Smart Building Technology for Offices

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Written By Abiran Raveenthiran

Offices today are being designed and built differently than ever before. With sustainability, wellness and smart building applications as three of the main driving forces behind “today’s” building, it is necessary to provide infrastructures that allow for these goals to be achieved along with providing a backbone that will allow for the built space to easily adapt for the demands of tomorrow. Since 2010, the smartengine platform has been helping customers enable their space to have an infrastructure that does just that.

Making the Workplace Sustainable

Lighting remains the low-hanging fruit to quickly and easily capture energy savings. By leveraging highly-efficient LEDs and using occupancy-based fixture control, smartengine delivers bestin-class energy savings whilst simultaneously enhancing the inherent building experience.

With an average LPD of 0.1 to 0.3 watt/ft2, smartengine provides best in class lighting efficiency to help achieve your sustainability goals.

Lights, sensors, and wall controllers can easily be installed or moved by pulling cat. 5e/6/6a cable to locations. Commissioning and Administration is done via a web-based user interface, using simple drag and drop selection of fixtures associated with locations - ensuring maximum flexibility in lighting customization.

Fine Mesh Sensor Grid Enable Smart Building Use Cases

smartengine’s fine mesh sensor grid averages one sensor per every 100ft2 (10m2) allowing for an enormous amount of data to be collected. With every smartsensor gathering power, motion, illuminance, temperature and bluetooth data (optional), several Smart Building Applications can easily be achieved within the smartmanager or via third party systems thanks to our simple and easy to use RESTful, BACnet/IP and MQTT APIs:

  • Space Analytics

  • Floor Plan

  • Meeting Room Booking

  • Asset Tracking

  • Wayfinding

  • HVAC Optimization

Featuring out-Of-the-Box Smart Office Applications

 

Real-Time Floor Plan Manager

Floor Plan Manager provides real-time insights into your building’s health and utilization on a floorplan basis

 

Space Analytics Tool

Space Analytics provides a deep-dive into space utilization and occupancy to maximize building usage efficiency

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