In the world’s major cities, they’re looking to smart building systems—systems that combine the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to drive up efficiency, reduce waste, and gain knowledge and insights.
For the uninitiated, here’s how it works: a building is fit out with physical sensors that can “talk” to each other and the internet. These pick up all sorts of information such as environmental data, occupancy and motion data, energy usage, security data, water and leak detection, and equipment performance. The level of detail we’re now able to get is astounding. Managers of smart buildings can find out the humidity and air quality of individual rooms, how many people are in a certain place, who is in the building and when they entered, and the wear and tear of critical infrastructure, such as lifts and escalators.
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