/ Whitepapers · checklists · templates · packs
The library,
deepened over time.
Long-form documents, planning checklists and procurement packs the practice publishes for architects, consultants, facilities teams and clients who want depth past the website. Available on request — we respond within one working day.
/ A working library
Documents written for the desks they will sit on.
The pieces below were not written as marketing collateral. They began as internal references — the documents an engineer reaches for when an architect calls about NBC compliance, when a facilities lead is benchmarking a BMS, when an owner is reading a BOQ for the third time and trying to understand what was actually being quoted. We have polished and made them available because the same questions come from the outside as from within.
Every item is supplied on request rather than as an anonymous download — what you receive is the version we ourselves use this quarter, not a static PDF from a launch. Request any item by email with the title in the subject line, or send your project brief and we will pick the right ones for the stage you are at.
/ The working library · 8 documents
Whitepaper · 18 pages
Smart Home Architecture — Rako vs Fibaro vs KNX
Platform-selection logic for premium residential automation. When each platform is decisively right, when each is wrong, and the protocol-fit matrix that drives the recommendation.
- For —
- Owners, architects and interior designers planning premium residential automation.
- Helps decide —
- Which automation platform fits the project — and when each is decisively wrong.
Technical guide · 22 pages
Acoustic Design for Premium Boardrooms & Auditoria
RT60 targets, STI compliance, absorber-layout principles, EASE modelling notes. With illustrative case studies from civic auditoria and corporate boardrooms.
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- Architects, PMC teams and owners of boardrooms, auditoria and performance spaces.
- Helps decide —
- RT60 and STI targets, absorber strategy and where acoustic modelling is genuinely needed.
Reference guide · 32 pages
ELV Compliance Under NBC 2016 — A Practitioner's Reading
Mandatory life-safety and ELV systems by occupancy class and building height, with the relevant IS-code citations. The document we hand architects at the design-coordination stage.
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- Architects and consultants coordinating life-safety and ELV scope.
- Helps decide —
- Which life-safety and ELV systems are mandatory by occupancy class and building height.
Whitepaper · 14 pages
BMS Energy Benchmarking — Eastern India Commercial Tower Sample
Anonymised energy data across BMS-driven and unautomated commercial towers. Documented energy-saving ranges for HVAC optimisation, daylight harvesting, peak-shave and tariff arbitrage.
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- Facilities heads and owners benchmarking building-management performance.
- Helps decide —
- What a BMS retrofit can realistically change in a commercial tower's energy profile.
Operations guide · 12 pages
AMC Operational Discipline — Documentation, Response Targets and the Spares Pool
What a serious AMC programme actually contains. Quarterly check schedules, response-target structure, baseline-storage protocols, spares-pool sizing, and the documentation pack we hand to facilities teams.
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- Facilities teams and owners evaluating or running a maintenance programme.
- Helps decide —
- What a serious AMC programme actually contains and how to hold it accountable.
Procurement guide · 8 pages
International Procurement & Customs — A Practical Note
How we manage IEC-driven import procurement of premium fixtures for our Indian projects — documentation, customs liaison, last-mile freight, lead-time planning.
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- Owners and procurement teams importing premium fixtures for Indian projects.
- Helps decide —
- How IEC-driven import procurement, customs liaison and lead-time planning are run.
Sector guide
Technology Planning for Builders & Developers
The per-unit versus common-infrastructure split — intercom and VDP, common-area CCTV, fire coordination, network risers and automation-ready wiring — with a phase-by-tower rollout sequence and the handover to the society or FM team.
- For —
- Developers and builders provisioning technology across apartments and towers.
- Helps decide —
- What to provision per flat versus per building, and what that decides at sale time.
Reference document
Brand Ecosystem Overview
The brand ecosystems the practice works with, specifies, supplies, installs or integrates — organised by discipline — and the selection method (fit, support footprint, protocol openness) applied per project. Listing a brand describes engineering familiarity, never a commercial relationship.
- For —
- Buyers, consultants and procurement teams reviewing the practice's brand landscape.
- Helps decide —
- Which brand ecosystems the practice works with per discipline, and how brand selection is decided.
/ Planning checklists · 19 documents
Coordination checklist
Architect ELV Coordination Checklist
The provisions an architect should freeze at design stage — conduit and containment routes, riser allocations, rack-room positions, ceiling-void clearances and the hand-off points between disciplines.
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- Architects coordinating ELV, fire, security and AV scope on new builds.
- Helps decide —
- Which containment, riser, power and clearance provisions to lock before the slab is cast.
Coordination checklist
Fire / ELV Coordination Checklist
Detection zoning, voice-evac coverage, hydrant and sprinkler interfaces, cause-and-effect matrix sign-off and the inspection milestones that keep a fire NOC on schedule.
