Do you know how to distinguish between a "classic" building and an "intelligent" building?
The key lies in data exploitation.
Digital transformation has a major impact on the building sector, which faces many challenges, particularly in terms of data collection and high-value-added service development. On one hand, we want to improve occupant comfort in our buildings, and on the other we want to facilitate life for real estate directions and facility managers.
Buildings are already generous with data but this data is heterogeneous and comes from multiple field sources, whether BMS, HVAC, security systems or IoT data. Room temperature readings, electricity consumption analysis, air quality analysis, leak detection, access control etc., everything finally seems ready for a digital revolution!
Well, not quite.
Too often, this data remains unexploited. The cause? It's communicated via different languages (field buses, wireless networks, computer buses, etc.), which complicate their processing and exchange. It's as if you found yourself discussing with someone who doesn't speak the same language as you. Difficult to communicate without a translator, right? It's somewhat the same thing here.
However, this data has real value in building management to transform their lifecycle. It has immense potential in terms of energy efficiency, cost reduction and comfort improvement. When it's currently possible to deploy 10 service applications, it would be possible to develop 100 times more thanks to better accessibility and efficient processing. The challenge is therefore to create a real service platform for building managers: hypervision, space optimization, predictive maintenance, energy efficiency etc. But also for occupants: room reservation, office comfort management etc.
The Building Operating System: connecting equipment to applications
How can we facilitate and accelerate access to new applications and erase field complexity? How can we break the silos on which this equipment rests?
This is where the Building Operating System comes into play. The BOS is the connection bridge between building equipment and applications that building managers and occupants will use. A true interoperability brick at the heart of the building, the BOS is what we call a "middleware" software platform. It will collect all building data (internal or external), centralize, unify and enrich it in a unique repository to send it in the right format to any application that would need it. It can be maintenance, operation or usage applications to facilitate their understanding.
By playing the role of translator over time, information flow management is simplified between systems because there will no longer be a specific repository for each system but a unique repository shared by all systems.
An open and scalable platform
This open and scalable platform makes data accessible to business application developers: Hypervision, energy efficiency, space management, predictive maintenance etc. and integrates data from external applications (BIM, CMMS, security systems, CMMS etc.) via secure APIs. More than a data management platform that connects equipment or pools data, the BOS is also an application development platform that will facilitate deploying a large volume of applications.
The BOS: the iOS of Smart Buildings
Today, the ingredient necessary for Smart Building, like iOS with Apple or Android with Google, is its operating system: the Building OS. It connects equipment to service applications like iOS connects headphones to Spotify, Deezer or YouTube applications.
Because it's indeed the OS, the operating system, that transformed a phone into a smartphone, it will be the BOS that transforms a building into a smart building!
Sensinov offers you to apply your own strategy to your buildings. Our solutions meet the challenges of openness, interoperability and are 100% in line with new standards (R2S Label, BACS decree, tertiary decree). The Sensinov BOS supports building professionals in their daily activities on several subjects including Hypervision and building supervision, equipment control and energy consumption optimization.
