ABI Research reports that connecting smart home and smart cities projects could benefit both. Top-down coordinated smart city projects have only been partly successful, achieving deployment of smart street lights and opening doors to things like car and bike-sharing schemes. But when it comes to broader integrated projects, such as transforming a city’s healthcare offering or upgrading its power distribution infrastructure, complexity and cost quickly become barriers.
The uLAN is an emerging network made up of non-traditional Ethernet-enabled utility devices that are now connecting to the network. While the traditional Core LAN – comprised of the PC, VoIP phone and WiFi – is not expected to undergo significant change through 2022, the emerging uLAN is expected to grow significantly over that time. The uLAN and the network infrastructure supporting it will be largely responsible for connecting and powering the billions of new devices needed to make buildings smart.
Fiber is the medium of choice when data is mission-critical. Providers of optical fiber, fiber-optic cable, and fiber-optic connectivity have continuously revised and improved their products to better serve the exacting demands of end-user organizations. This webinar examines several technological advancements that have been made to multimode fiber-based systems and explores connectivity options. It provides detailed information on the fiber, cable, and connectivity types that are available, and describes how these fiber-based components can be incorporated into complete end-to-end systems.
PoE technologies are a critical component to Smart Buildings. Deploying these sophisticated systems can be a daunting task, which is why it is important to understand testing considerations that certify the physical infrastructure meets IEEE, ANSI and TIA standards. This paper provides a standards update across all technologies as well as examples of testing configuration, tests that should be run, gotchas to watch out for, and how to interpret test results.
By 2030, millennials are expected to make up 75% of the workforce – and they are demanding a more productive and flexible work environment that enables activity-based working.
Smart offices are the key to meeting these requirements. They use state-of-the-art building technology to improve employee performance and reveal ways to use office space efficiently and economically. With smart office, the space you work in becomes part of the team. Download the White Paper to learn more.
Modern buildings are equipped with thousands of sensors recording air quality, humidity, motion, temperature and the presence of noxious gases. The sensors continuously record energy consumption and waste. Smart algorithms running on networked computers analyze sensor-generated data in real time.
The advanced instrumentation generates sophisticated building performance statistics that are displayed on information dashboards. The workforce needed to make informed and smart decisions from the treasure trove of sensor-generated data needs to be both building-science and data-science savvy. Such workers are in very short supply.
Openreach has selected OFS to deliver innovative products that enable deployment in existing buildings with an almost invisible fibre as part of Openreach’s announced rollout of faster, more reliable and future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises broadband to reach 4 million premises by March 2021. A major part of this target is to deliver effectively to Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs), where the task of connecting multiple customers as quickly and as reliably as possible, whilst minimizing disruption, is a key challenge. The OFS InvisiLight® Solution utilizes EZ-Bend® Optical fibre that enables worry free bending around the many tight corners found inside buildings.
Glass in architecture has been recently used more intensively thanks to developments in its manufacturing. I am sure that glass as façade material or structural element will be more and more popular with future advanced glass technology. We already have products with integrated technical systems such as heated glass panels or glass with solar collectors. In the future, every surface of a building could produce solar energy.
While smart buildings have been traditionally associated with technology such as building automation or IoT, the focus is now shifting from technology to user experience. We’ve identified seven attributes: Personalize, Find, Optimize, Communicate, Conserve, Control and Secure. Putting the user experience at the centre of the design process and using technology as a “means to an end, not the end itself” will enable the industry to deliver buildings that are fit for purpose. The IoT is central to this process, as increasingly, buildings will be driven by data. Using the data available through IoT allows more informed decision-making related to facility operations and the use of the building by its occupants.
Smart buildings can only be smart if all digital organs can communicate with each other without any barriers. The idea of the smart building is based on a uniform nerve structure and a common language in the form of structured cabling for data networks and the Internet Protocol.
