How can technology achieve energy efficiency in smart buildings?

With rising energy costs and an increased focus on sustainable building solutions, it is vital that smart buildings are as energy efficient as possible to benefit both building owners and the planet.
Why are energy efficient buildings important?
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), buildings are responsible for almost one third of global energy consumption. This is why promoting energy efficient buildings is so vital to effectively reduce carbon emissions and make a significant impact on the future of the built environment.
As smart technology evolves, it is critical that the industry takes advantage of this technology to future-proof buildings and put into place more sustainable processes.

How are smart buildings more energy efficient?

Through automated systems, sensors, monitoring, and data analytics, smart buildings can be set up to react to their environment to use energy as efficiently as possible. By providing building managers with a collection of data from different building management systems all in one place in real-time, it allows them to react to updates in building occupancy and environment to ensure energy is being used as efficiently as possible.

Sensors can alert to the changing occupancy in a room so that heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems can act more efficiently to provide optimum air quality and temperature.

Lighting has a huge consumption of energy in buildings, therefore smart lighting systems allow building managers to optimise the lighting of the building. With occupancy sensors lights can be set to dim or switch off automatically when areas are not being used. Lighting can also be programmed to automatically respond to daylight for an efficient output and determine the optimal use of energy at certain times of the day.

Real time data can alert building managers to potential issues so that they can be amended instantly, preventing any waste of energy. Data analytics can be used to create forecasts to optimise how buildings are used in terms of occupancy and energy usage.

What are the benefits of smart buildings?

·       Reduce energy costs for building owners and managers.

·       Lower carbon emissions, enabling buildings to meet sustainability goals and legislation.

·       Provide real-time data to give building managers instant access to controls.

·       Provide stakeholders and investors with up-to-date insights on performance to improve strategies for the future to save on energy usage and costs.

·       Increase user experience to ensure that lighting, temperature and air quality are all at the right level to promote comfort.

How can amBX solutions help?

We enable smart buildings with our control software and create interoperable solutions that connect building services for smart building solutions. Through connecting various systems and devices within buildings, collecting and aggregating data and creating custom dashboards, data can be utilised in real-time.

SmartCore - Our smart lighting control platform brings all the lighting sensor and data management functionality demanded by smart buildings together.

UI Products - Our SmartCore software also powers a range of UI products, including Emergency Lighting Control, Circadian Lighting and Facility Manager Tools.

ESG Simulator – Physical spaces can be replicated in the virtual world. Lighting energy usage data can be simulated and role-played to gain an understanding of the best energy strategy for your smart building before applying it to the physical asset.

Our digital twin architecture can deliver current usage values, energy, efficiency, and carbon emissions for lighting to support a detailed ESG report