Smart Building & Facilities Management

Description

Managing buildings efficiently, eliminating bad space and reducing building costs are some of the challenge’s businesses encounter when getting the maximum return from their investment in property.

With the complete IoT package, building operators can map scenarios such as space monitoring and comfort monitoring in their entirety or modularly.

The goal is to sensibly capture data, improve service quality and reduce costs through using space and resources more efficiently.

With building monitoring and analytics we can address the following pain points:

• Enhance efficiency
• Optimize comfort parameters
• Increase service quality
• Avoid unnecessary costs
• Enable intervention

Having the opportunity to analyse, intervene and improve parameters such as air quality, humidity and temperature can dramatically improve the comfort of a building and increase occupant productivity and overall wellbeing. By avoiding unnecessary heating, open windows and turned on lights in empty spaces we can start tackling wasteful costs.

Solution

T-systems alongside ISS World created a new Digital Facilities management product to target and timely intervene in case of problems and the recognition of space potentials that are not optimally utilized.

This enables a company to create entirely new levels of added value and service opportunities for even happier end users and a higher cost saving potential.

Key Monitoring and analytics for:

• MEETING ROOMS – Analyse occupancy, CO₂, temperature, humidity and light levels. Alarm triggers for conditions such as “C0₂ too high”.
• SHARED DESKS – Monitor desk occupancy, visualization of gathered data, definitions to trigger alarms and notifications
• ROOM COMFORT – Analyse room parameters such as temperature, humidity, light and noise.
• DOOR/WINDOW - Monitor and analyse door/window openings and closings. Alarm and notifications for door/window open too long.
• ROOM USAGE – Functions to monitor and analyse room usage parameters.

Application

1. Pre-configured sensors are installed in the building at critical locations such as meeting rooms, under desks, next to doors and windows. Configuring sensors can be done quickly and securely in the Connected Things Hub.
2. The sensors periodically monitor the building parameters and then transmit the encrypted data via LoRaWAN® radio transmission to a pre-configured LoRaWAN® gateway within proximity.
3. All gateways listen for and receive sensor radio transmissions, and using a LAN/4G backhaul the LoRaWAN® gateway forwards the encrypted data to the LORIOT network server.
4. The received encrypted data is authenticated, and the network server routes the data via output API to the Connected Things Hub IoT platform based on Microsoft Azure
5. Decryption and parsing of the data take place at the Connected Things Hub, where the data is readable, user-friendly and analysed.
6. The facilities management team have access to the Connecting Things Hub for the visualised data, and they can take timely and targeted decisions leading to better outcomes.