What does that look like?

One management platform can centralises it all. Here is the daily building management capability:

• 2,000 lights can be managed from one central system, illuminating 12,000 square metres of space
• 320 people arrive at five access card readers, 6 smart lifts automatically open, taking staff to their floors securely, saving 11kWh of energy
• 150 fire extinguishers, 100 smoke detectors, 15 fire panels and two suppression systems protect the building against the threat of smoke and flame
• 86 cameras secure the building’s traffic and identity management
• 100 control points are accessed 3,200 times a day
• 150 vents manage 21,000 litres of conditioned air per second, heated or cooled as needed by BMS software

… but there are also some unexpected value adds.

• Data from access control systems inform two chefs in the building canteen how much food to prepare for the day ahead.
• 17 meeting rooms are booked and secured through the email calendar systems of employees and linked to access control for access.
• 2,000 car parking spaces are monitored across five car parks, predicting free spaces over the following week and informing staff as they arrive for work.
• An IoT platform ingests data from 290 data points per second to facilitate logistics.
• 82 live bus routes and 15 train schedules are sent to the cell phones of building occupants as they prepare their journeys home.

By offering concierge-like services that ease them through their workday with a lot less effort and stress , this smart building is driving productivity and maximising the effectiveness of employees as well as the consumption of the facility.

What makes it all hang together so effortlessly? The use of an advanced Contact us today if you would like to find out more. 

This is the future of security

Financial institutions are already beginning to think beyond building management. In fact, some of this functionality is already being deployed locally by financial institutions. Security and convenience are important for banks in South Africa, especially in large headquarter facilities that are often located in busy, congested areas, with a huge number of people accessing the facilities daily.

As employee experience becomes more important, and AI and IoT data becomes more ubiquitous, expect to see more functionality built into and onto these platforms.