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- Project teams sequencing fire-alarm, PA voice-evac, hydrant and ELV interfaces.
- Helps decide —
- The cause-and-effect interfaces and inspection milestones to schedule before handover.
Planning checklist
Building Technology Planning Checklist
A discipline-by-discipline walk through the building technology stack — fire, security, AV, networking, BMS, power continuity — with the design-stage questions each one must answer.
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- Owners and PMCs scoping the full technology stack of a new building.
- Helps decide —
- Which systems belong in the project and in what sequence they should be designed.
Planning checklist
Home Automation Planning Checklist
Room-by-room scoping prompts — lighting circuits, scene logic, blinds, climate, audio zones and the network backbone — written for the stage when the electrical drawings are still editable.
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- Homeowners and interior designers planning automation for a residence.
- Helps decide —
- Which rooms, circuits and scenes to bring into scope before wiring closes.
Planning checklist
Conference Room AV Planning Checklist
The room-by-room questions that decide a conference space — display size against viewing distance, microphone and speaker coverage, codec and platform fit, lighting and acoustic finishes.
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- IT and admin teams specifying boardrooms and meeting rooms.
- Helps decide —
- Display sizing, microphone coverage, codec choice and cabling provisions per room type.
Planning checklist
BMS Readiness Checklist
Plant inventory, points-list discipline, protocol audit (BACnet / Modbus), panel readiness and the operational questions that decide whether a BMS will actually be used after handover.
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- Facilities heads and MEP consultants assessing a building for BMS scope.
- Helps decide —
- Whether the plant, points and protocols are ready for supervisory control.
Sector checklist
Hotel Technology Planning Checklist
Guest-room technology, hotel TVs and casting, Wi-Fi and PMS integration, CCTV and access control, PA and background music, signage — sequenced by property archetype.
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- Hotel owners, operators and project teams planning a property's technology stack.
- Helps decide —
- Which guest-facing and back-of-house systems each property tier genuinely needs.
Sector checklist
School / Smart Classroom Technology Checklist
Panel sizing against room depth, classroom acoustics, network and power provisioning per room, digital-library and PA integration, and a phased rollout plan that survives the academic calendar.
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- School managements and administrators planning interactive classrooms.
- Helps decide —
- Interactive panel sizing, classroom networking and the rollout sequence across blocks.
Sector checklist
Healthcare ELV Planning Checklist
Fire detection and voice evacuation for clinical occupancies, CCTV and access zoning, structured cabling for clinical networks, PA and the coordination points with medical-gas and BMS scope.
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- Hospital project teams and consultants planning ELV scope for clinical buildings.
- Helps decide —
- Which ELV systems clinical areas need and the standards each must meet.
Planning reference
CCTV Storage & Bandwidth Ready Reckoner
Resolution, frame-rate, codec and retention worked through to storage and bandwidth figures — the printed companion to the interactive storage calculator, for site meetings without a laptop.
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- Security teams and IT heads sizing surveillance recording and networks.
- Helps decide —
- Retention-driven storage sizing and the network headroom a camera plan needs.
Planning sheet
UPS / BESS Load Planning Sheet
A load-schedule template that separates life-safety, IT-critical, comfort and deferrable loads, with runtime classes and the questions that decide between online UPS and BESS-based systems.
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- Electrical consultants and facilities teams sizing power continuity.
- Helps decide —
- Which loads belong on UPS or BESS backup and the runtime each class needs.
Coordination checklist
ELV Drawing Requirement Checklist
The drawing types, containment and riser information, equipment-room requirements, ceiling-void data and power interfaces an ELV / AV set must carry — the companion document to the drawing / BOQ readiness tool.
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- Architects and consultants preparing drawing sets for ELV / AV scope.
- Helps decide —
- What a drawing set must contain before an integrator can engineer or estimate from it.
Planning checklist
Home Theatre Planning Checklist
Room selection and dimension pitfalls, acoustic treatment and isolation intent, screen and seating geometry, speaker layout classes, power and network provisions — sequenced by the construction stage where each decision freezes.
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- Homeowners and designers planning a private cinema or media room.
- Helps decide —
- Room, acoustic, sightline and equipment-class decisions — and the build stage where each one locks.
Sector checklist
Hotel Pre-Opening Technology Checklist
The technology gate before opening — integration tests and coverage verification, room-by-room guest checks, staff training, credential handover and the documentation pack — staged from T-90 through opening week across fire / PA, CCTV, network, TV, AV and BMS.
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- Hotel owners, operators and project teams in the final 90 days before opening.
- Helps decide —
- What must be tested, witnessed, documented and trained on before a property opens.
