Smart buildings

Smart buildings

A smart building is an active contributor to the experience and success of its stakeholders. #CreatingPerfectPlaces

Striving for the perfect place

We spend up to 90 percent of our lives in buildings, and we believe that everything people do in life deserves a perfect place to do it. A perfect place to learn. A perfect place to grow. A perfect place to prosper. While it’s true that today’s buildings should be efficient, reliable and safe – these characteristics alone don’t enable businesses and empower people the way a true smart building can.

Smart buildings are a new and powerful source of competitive advantage. They interact with its people, systems and external elements around them. They learn from past experiences and real-time inputs. They adapt to the needs of the people and the businesses within them. Through intelligent control, security and energy management systems we help factories and offices better support the industries within them, and we help schools and hospitals have more impact – all while increasing comfort, efficiency, resilience and safety.

 

When we connect these perfect places to neighborhoods, cities and beyond we create environments that care.

Smart buildings
Smart buildings

White paper: Striving for the perfect place

How can you turn buildings – inanimate, silent and passive structures – into living environments that can interact with their occupants, learn from them, and ultimately adapt to their changing needs? Explore the world of smart buildings and learn what a perfect place of the future will look like. 

How do we turn buildings into living environments that can interact with their occupants, learn from them and ultimately adapt to their changing needs?

With our unique mix of people, technology and services we provide a solid foundation to enhance your building performance with the power of data – and ultimately create the perfect place for you to achieve your business goals.
People: Global expertise with local presence

Global expertise with local presence

With global expertise and local understanding we help design smart infrastructures that are at the heart of buildings and that can adapt over time. More than 170 years of experience give us a solid foundation to know how to take action and turn building data into tangible value.

Technology: Gaining control of data to transform your operations

Gaining control of data to transform your operations

We bring automation to buildings to make them more efficient, responsive and adaptable. Through control, security and energy management systems we gain control of data and transform your operations in order to help factories and offices better support them.

Services: Increasing performance across the entire lifecycle

Increasing performance across the entire lifecycle

When it comes to increasing asset and system performance across the building lifecycle, connected and data-driven building technology is key. Digitalization of services allows you to meet your business goals more effectively.

Buildings of tomorrow - the smart buildings podcast

Buildings of tomorrow - the smart buildings podcast

Exciting discussions on industry trends and the innovations which make buildings safer, sustainable, and deliver more productive and healthier environments.

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Trends and Topics

Smart infrastructure

Smart infrastructure

Smart infrastructure from Siemens intelligently connects smart grids, smart buildings and industries to adapt and evolve the way we live and work.

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Smart cities

Smart cities

How can cities leverage the benefits of digitalization to relieve the stress on overstretched services and resources?Smart city solutions contribute to the effective management of urban areas, improving connectivity, sustainability, and liveability.

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Digitalization and AI in the smart buildings sector

Digitalization and AI in the smart buildings sector

What do digitalization and artificial intelligence mean for the building sector? Why is it important that companies rethink their traditional business models, and how can they benefit from new business models?

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Building information modeling (BIM)

Building information modeling (BIM)

Building information modeling (BIM) is the equivalent of digitalization in the construction industry: It is a digitally supported process for planning, constructing and operating buildings that significantly boosts productivity.

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Market focus

A perfect place is a place that’s perfect for a purpose

Smart office

Your productivity depends to a great extent on your work environment. We’ve focused our expertise in building automation and building management to create work spaces that are safe and secure, flexible, comfortable, intelligent and sustainable – which allows employees to focus on their tasks. Contact us for more information.

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Life science

Our integrated life science technologies are specifically designed for the unique operational requirements in the life science industry. You can rely on our comprehensive approach to minimizing risks and increasing efficiency in each step of your value chain.

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Data center

Maximum uptime, the highest energy efficiency, full scalability: Data center operators face a multitude of challenges. We’ve used our extensive expertise and experience to create a comprehensive portfolio of integrated data center solutions and global services that will help you master these challenges.

Smart hospital

Hospital management needs to meet many different requirements: In addition to optimal care for patients, a positive and productive work environment for your staff is just as important as managing resources efficiently. You can use our services, products and solutions to ensure comfort, energy efficiency, safety and security throughout your entire facility. Contact us for more information.

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References

#CreatingPerfectPlaces around the world

Pine Grove Middle School
East Syracuse, New York
USA

Creating a new learning environment for new minds

  • Pine Grove Middle School is one of seven schools in East Syracuse Minoa Central School District (ESM) in New York, educating 3,750 students every year.

  • Energy-efficient facility improvements and temperature control have enabled ESM to not only save money but realize their vision by implementing a new teaching and learning model.

RMIT University in Australia
RMIT University
Australia

A perfect place to inspire

  • With building technology from Siemens, the historic buildings at RMIT’s City campus in Melbourne have been turned into a place where the university practices what it preaches when it comes to the environment;

  •  impacting both its own sustainability performance as well as the thousands of young minds that pass through its doors every day.

Siemens
Zug
Switzerland

A perfect place to work

  • 22,500 square meters of campus area, office, innovation and production space for 1,700 Siemens employees and 500 external tenants.

  • Exemplary photovoltaic system on the roof of the production building, rainwater utilization in the office building and lake water utilization for heating and cooling.

  • Using BIM from day one, deploying the latest products for ventilation and heating control, video surveillance and fire protection, and the Desigo CC integrated building management platform.

Is your building an active contributor to the user-experience and your business success?

We can help you turn your building into an active asset of your business. Please feel free to contact us. We are ready to help.