Earlier this month we attended Deloitte’s and Intel’s The Building of the Future event.
The event included two very interesting lectures delivered by senior executives from Microsoft and Intel, as well as a panel of experts from several companies. During the panel the crowd raised many questions about the smart building transformation process and the infrastructure required for it.
Since many of these questions are key questions on the subject, we decided to dedicate a post to them, sharing our thoughts about the smart building field.
What forces are making smart buildings attractive?
The main force making the field attractive is cost minimizing – mostly though energy consumption reducement and predictive maintenance.
But, you’ll be surprised to find out it is definitely not the only force.
Smart buildings allow new space management capabilities that serve both the landlord and the tenant. Most modern employees prefer working in flexible workplaces with a sustainable agenda. Business owners can easily provide those types of working environments by renting a space in a connected building. The building landlords optimize revenue by improving the management of the property and dividing the leased areas in a flexible manner.
The new technologies also offer “accounting quick cheats”, making buildings easier to operate and saving both time & money.
What are the common use cases of smart buildings in different verticals?
| Building Type | Top Use Cases |
| Offices | Office space optimization |
| Meeting room Management | |
| Energy consumption reducement | |
| Retail | Que management |
| Traffic monitoring | |
| Hospitals and Healthcare | Falling detection |
| Patiant monitoring |
Can any building become smart?
Any building can become smarter.
In recent years sensor manufacturing has greatly advanced there are technologies to connect almost anything – from garbage bins to elevators. Even if a building wasn’t planned as a smart building you can connect the systems in it and enjoy “smart” features.
How do you begin adding smart building features to your asset?
- You start by choosing the orchestration infrastructure.
- Adding individual sensors is simple, but a smart building is much more complex.
- Value is derived from hundreds of sensors transmitting information to a shared repository that enables advanced analytics and cross-application actions.
- You need to be able to support any protocol today and in the future.
- It’s all about the orchestration between different sensors and systems.
Without an oiled system you’ll dwell on the technical aspects every time you’ll connect a sensor from a new type or vendor.
Dedicating the time and efforts to choose or develop a platform would serve your building over time.
It will allow you to be flexible in choosing your hardware and have the best value for your investment, both financially and time wise.
Smart building orchestration as-a-service
Projects on the scale of buildings require technological background and experience.
Many customers turn to service providers and system integrators to digitize their assets.
To make these projects into a scalable repeatable business, system integrators work with Axonize.
Using our flexible platform, service providers can offer a solution to any customer with any use case in a very, very short time. With no servers to deploy of software to install once you configure the app it will be up and running. That allows you to immediately run a business logic on the sensors you choose to connect, giving your customer an immediate ROI.