Planning checklist
CCTV Planning Checklist
Planning prompts for a surveillance scope — coverage objectives by area class, camera and resolution selection, recording and retention policy, network and PoE provisioning, and the operations model — written security-safe, in principles rather than layouts.
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- Owners, facility teams and IT heads scoping a surveillance system.
- Helps decide —
- Coverage intent, camera classes, recording policy and the network a camera plan needs.
Planning checklist
Access Control Planning Checklist
Door and zone classification, credential strategy, door-hardware interfaces, fail-safe / fail-secure logic against the fire strategy, visitor and lift integration, and the commissioning checks — vendor-neutral and security-safe throughout.
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- Facility and security teams scoping access control for a building.
- Helps decide —
- Door classification, credential strategy and the fire-integration logic each opening needs.
Planning checklist
Network Rack Readiness Checklist
Rack-room location and adjacencies, ventilation and heat load, power and UPS runtime class, containment entry, elevation planning and labelling discipline — the acceptance checks to run before any equipment is installed.
- For —
- IT and facilities teams preparing a rack room for active equipment.
- Helps decide —
- Whether the rack room's location, cooling, power and containment are ready for equipment to land.
Planning checklist
Structured Cabling Planning Checklist
Outlet and drop planning by space type, category and fibre-backbone selection logic, pathway and containment sizing, telecom-room requirements, certification expectations and as-built records — with the questions a 25-year horizon demands.
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- IT teams and consultants planning a building's passive network.
- Helps decide —
- Outlet planning, category selection, pathway sizing and the testing regime a cabling plant needs.
Sector checklist
Industrial / Warehouse Technology Planning Checklist
Site zoning, fire detection in high-bay and dusty environments, perimeter and yard surveillance principles, PA over noise, industrial networking and power continuity — with a phased deployment plan for facilities that stay live through the work.
- For —
- Factory, warehouse and estate managers planning technology over large sites.
- Helps decide —
- How fire, surveillance, PA, networking and power continuity are planned across an industrial site.
/ Brief templates & blueprints · 3 documents
Brief template
Smart Home Brief Template
A fill-in brief that captures the residence the way an automation engineer needs to read it — rooms, daily routines, lighting moods, AV expectations, network reality and future-proofing intent.
- For —
- Homeowners and designers preparing a written automation brief.
- Helps decide —
- How to describe rooms, routines and priorities so the first proposal is the right one.
Brief template
Auditorium AV Brief Template
Seat count, programme types, acoustic intent, PA and line-array expectations, projection or LED choice, stage lighting and control — structured so the brief survives procurement intact.
- For —
- Institutions, government departments and PMCs briefing an auditorium project.
- Helps decide —
- The acoustic, AV, lighting and control intent a tender or design brief must pin down.
Sector blueprint
Hospitality Technology Stack Blueprint
The reference architecture we use for hospitality work — guest room, public area, back-of-house and infrastructure layers, with the integration points between PMS, networking, AV, CCTV and fire.
- For —
- Hotel owners and operators planning or refreshing a property's full stack.
- Helps decide —
- How the guest-facing and back-of-house layers fit together across a property.
/ Procurement, handover & AMC · 10 documents
Company profile
TechnoGuru Company Profile 2026
The current company profile — disciplines, statutory registrations, certifications, selected reference projects and the engagement process — in a single document suitable for vendor files.
- For —
- Procurement teams, consultants and institutions evaluating TechnoGuru.
- Helps decide —
- Whether the practice's disciplines, registrations and references fit your project.
Procurement pack
Procurement / Vendor Onboarding Pack
GST, PAN, IEC, MSME / Udyam and bank details in the format vendor-registration portals ask for, plus the statutory document copies a procurement file typically requires.
- For —
- Purchase and accounts teams onboarding TechnoGuru as a vendor.
- Helps decide —
- Everything an empanelment or vendor-registration file needs in one request.
Procurement reference
System Integration Procurement FAQ
The questions we believe every SI tender should ask — scope boundaries, commissioning deliverables, documentation standards, training, spares and AMC terms — with why each one matters.
- For —
- Procurement officers comparing system-integration bids.
- Helps decide —
- The technical questions that separate comparable bids from incomparable ones.
Scope template
AMC Scope Template
A scope-of-work skeleton for ELV / AV / automation AMC — system inventory, visit cadence, response-target structure, escalation chain, documentation deliverables and renewal checkpoints.
- For —
- Facilities teams drafting or renewing a maintenance contract.
- Helps decide —
- What a complete AMC scope covers — visits, response targets, documentation, spares.
