IoT Solutions that Transform Businesses

Digital business leaders are implementing IoT solutions to not only improve the operational efficiency of buildings but also to improve occupant well-being, increase staff productivity and optimize space and asset utilization

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Data driven insights transform your building into a dynamic asset

Opportunities to focus on occupant experience and improve staff and real estate productivity create significantly more value than a singular focus on operational efficiency. People expect technology to improve their experiences within your building, and they make decisions about where they work, spend their money, and devote their time accordingly. A focus on occupant experience and engagement creates a competitive advantage, improves employee retention rates and drives revenue growth.

Enhancing the occupant experience

Walk the halls of any building and it’s easy to see, we’re all juggling a lot. Thankfully, as the pace of life speeds up, the office has gotten smarter with building technologies from Siemens. Comfort. Safety. Security. Efficiency. At the end of the day, everyone benefits when a building is smart.

Components By implementing the right building technology, organizations can leverage data to make informed decisions and drive business outcomes. Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure plays a key role, laying the foundation for your smart building.

Smart Devices

IP enabled sensors/smart devices are the fundamental building blocks – capturing the data that powers the IoT.

The Cloud

Real-time data is collected and sent to “the cloud” so it can be easily accessed and analyzed.

Data Analytics

An advanced analytics platform analyzes the data to deliver actionable insights.

Mobile Interface

Data and insights are available anytime, anywhere.

Siemens Smart Building

Enhancing building performance through the power of data.

Siemens has a complete portfolio of smart building technologies, applications and services to help our customers achieve their goals. It starts with harnessing the right data from the building, its occupants and their surroundings. The foundation of Siemens smart building is an Intelligent Infrastructure, which enables the building to collect and analyze data. Leveraging this Intelligent Infrastructure, Digital Services and Applications can be implemented to turn this data into actionable insights and address your specific business challenges - from energy conservation to space and asset optimization.

With the seamlessly integrated solutions, an IoT network and advanced data analytics, Siemens delivers a smart building that is:

Comfortable and safe
Energy and asset efficient
Space and user efficient
Energy intelligent and resilient

The era of the smart building is here.

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Enlighted IoT Platform

Enlighted’s IoT platform is built around an advanced smart sensor which has several built-in functions including: motion sensing, light level sensing and control, power level monitoring, temperature sensing, and local Bluetooth connectivity. With our breakthrough sensor technology, the Enlighted IoT platform lays the foundation for a smart building.

Smart sensors are in each light fixture and capture occupancy, ambient light, temperature and energy consumption data. These IoT sensors digitize the building by gathering a rich and continuous stream of data that provides powerful insights into building operations and enables digital applications that deliver significant value to your organization. This data can be used to increase energy efficiency, optimize space and asset utilization, increase safety and security and enhance the building occupant experience. The end result is reduced operating costs, increased staff productivity and increased revenues.

Key Components of the Enlighted Solution include:

Smart Sensor

Collects and monitors real-time occupancy, temperature, light levels and energy usage and is equipped with Bluetooth LE technology to enable location-based services.

Gateway

Provides the communication channel between smart sensors and energy manager and a transition from wireless to IP wired networking.

Energy Manager

Provides a secure browser-based interface to create profiles and adjust settings of the entire Enlighted advanced lighting control system.

Room Control

Occupants can manually adjust lighting levels to save energy, increase comfort or tailor illumination for specific tasks.

Amaze

Cloud-based, scalable data platform where applications can harvest and analyze vast amounts of IoT data leading to actionable insights.

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Actionable Insights Enlighted sensors are installed in and powered by each lighting fixture in a building, creating a dense sensor network with advanced motion tracking and occupancy detection capabilities. The data collected can be used to gain valuable insights on building operations and drive the right business decisions. Applications to turn this data into actionable insights include:

Energy Management

Providing data about how the building is being utilized by its occupants allows building management to adjust usage to increase energy efficiency. Temperature and lighting can automatically adjust based on occupancy, providing comfort levels where people are and reducing energy usage where they aren’t. And sensors monitor changes in ambient light levels to maintain the desired level of overhead lighting.

Space Utilization

Building managers use motion, occupancy and space utilization data to deliver improved space planning, better return on real estate capital investments and optimized employee workflows. Space utilization analytics provide insights using data collected 24/7 across the building. Detailed utilization metrics inform better space planning decisions.

Safety and Security

Real-time location services keep people and equipment safe and secure and ensure business continuity. Equipment theft can be prevented by triggering alerts when valuable assets leave a designated area. In the event of an emergency, sensors can locate people in the building and provide valuable information to first responders, who can assist employees to safety and quickly exit the building. And by analyzing the flow patterns of occupants and understanding average number of building occupants on a given day, security presence and procedures can be adjusted accordingly to enhance safety and security.

Real-Time Location Services

Using Bluetooth LE tags and dashboards, real-time location services can locate equipment and visitor or staff badges. The system also uses virtual tags to locate Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices like smart phones or tablets. Employees can quickly locate the nearest available equipment, saving staff time and improving customer response times, e.g. a nurse locating a wheelchair for a patient. Asset utilization can also be increased, resulting in reduced capital expenditures. Visitors can use wayfinding to easily find their way around a building, improving the customer experience.

Comfy Solution

Comfy is the only workplace experience solution to creating amazing experiences AND deliver operational results. Comfy engages occupants and provides them with the experience they expect and delivers the results workplace teams need. The user experience app gives occupants individual control over their environment, improving the occupant experience, driving productivity and increasing employee retention.

In addition, Comfy Insights combines data from the app as well as existing building and digital system, enabling a better understanding of overall building performance and how employees utilize different spaces. With our expertise, we help customers gain access to richer data from the employees’ experience and existing systems—empowering them to make better business decisions.

IoT Solutions By connecting to existing workplace systems, the Comfy app provides occupants personalized control over their building environment. Our Comfy solution seamlessly connects occupants directly to the building through a single, intuitive app, empowering them to control aspects of their building environment including temperature, lighting, meeting rooms, and more. Applications include:

Temperature

Warm or cool workspaces on-demand, and have preferences automatically applied over time.

Lighting

Change light levels in open spaces or meeting rooms and adjust the schedule when working late.

Rooms

Find and book meeting rooms on-the-go and auto-cancel ones that are "booked" but unused.

Desks

ind and book desks quickly based on availability, nearby amenities, and preferences.

Work Requests

Submit work requests or flag issues to workplace teams, when and where they arise.

Maps & Amenities

Locate the nearest café, restroom, and more—on any floor.

Get started on your smart building journey today

Siemens offers a comprehensive portfolio of IoT solutions to meet all your needs, including energy management, space utilization, safe and secure environments, location-based services and personalized workplace experience. Implementing the right infrastructure and smart building solutions can reduce capital and operating costs, increase staff productivity and retention and enhance occupant experience and drive revenue growth

Get started on the path to a smart building today.