Zan Compute

The Opportunity: Smarter Cleaning for Smarter Buildings

Facility managers face constant pressure to keep properties clean, safe, and welcoming while also optimizing labor costs and supply use. Traditional custodial schedules often rely on fixed routines rather than real-time needs, which can waste resources and overlook high-traffic areas.

Zan Compute recognized an opportunity to transform this process. By combining IoT sensors with AI, they deliver real-time insight into facility conditions, ensuring cleaning crews know exactly when and where their attention is needed.

“Occupants benefit because they get a much better experience in the property,” says Zan Compute CEO, Sridharan Mani.

“Soracom gives us complete control over the wireless connection between our sensors and our AI backend, with the flexibility to scale when and where we need it.”

Sridharan Mani

CEO

Zan Compute

The Solution: AI-Powered Custodial Intelligence

Zan Compute deploys a network of smart sensors that continuously monitor building usage and conditions. These sensors feed data into a powerful AI backend that predicts cleaning needs, optimizes labor schedules, and reduces waste in supplies.

But this intelligence depends on reliable, secure connectivity. Wi-Fi onboarding often poses problems with reliability, security, and IT oversight. To solve this, Zan Compute’s sensors connect to gateways that transmit data over cellular networks, powered by Soracom.

Soracom’s IoT platform provides:

• Data Ubiquity: Sensors bypass local Wi-Fi and connect directly to the cloud, minimizing customer effort and risk.
• Network Integrity: With Soracom Peek, Zan Compute can capture and analyze packet-level data to quickly troubleshoot network behavior.
• Expansion Potential: Soracom’s scalable platform ensures Zan Compute can grow operations globally, on demand.

Why Soracom: Control, Reliability, and Scalability

Beyond affordable IoT connectivity, Soracom delivers the management tools Zan Compute needs to operate globally at scale. The built-in console and APIs give the team full visibility across devices, while advanced services like Soracom Peek add new diagnostic capabilities without additional infrastructure.

For Zan Compute, this combination means less time managing connectivity and more time improving their AI-powered platform.

The Outcome: Cleaner, Safer, and More Efficient Facilities

Today, Zan Compute helps facility managers optimize labor, reduce supply costs, and improve building hygiene—at a time when health and safety have never been more important.

“We believe that, post-COVID, demand for our solution is going to grow multi-fold,” says Sridharan. “We see significant growth potential in the coming year.”
From office buildings to public spaces, Zan Compute is leading the way toward smarter, safer, and more sustainable custodial operations. For property owners, that means lower costs and improved outcomes. For everyone else, it simply means a world that’s a little bit cleaner.