Operations checklist
Preventive AMC Checklist
System-by-system preventive routines — fire alarm and PA test points, CCTV and recording health, network and UPS checks, automation scene verification — with the records each visit should leave behind.
- For —
- Facilities engineers running scheduled maintenance on integrated systems.
- Helps decide —
- What a preventive visit must actually inspect, test and record per system.
Handover checklist
Project Handover Documentation Checklist
As-built drawings, configuration baselines and offline archives, test records, credential handover, warranty registers and training sign-off — the checklist that decides whether a handover is real.
- For —
- Owners, PMCs and facilities teams receiving an integrated-systems project.
- Helps decide —
- Which documents, baselines and credentials a complete handover must include.
Capability statement
Capability Statement
The fixed-format statement empanelment forms and tender files ask for — legal identity and statutory identifiers, scope of capability, sectors and geography, standards worked to — formatted for direct insertion into a vendor file. Registration remains subject to each organisation's own process.
- For —
- Procurement teams filling empanelment forms and tender files.
- Helps decide —
- Whether the practice's identity, scope, sectors and registrations fit a vendor file as-is.
Reference pack
Project Reference Pack
Assembled per request from owner-approved public references, scoped to the requester's sector or geography — brief, systems and brands coordinated, standards followed and the handover discipline. Packs never include quantities or commercial detail.
- For —
- Buyers and consultants asking for references relevant to their sector or geography.
- Helps decide —
- Which comparable, owner-approved projects support a shortlisting decision.
Procurement reference
Tender Support Capability Note
Where the practice fits in a tender cycle — vendor-neutral specification review, BOQ structuring, compliance documentation and statutory readiness — and what it does not do: no rate cards; every commercial answer is a written estimate after drawings or a BOQ review.
- For —
- Departments, PMCs and consultants running a tender for integrated systems.
- Helps decide —
- What the practice contributes at tender stage and which documents a bid file can draw on.
Policy document
Project Confidentiality Policy
The practice's written confidentiality posture — the categories never published (quantities, commercial detail, security and access layouts, rack and network detail), drawing and site-information handling, and the owner-plus-client clearance every public reference passes through.
- For —
- Clients, consultants and institutions weighing how their project information is handled.
- Helps decide —
- What is never published, how drawings and site information are handled, and how public references are approved.
/ Guides by audience & discipline
Reference guides, written for your seat at the table.
/ Resources · For architects
Pre-coordination for architects
Cable pathways, panel locations, acoustic treatment and life-safety zoning — what to coordinate at design stage so the systems integrate cleanly with the building.
Read the guide →/ Resources · For consultants
Specification + BOQ guidance for consultants
Vendor-neutral specifications, BOQ structure, design-review checklists and protocol selection guidance for MEP/ELV/AV consultants.
Read the guide →/ Resources · For facility managers
Operations + AMC guidance for facility managers
Preventive calendars, runbooks, lifecycle planning, incident response and AMC scoping — for the FM team that inherits the building.
Read the guide →/ Resources · Specification support
Specification support
Vendor-neutral specification templates, engineering-pack structures and protocol selection notes — assembled from the practice's working documents.
Read the guide →/ Resources · BOQ guidance
BOQ guidance
BOQ structure, line-item rationale, scope clarification and bid-comparison guidance — for fair, defensible procurement.
Read the guide →/ Resources · AMC planning
AMC planning
How to scope, structure and renew an AMC — preventive calendar, response targets, lifecycle hooks and renewal metrics.
Read the guide →/ Resources · Maintenance checklists
Maintenance checklists
Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual checklists derived from the practice's preventive calendars across BMS, fire, PA, CCTV, UPS, BESS and AV.
Read the guide →/ Resources · System health
System health monitoring
BMS dashboards, CCTV health metrics, UPS state, network capacity — the operational metrics that matter and the cadence to review them.
Read the guide →/ Resources · Hospitality
Hotel & resort technology planning
What a new hotel, resort or banquet property should plan before construction — fire safety, CCTV, Wi-Fi, AV, BMS and power — and when each decision locks in.
Read the guide →/ Resources · Procurement
Vendor registration & onboarding
What TechnoGuru shares for vendor-registration review — company profile, statutory details, credentials, references — and how to request the onboarding pack.
Read the guide →/ Resources · For builders & developers
Technology planning for builders & developers
Drawing-stage ELV, fire, networking and automation planning for builders and developers in Northeast India. Tender packages, amenity blocks and handover.
Read the guide →/ Looking for something specific?
We commission resources on request.
For sector-specific or project-specific reference material — sample documentation packs, indicative commissioning reports, calibration test plans, AMC scope templates — write to us with your brief. We supply documentation, redacted as necessary, that helps you make a well-informed engagement. You can also start from the brief wizard or the planning tools.