{"id":30776,"date":"2019-12-09T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=30776"},"modified":"2019-12-09T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:58:35","slug":"how-will-smart-buildings-help-solve-today-and-tomorrows-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/12\/09\/how-will-smart-buildings-help-solve-today-and-tomorrows-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"How will smart buildings help solve today and tomorrow\u2019s challenges?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Arafat Yousef, Managing Director \u2013 Middle East and Africa, Nexans Cabling Solutions, says to make a building \u2018smart\u2019 an integrated approach to structured cabling and devices is required. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Providing a\nfoundation with FTTO<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

What is\nBuilding Intelligence?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

An Intelligent Building relies on technology to\ncreate an environment that is safer, more productive and easier to manage in an\nefficient and cost-effective way. According to the Chartered Institution of\nBuilding Services Engineers (CIBSE): \u201cIntelligent Buildings help building\nowners, property managers and occupants realise their goals in the areas of\ncosts, lifetime energy management, well-being, convenience, safety, long term\nflexibility and marketability to achieve buildings which have high social, environmental\nand economic values.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which benefits\ncan Intelligent Buildings bring?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Fast\nand reliable Internet connections and optimised controlling heating,\nventilation, aircon and lighting make an important contribution to employee\nwellbeing and happiness. Smart buildings help ensure occupants\u2019 safety with\nconnected alarm systems and IP cameras. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore,\nPower over Ethernet allows the introduction of smart LED lighting powered over\nthe network connection. Current LED systems can save up to 80% energy compared\nto legacy lighting systems. Introducing sensors makes lighting and space usage\neven more efficient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smart\nlighting with built-in occupancy and ambient light sensors that can change the\nlight over the course of the day also help increase employee productivity.\nIntelligent Buildings can also reduce energy and water consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The convergence of networks that comes with creating\nintelligent building networks means IT and facilities management teams need to\nwork together in entirely new ways. Rethinking\nbasic infrastructure is essential. What’s more,\nhistorically, field bus components and IT have always been regarded as two\ncompletely separate things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, when making a building \u2018smart\u2019, it is vital that all platforms and components can communicate in a unified manner and act as an integrated whole. That requires a common language and an integrated approach to structured cabling and devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By introducing a cross-platform, fully integrated \u2018central\nnervous system\u2019 in a building, or even between buildings, investment and\noperational costs can be reduced and implementation and maintenance can be\nsimplified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why choose\nFTTO?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This solution combines the benefits of both copper\nand fibre to provide a future-proof solution with high bandwidth\nand minimum energy use. FTTO is\nespecially suitable for Intelligent Building environments as they feature a high number of ports in large buildings or across\nmultiple buildings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution not only supports standard point-to-point\ntopologies but also cascading of systems. Design can be flexibly based on\nproject requirements. Redundancy can be designed-in at the access level in a\ncost-effective way by linking each network path. In a traditional LAN design,\nthis would be extremely costly, but FTTO can provide significant cost benefits\nin situations where large areas need to be covered or building usage\nrequirements impose specific restrictions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With no energy-hungry floor distributors and technical\nservice rooms and support for energy-saving features, FTTO could be considered\nthe most sustainable solution in terms of CO2 footprint, waste and energy\nconsumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supporting\ngrowing demand for Intelligent Buildings<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

FTTO combines passive fibre cabling and active switches to\nprovide Gigabit Ethernet services from a central core switch to an FTTO switch\nand from there to the end-user devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The excellent performance and simplicity of the concept\nbrings savings by reducing complexity and enabling faster and easier rollout,\nmaintenance and expansion. The scalability of the system allows you to expand\nas you grow, ensuring expenditure is always in line with current requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FTTO eliminates the need for floor distributors, separate\nfibre backbone, active equipment, patch panels and racks, as well as large\nvolumes of horizontal copper cabling. A significant advantage in an environment\nwhere every square metre counts. Increasing demand from the market for more\nsustainable and low-carbon buildings will only serve to sustain the demand for\nIntelligent Buildings in the years to come and FTTO can play a key role in\nmeeting that demand and facilitating the energy saving, efficiency-enhancing\ninnovations of today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arafat Yousef, Managing Director \u2013 Middle East and Africa, Nexans Cabling Solutions, says to make a building \u2018smart\u2019 an integrated approach to structured cabling and devices is required. Providing a foundation with FTTO What is Building Intelligence? An Intelligent Building relies on technology to create an environment that is safer, more productive and easier to manage in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":30785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,399,269],"tags":[385,10853,106,11978,406,108,1666,2346],"class_list":["post-30776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cabling","category-more-news","category-trade-logistics","tag-africa","tag-arafat-yousef","tag-cabling-2","tag-ftto","tag-middle-east","tag-nexans","tag-nexans-cabling-solutions","tag-smart-buildings"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30780,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30776\/revisions\/30780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}