Every modern building runs on its low-voltage systems. Security, communications, nurse call, medical equipment: this is the infrastructure that makes a building safe, connected, and usable. Yet when it comes time to design it, low-voltage has always been treated like an afterthought in the model. You can place the devices, but Revit leaves the real work to you.
Devices, but Not Design
Revit will happily let you drop in data, security, and nurse call devices. What it won’t do is engineer the system for you. The power distribution gets the full BIM treatment: coordinated in Revit, calculated from a single source of truth, documented straight from the design. Low-voltage gets a separate drafting tool for the risers, a spreadsheet for the device schedule, and a set of calculations worked out by hand. It’s a lot of careful work to keep three disconnected records agreeing with each other, and one small change can quietly put them out of sync.
Low-Voltage, Designed Inside Revit
DataBIM changes that. It’s a low-voltage BIM tool built specifically for Revit, so your security, communications, nurse call, and medical equipment systems are designed inside the model, right alongside everything else in the building. And once the design lives in the model, the work that used to eat your afternoon starts to take care of itself.
Riser diagrams are a perfect example. Rather than rebuilding a low-voltage riser in a separate program every time the layout shifts, DataBIM generates clean, professional riser diagrams directly from your Revit project, always current, always matching the building. Your calculations come from the model, too: circuit lengths and voltage drop are computed automatically from real geometry and real device data, not from measurements and estimates. And the device data itself (addresses, loads, circuit assignments) lives on the devices in the model, so your documentation and your design are one and the same. No reconciling. No drift.
Built the Way You Already Work
If you already use ElectroBIM for power or FireBIM for fire alarm, this will feel like the natural next step. Design Master has spent two decades building real electrical and life-safety design into Revit and AutoCAD, not bolting it on, but making it native to the way engineers actually work. DataBIM brings that same depth to the low-voltage systems that have been waiting their turn.
What’s Next
DataBIM is in active development right now, and the beta is coming soon. We’re building it hand-in-hand with the engineers who live in these systems every day, because they know exactly where today’s process falls short. If bringing low-voltage into your Revit model is something your projects have been needing, join the beta list to be first in line when it opens, and to help shape what it becomes.
Low-voltage has waited long enough for a real place in the model. With DataBIM, it finally has one.