Video Presentations: IoT-Enabled Design: Tracking Key Performance Data with SMART Technology

Shonn Mills
Managing Director
Whitby Wood Mills, Singapore

Buildings are the world’s largest asset class, and yet we have few tools to measure how they perform for their owners and their users. This evident lack is driving a push within the AEC industry to collect and analyze performance data on physical space. SMART technology, IoT and sensors are accelerating these capabilities and promise to have profound effects on building design. As our experience of the built environment becomes more integrated with digital data, how will this affect design and development? In the post-pandemic reality building owners need solutions that provide data to inform decisions to adapt and continue to perform.
While the building sector represents 40 percent of total CO2 emissions, new construction represents only about three percent of the overall building floorspace, meaning that most opportunities to improve efficiency and performances offered by SMART technology rests in our existing building stock.

A new service developed in partnership by GXN/Ramboll Group is highlighted, which utilizes the deployment of IoT devices in existing buildings to provide real time feedback on occupancy and performance. The service’s key focus is to provide insight to improve spatial and energy-efficiency, and improve the comfort and productivity of the building users. The proposed methodology employs a low-cost wireless independent sensor network to measure key performance indicators such as lighting, temperature, and occupancy. This data is used to inform low-cost efficient interventions that maximize value for the building owner and occupant.