions, poor structure, missing standards, and vague project scope.

  • Misdiagnosed controls problems
  • Upgrade work built on a weak baseline
  • Ongoing turnover and support confusion
Best fit

Good for inherited, noisy, or inconsistent sites

This service is a strong fit for owners, portfolios, property managers, and contractors dealing with BAS sites that have become difficult to trust, support, or hand off cleanly.

  • Inherited stations with unclear structure
  • Projects headed toward upgrade or modernization
  • Sites with repeated BAS complaints or unclear deficiencies

What DroMetrics reviews

Station structure

How supportable is the BAS today?

  • Folder structure and station organization
  • Naming and tagging consistency
  • Navigation and graphics supportability
  • Documentation gaps and unknowns
Signals and governance

What is creating noise or weak visibility?

  • Alarm quality, nuisance alarms, and routing issues
  • Trend setup, KPI visibility, and reporting gaps
  • Override conditions and operational noise
  • Point hygiene, units, scaling, and labeling issues
Lifecycle readiness

Is the site ready for handoff, upgrade, or long-term support?

  • Backups, change tracking, and release-note discipline
  • User/role governance and basic platform hygiene
  • Supportability across teams, vendors, or future phases
  • Standards gaps that will create future friction

What “true-up” means

True-up work is the cleanup and standardization layer that turns a hard-to-support BAS site into one that is easier to understand, easier to hand off, and easier to build on.

Typical true-up work

  • Naming and tagging cleanup
  • Folder and station structure normalization
  • Alarm and trend baseline cleanup
  • Graphics cleanup for clearer navigation and consistency
  • Point hygiene and standards alignment
  • Exceptions list for what still needs deeper corrective work
Goal of the true-up Not cosmetic cleanup for its own sake. The goal is to make the BAS more supportable, reduce avoidable confusion, improve future project readiness, and strengthen the baseline before larger upgrades, commissioning work, or portfolio standardization efforts.

Typical deliverables

Findings

Clear picture of current BAS condition

  • Structured findings summary
  • Deficiency list by priority
  • Known gaps and unknowns log
Direction

Practical next-step roadmap

  • Recommended corrective actions
  • Suggested sequencing of work
  • Upgrade, cleanup, or standards priorities
Supportability

Better baseline for future work

  • Standards cleanup and normalization
  • Documentation and handoff improvements
  • Cleaner foundation for upgrades or commissioning

Good fit for

  • Newly acquired or inherited buildings
  • Sites with repeated comfort complaints and unclear BAS responsibility
  • Stations that grew organically and lost consistency over time
  • Projects preparing for a JACE, station, or Niagara upgrade
  • Portfolios trying to improve standards across multiple sites
  • Contractors who need a cleaner baseline before closeout or turnover
Common result The biggest value is usually clarity. Clients stop guessing, stop reacting to noise, and start working from a more honest picture of what the BAS site actually needs.

How engagements usually start

Step 1

Review the BAS situation

Start with the site condition, project context, current pain points, and whether the need is audit-only or audit plus cleanup.

Step 2

Define the first deliverable

That may be a findings report, deficiency list, standards review, true-up scope, or a roadmap for upgrade or corrective work.

Step 3

Decide the next phase

Once the BAS reality is clearer, DroMetrics can stay in an advisory role or support true-up, upgrades, commissioning, or execution work directly.

Need a BAS site reviewed? If the BAS feels messy, noisy, inherited, inconsistent, or not ready for the next phase, an audit and true-up engagement is often the cleanest place to start.