SomeĬompanies need only a little push – the know-how to incorporate weather data, orĮnergy meters, or perhaps just the right connections. Smith says these partners and vendors are eager to help businesses of every size, shape,Īnd need to take their buildings from piles of bricks to data-driven brains.
His team developed the smart buildings software, with the help of vendors,Įxclusively with off-the-shelf Microsoft software such as Windows Azure, SQL Server and Smith’s plan to take Microsoft’s smart buildings software worldwide is to adopt the role To the buildings, generating data, and grouping inefficiencies by cost and priority,Īll of a sudden you go from the sledgehammer to running buildings with laser precision.” “What Darrell and his team canĭo is watch their buildings at a rate no human has before. That they’re running with sledgehammers,” Young says. “Companies, even a lot of Fortune 500 companies, have these massive real estate portfolios Young has traveled all over the globe for more than a decade, visiting and studying all manner Says Jim Young, CEO of the commercial real estate and information technology company How much money and energy businesses can save with relatively little up-front investment, Probably the most important take-away from Microsoft’s smart buildings breakthrough is just “There areĪ lot of lessons to be learned (in what Microsoft created).” “It’s one of the more sophisticated implementations that I’ve seen,” she says. Says deserves to be held up as a best practice in the industry. The paper investigates and evaluates Microsoft’s smart building tool, which Granderson Granderson contributed to a white paper on Microsoft’s new software, “ Energy-Smart Buildings: Demonstrating how information technology can cut energy use and costs of real estate portfolios.” Your browser does not support the video element.
Quickly realize the challenges of getting what you really need and want,” sheĪnother challenge is having the right people in place to analyze and interpret the Is that once we do become in the habit of making use of what’s there, then you Put to good use, and businesses that aren’t using it. There’s data that is out there that’s not Granderson says it’s still not as easy as it should be to get data out of today’s Industry is reaching a major tipping point as people realize the power of capturing Granderson, whose research focuses on intelligent lighting controls and buildingĮnergy performance monitoring and diagnostics, says the commercial real estate Industry is going through a “time of rapid change and maturation.” She says smart buildings are becoming more prevalent, and the commercial real estate
Jessica Granderson, a commercial building and lighting research scientist at Lawrence Microsoft’s campus went from bricks to brains, and Smith believes all commercial buildings We want to get buildings to where phones are.” Short years, they have advanced to become a laptop in your hand,” Smith says. “At first, all mobile phones were bricks – basically two-way radios. That brick with an antenna that Douglas is holding? That is the current state of commercial Twenty-six years later, the scene feels dated – solely for technology On the phone on the beach demonstrated the high-tech fruits of a stock broker's It was one of the first times a mobile phone appeared in a movie, and at the time talking Hair slick and wearing a black bathrobe, barking orders to his protégé viaĪ brick-sized cell phone as the waves crash behind him.
In one memorable scene from the 1987 movie Wall Street, Michael Douglas stands on a beach,