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IDC Report: 2013 Will Be 'Tipping Point' for Smart Buildings
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April 02, 2013

IDC Report: 2013 Will Be 'Tipping Point' for Smart Buildings

By Cheryl Kaften
TMCnet Contributor

Fifty percent of building owners recently surveyed by Framingham, Massachusetts-based IDC (News - Alert) Energy Insights said they already use smart building technologies—and another 33 percent told researchers that they plan to adopt advanced energy management solutions within the next six to 12 months.


Moreover, survey respondents to the poll, “Why 2013 Will Be the Tipping Point for Smart Building Technology Adoption," indicated an average spending increase of 18 percent since 2011 for solutions in the top thee smart building solution categories: HVAC controls, lighting controls, and analytics/data management.

To compile the report, IDC Energy Insights surveyed 291 building owners regarding their perspectives on smart building technologies. Fifty-seven percent of the respondents reported that their companies currently have sustainability goals that they are striving to reach. Of these respondents, 86 percent use efficiency or energy management as a metric for success in reaching these goals.

According to the Spicewood, Texas-based Smart Buildings Institute (SBI)— a not-for-profit corporation that facilitates the growth and understanding of smarter building and building operations through evaluation and certification of individual structures—a smart design enhances the performance and ease of operation of a building over its life-cycle. The primary goal for a higher performing building is to minimize the long-term costs of facility ownership to owners, occupants and the environment.   

“In a higher-performing building, all components of the building are integrated in order to work together,” according to SBI. “This improves operational performance, increases occupant comfort and satisfaction; and provides the owner with systems, technologies and tools to manage and minimize energy consumption.”

Among the buildings certified by SBI is the Ministry of Higher Education, Administrative Headquarters, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia—which features:

  • Open protocols and standards to enable communication among devices from different manufacturers;
  • Single and remote operation of lighting systems;
  • Real-time system error reporting;
  • Use of digital signage in a notification system for events, fire alarms, weather and news;
  • Prayer applications delivered over IPTV (News - Alert), which reminds users of the next prayer time;
  • Decreased plug load with 80 percent power-over-Ethernet (PoE)- powered devices;
  • Utilization systems for energy and facility management;
  • Monitoring of contaminants for health and safety;
  • Biometric security;
  • Building, space, and vertical access by occupant profile for better security; and
  • Temperature and lighting sensors. 

Our real estate solutions strategy is transformative and enables students, faculty and staff to adopt different ways to communicate, access information and deliver campus services. Our approach to smarter building utilization will boost user productivity, occupant comfort and safety, and increase the building performance and reliability,” commented MOHE Deputy Minister Dr. Ali bin Suleiman Al-Attiyah.




Edited by Brooke Neuman


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