Tag: Smart Buildings

White Paper: Assessing Smart Buildings – The Time is Now for a Holistic Approach

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There’s no denying the growing demand for smarter buildings – regardless of building type or industry vertical. The question becomes: How do building owners, REITs, and developers assess the overall intelligence of a building? Currently, the market lacks holistic assessment criteria to evaluate or rate a building’s intelligence. There are several well-known and respected programs that measure and assess portions of building intelligence, such as its sustainability or connectivity, but for commercial real estate investors, a holistic approach is overdue. In a new position paper, TIA proposes six key categories to address when evaluating and building smarter buildings: Connectivity, Health & Wellbeing, Life & Property Safety, Power & Energy, Cybersecurity and Sustainability.

What is a Smart building?

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A Smart Building is defined as ‘a structure embedded or retrofitted with internet-connected devices and appliances’.   Smart buildings have a lot of reported benefits including increased efficiency, reduced utility costs and simplifying daily life for tenants. Smart buildings achieve these benefits by using sensors and actuators to collect and manage data according to the business’ services and functions. The effectiveness of smart buildings centre on the use of interconnected technologies to make buildings more intelligent and responsive which as a result can improve their performance and optimise how space is used.

How Facility Management Can Keep Up in the Digital Age

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Facility management, like every other business field, is undergoing digital transformation. Learn about facility management in the digital age. This guide addresses the basics of facility management, top technology developments affecting the field from building automation systems to big data; and the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation in facility management.
 

7 Ways Smart Buildings are Changing Commercial Real Estate

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Smart building technology has a profound effect on many industries, such as manufacturing, as well as the commercial real estate market. Today’s businesses are looking for more than an empty building that they house their equipment in. The smart building features are as much of a selling point as the location. Here are seven other ways that smart buildings are changing commercial real estate: Expanding options, fully Integrated systems, Adapting to tenants’ technology requirements, improving environmental friendliness, and better automation due to versatile IoT sensors.

Smart Buildings – Digital has the power to create ‘living’ workspaces  

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.A truly smart building is able to communicate across different systems and services to allow the occupier to make the best possible decisions, whether automatically or by intervening. There is still a way to go before connected buildings becomes the norm, but building efficiency can be increased by an average of around 40-50% across the main cities in the world.

Smart City: Only Feasible with Fiber Optics

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The digital infrastructures of a smart city cannot be networked by radio alone. Information and data volumes as well as time-critical applications are constantly increasing due to digitalization and urbanization. Ultimately, only a fiber optic infrastructure can meet the communication and performance requirements of a smart city. So fiber optic networks form the foundation walls of a smart city.

Smart buildings – what’s the value to smart cities? Part Two

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While the benefits and Return on Investment (ROI) of smart buildings are well documented for tenants, building owners and operators, similar information for cities are limited at best. In addition, cities measure the benefits and ROI of smart buildings differently, and look beyond financial metrics. Part Two provides a framework for identifying areas of value creation and share a sample set of values and benefits for cities.

Energy Source Tapped for Powering Smart Sensor Networks

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The electricity that powers appliances and lights homes also generates small magnetic fields that exist everywhere. A research team, headed by Penn State scientists, built a device that delivers as high as 400% higher power output when compared to other advanced technology when working with low-level magnetic fields similar to those seen in buildings and homes. The technology holds major implications for designing smart buildings, which will need self-driven wireless sensor networks to perform things like remote control of systems and tracking energy and operational patterns, the researchers said.