A small case study to start with: Imagine you are on your way to work and wonder if there is still a space available in the underground car park. A glance at your smartphone gives you the answer: Number 384 in the back right corner of the car park is available. You hold your mobile phone in front of the small sensor on the underground garage door, the entrance opens and you park your car in the car park. On the way through the building to your workplace, the lift automatically stops at the right floor. Scenes from the future? No, Smart Buildings are examples of today.
You open another door to your office with your mobile phone. The light above your desk is already switched on and the room temperature is a pleasant 21.5 degrees Celsius – just the way you like it. Another quick glance at your app to see if your boss is already there: Yeah, just came in. You reserve a free meeting room for 9.30 a.m. and send the appointment to your boss. So that the sun doesn’t blind you later – because your boss doesn’t like that at all – the sunshade in front of the meeting room windows is already extended. You open your locker via app and take out your laptop. The working day can begin.
What sounds like science fiction has long since become reality: So-called Smart Buildings – the building operation of tomorrow – control themselves automatically through various Smart Building Solutions and are intelligent.
While Smart Home systems are now well known and refer to the connected home (i.e. the private sphere), the term Smart Building refers specifically to commercial properties. Like their name implies, Smart Buildings are intelligent. By digitising an entire building, the automation and control of the technology is combined. The building communicates, interacts, learns from collected data, adapts to the consumer and thus makes the lives of the people in the building ‘smarter’ – next level building management.
Often mentioned in this context are terms such as Smart Office, Smart Spaces or Smart City, all of which deal with the digitalisation and networking of individual areas of life with the help of Smart Buildings Solutions.
In other words, what can Smart Buildings do that other buildings can’t? And what added value do these technologies offer – especially for people?
An important point in the intelligent buildings of the future is smart access organisation and building control. With SAG Smart Access, we offer digital access solutions consisting of software and hardware for the efficient organisation and automation of buildings. Curious? Click here to go to our digital solutions world!
Development: Our Smart Building Solutions are characterised by a wide range of technologies for user identification, such as PIN code, RFID, mobile programming of cards, wearables and other data carriers, Bluetooth, mobile key systems and much more. Integrated EnOcean wireless technology ensures easy integration of the access systems into the building automation. For example, it can be individually set after how many uses the toilets should be cleaned – always with the aim of sustainable use.
More examples of our Smart Buildings Solutions:
The Smart Building Solutions trade fair in Aachen offers examples, ideas, concepts and versatile solutions. It specifically targets the real estate brownfields, which directly and indirectly contribute to one third of global CO2 emissions. For corporations, property companies and investment companies, the fulfilment of ESG criteria has become a matter of urgency, not least due to the requirements of the European Commission. ESG entails the consideration of environmental, social and governance criteria. Digitalisation offers the opportunity to achieve sustainability goals and meet ESG guidelines. Different building projects all over Europe show how it can be done.
‘Open Space. Open Mind.’ Probably the best-known smart building project is the Cube in Berlin. The Cube by CA Immo is located directly at Berlin’s main railway station and is part of Europacity. The central building management, practically the brain of the digital office building, is based on a large amount of real-time data. These are collected by 3,750 sensors, 750 beacons (Bluetooth hardware transmitters) and 140 mobile phone antennas.
The interaction for users of the Smart Building runs via the associated app. This makes it possible for employees to book their workplace, pre-order food and send parcels. Using artificial intelligence, the system remembers individual preferences and adjusts room temperature and lighting accordingly. This makes the buildings more efficient and ensures sustainable use of the spaces.
Sustainability score of 98.36%: The builders of the Smart Building focus on sustainability and efficient energy consumption. How does that work? The Edge in Amsterdam generates more energy than it consumes. The sunlight is optimally used by the construction and solar cells, so that all laptops, smartphones and electric vehicles can be powered with it. The sensors installed everywhere use the smartphone to detect when a user approaches and can thus regulate light intensity and temperature.
The Internet of Things (IoT) brings many other benefits, personalising objects such as coffee makers or toilets that report on their own in case of malfunction. There are few limits to the office of the future here.
The digitalised property ‘The Ship’ in Cologne-Ehrenfeld is also revolutionary, because here the latest building technology meets atmosphere and design. Besides control of the building via an app and keyless entry, there is also plenty of room for creative ideas and other amenities such as a gym and food court. Multiple applications under one roof – the concept is simple and embodies the working world of tomorrow: networked, agile, collaborative and innovative.
History meets the future. The DSTRCT.BERLIN embodies a holistically networked quarter with many possible uses. The characteristic brick buildings of the Alter Schlachthof in the middle of Berlin stand in exciting contrast to the futuristic glass architecture. Located between Berlin Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg, the smart building stands above all for well-being. The right building technology also ensures this: Ozonation, ionisation and CO2 sensor-controlled devices ensure better air in the rooms. In addition, multi-functional blankets guarantee an ideal room climate.
This does not go unnoticed: The developers are aiming for DGNB GOLD certification and have already received a pre-certificate according to the WELL Building Standard. The digital connectivity of the Smart Building will be highlighted by a WIRED Score certificate in the future.
Top score twice: The EDGE Grand Central in Berlin also has pre-certification for the WELL Building Standard Gold and DGNB Platinum. Everything is simply connected and wired here. Among other things, a state-of-the-art IP backbone ensures the lowest possible energy consumption.
The needs of the employees are in the foreground here: They can customise their environment via a smart building app. Additional options such as room booking, colleague search, etc. can also be easily used. This should make the processes less complex, the entire smart building ‘healthier’ and the employees more satisfied.
Advancing building automation offers a wealth of opportunities and possibilities to reshape and continually improve the working world for companies.
Smart Buildings make a pretty significant contribution to improving the conditions of the respective building users and our environment. However, investments in the Internet of Things (IoT) also bring risks, such as cybercrime or digital vandalism.
That’s why many smart device manufacturers have started to integrate security features into their products. At SAG, we’re experts in the safe organisation of buildings, rooms, doors and cabinets. We realise this on the basis of decades of experience in the form of forward-looking solutions and applications that we are constantly developing. Data protection is a top priority for us and our products and developments are subject to strict testing.
Our four solution concepts ‘Keyless Access’, ‘intelligent cabinet locking’, ‘Preventive Monitoring’ and ‘Individual Room Control’ are explained in detail on the following pages.
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Four superior solution concepts for digital building organisation
Mobile organisation of access across locations, analytical recording of demand and usage data.
Manage utilisation rates and optimise capacities. Create new working models and services.
Ensure security on a preventive basis, monitor locking statuses in real time.
Offer customised convenience, protect resources in a sustainable manner, deliver compelling experiences.
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