Full visibility of your estate.
No
compromise on security.
Every case study below is a system dbr connects to without ever connecting back — building controls, gas detection, lifts, occupancy sensors, industrial equipment. See the problem, the approach, and the outcome for each. Same principle throughout: your infrastructure stays exactly as it is, you just get to see it.
Real deployments, one architecture. Different assets, different sectors, same one-way, hardware-enforced connection underneath every one of them. Download the full write-up for any project below.
Building Management System
Centralised oversight, without exposing the BMS.
An air-gapped, one-way architecture gives multi-site operators live BMS visibility and centralised control — without ever putting the underlying network at risk of external access. Deployed at Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
“This new system means we can diagnose issues faster and improve our business continuity. We are always looking for ways to deliver a more proactive approach to running our buildings and providing value for money for our residents in all that we do.”
— Michael Button, Hard Services Manager, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Crowcon Gas Monitoring — Docklands Light Railway
Live gas monitoring across a live rail network.
Crowcon methane and hydrogen sulphide monitors previously reported only when an alarm threshold was breached — getting a current reading meant sending an engineer to a restricted, remote location. dbr now streams live gas concentration, alarm status, and system health straight to one dashboard, over a connection that runs one way only.
“A major step forward in how critical gas monitoring infrastructure can be safely and securely managed in real time.”
— Martin Coppen, Engineering and Projects Director, KeolisAmey Docklands
Meeting Room Occupancy — 3rd Party Sensor Shield
Third-party sensors, without third-party network access.
An international legal firm needed real-time occupancy data from sensors that reported straight to the manufacturer’s own servers — connectivity its IT security policy didn’t allow. dbr’s Olympus module, deployed with partner Technik IMS, created a physical shield between the sensors and the client’s private network, delivering the data without the risk.
“This project needed a solution that respected the client’s IT security policy without compromising on the data they needed. Working with dbr gave us exactly that — a way to bring third-party sensor data in without a single device touching the client’s network.”
— Amar Mackay, COO, Technik IMS
Switch Room Environment Monitoring
Live temperature and humidity, from underground.
Underground and tunnel switch rooms on the London train network had no ventilation and no reliable way to flag rising temperatures before equipment shut down. Long-range radio and one-way data transfer now give continuous visibility, with no CAT5/6 rewiring required.
Download the case studyRemote Access
Temporary, encrypted access — without permanent exposure.
Time-limited, encrypted tunnels to network-enabled industrial devices, with SSL/TLS and randomised URLs layered on top, mean teams get the access they need without leaving systems permanently exposed to the public internet.
Download the case studyEmployee Check-In Kiosk
Fit-to-work confirmation, logged automatically.
Network Rail, TfL, and ORR all set strict drink, drug, and fatigue-management requirements for safety-critical roles — historically tracked on paper across remote sites. dbr’s kiosk captures sign-in, sign-out, and fitness-to-work declarations directly, with evidence-based logs ready for audit.
Download the case studyLift Monitoring
Pre-empting failure, meeting the CAA and TfL thresholds.
Airport and transport-network operators face fines for missing lift availability targets, but ageing, mixed-age lift estates make failure points hard to track. Live feed from the lift controller, analysed against each lift’s normal running signature, flags developing faults before they cause downtime.
Download the case studyHydraulic Lift Monitoring
Visibility the lift controller alone doesn’t give you.
Standard lift monitoring stops at the controller, leaving the hydraulic unit and oil tank — a common failure point — unmonitored. Pressure and temperature sensors on the hydraulic tank and valve assembly close that gap, giving live readings and historical trends without touching how the lift runs.
Download the case studyEscalator Monitoring
Protecting availability on ‘gold status’ station days.
London Underground stations designated ‘gold status’ during major public events need escalator failure points identified and mitigated in advance. Direct feed from the escalator controller, checked against its normal running signature, flags developing issues before they take a unit out of service.
Download the case studyFull visibility of your estate. No compromise on security.
Every project above runs on the same one-way, hardware-enforced connection. If you’re not sure whether it fits what you’re running, that’s exactly what a briefing is for.