The trend of IoT enabled building intelligence is here to stay

Gaurav Burman is the VP & Country President of 75F India. His previous position was with Schneider Electric, as their Director – Marketing where he was also a part of the Management Team of Schneider Electric, South Asia. Gaurav has handled diverse portfolios in his career including product management, alliances, channel sales, and enterprise sales.

Prior to Marketing, Gaurav spent 20 years of his life in Sales and worked with companies like PCL, IBM, L&T, APC, and Schneider Electric. He was recently recognized as one of the 50 Most Talented CMOs in India in 2013, and one of the 100 Most Talented CMOs in the World by the US-based CMO Council.

Gaurav obtained his Civil Engineering Degree from The Thapar Institute, Patiala. He pursued his MBA in Marketing from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

There are officially more connected devices than people in the world! Gartner estimates that there will be 11.19 bn connected devices in 2018 setting the stage for 20.4 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices to be deployed by 2020. These staggering numbers are a clear indication of the momentum of IoT and its growing popularity in our day to day lives.

Today, amid the flurry of smart homes, self-driving cars and smart wearable devices, globally, only about 15% of commercial buildings are “smart,” with connected building automation systems in place. Of course, this is all set to change. In fact, the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) market is projected to have the fastest and largest growth in connected devices between 2016 and 2021, surpassing even smart homes, according to the Smart Building Research firm Memoori².

Why? Because, with buildings consuming 40% of the world’s energy, there is a need for energy efficient solutions. Also, the myriad, disparate systems such as HVAC, Lighting, security, etc. that form the crux of a smart commercial building have ushered in the need for integration and effective utilization of resources. Use of IoT and cloud-based applications makes it possible to achieve these two objectives – making buildings energy efficient, comfortable, automated and truly smart.

Smarter Technology for Productive, Sustainable Buildings.
Legacy building controls systems are overbuilt and expensive for most commercial building owners and operators. Those systems are being displaced by new, born-digital solutions. Fueled by the proliferation of affordable sensors and cloud computing, this new breed of building intelligence solutions combines the Internet of Things (IoT), wireless communications, big data and cloud-based algorithms to sense, predict and proactively manage the needs of the building.

These intelligence solutions consistently monitor, manage and control various dimensions of the building such as indoor air quality, thermal comfort, lighting and sound keeping the occupant at the heart of the strategy and working to improve efficiency and productivity. Studies show that small changes such as improved ventilation will boost the productivity of the occupants by 11% while better lighting will spark a whopping 23% jump in efficiency. Similarly, if the indoor environment is too cold the occupant’s output comes down by nearly 50% and if the commercial building is too warm, the attendance drops by 18% and project turnaround times increase by 13%. Building Intelligence solution take the benefits of IoT to a whole new level, ensuring an optimal indoor environment for enhanced productivity.
It’s no surprise that IoT powered Building Intelligence is quickly becoming an indispensable business resource. Take for example, 75F’s predictive, proactive building intelligence system. It understands that your building is a dynamic entity. That’s why it uses the Internet of Things and cloud computing to predict, analyze, monitor and control your building’s hot and cold spots, air quality concerns, lighting imbalances and energy inefficiencies before they occur. It gathers and analyses data, formulates and recommends future actions making the building automated and truly smart.

By continually monitoring a room’s needs, analyzing incoming data, and controlling what goes in and out, the 75F system effectively manages your building’s energy loads. This prevents thermal discomfort by eliminating temperature imbalances, regardless of which heating or cooling system you have. More than simply turning the lights on or off, it considers factors about your building before determining the ideal time to adjust the lighting. And, it allows you to remotely monitor, manage and control your buildings’ HVAC, lighting and energy consumption from anywhere using our suite of web and mobile apps, Facilisight. All this while saving you up to 50% on your HVAC and lighting energy bills and enhancing occupant health and productivity.

75F achieves this through our state-of-the-art vertically integrated suite of wireless sensors, equipment controllers and cloud-based software. The sensors, sense and collect hundreds of data points from the room every minute and send the data to the Central Control Unit & from there to the servers in the Cloud. Each night cloud computing algorithms analyze thousands of data points, including the weather forecast & daily usage patterns that allow the system to predict future conditions. The system also factors in real-time events, such as room occupancy, the position of the sun and weather patterns to make continuous adjustments to the plan as needed.

75F SmartStat™ Zone Sensing and Control Device – One of 75F’s Sensors for Smart Indoor Environment Management
The newest IOT control device – SmartStat™ is a state-of-the-art sleek looking control device that can monitor a host of critical building functions ranging from Temperature, Humidity, Light, Occupancy, CO2 and VOC to Sound.

The 75F SmartStat™ comes with an integrated in-room, wall-mounted user interface, coupled with multiple sensors. This device is designed to control a range of equipment and parameters to help support a comfortable, healthy and an efficient building. This intuitive control monitor and system is perfect for office spaces, conference rooms, hotel rooms, patient rooms and other environments where individual zone sensing, display and controls are required.

The SmartStat™ offers a radial touch-illuminated interface that allows local user control for temperature and functions like fan speed. The mounting plate covers the footprint of replaced thermostats for easy retrofits without cosmetic wall work.

A new era of Smart Buildings is here Commercial buildings will become the smartest, most connected buildings in the Internet of Things ecosystem over the next few years. Smart buildings cut expenses in energy, maintenance and other areas, making for a straightforward payback timeframe.

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