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connecting people, places and things is complex
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so what does it mean to be connected?
People
People
People
CRE buildings are inhabited by a host of occupiers, visitors, vendors and facility managers - each with different connectivity needs.
To optimize their experience, the SMART building must provide optimized multi-technology connectivity:
- coverage and ease of use
- high speeds & low latency
- mission critical availability
- security
The options are numerous and the consequences of failing to integrate them has never been higher.
Places
People
People
Uber demonstrated the power of mapping location with people and things.
Is it possible to know where everything in your CRE is located? YES!
Establish a precision digital map of the inside of your buildings and Uber-like innovation become possible. But did you know that it is enabled or blocked by your network choices?
Every enterprise vertical market will exploit location service to improve their productivity and customer experience.
This capability should be core to an in-building connectivity solution.
Things
People
Things
IoT is transforming CRE in spectatular ways. Everything imaginable is being equipped with connectivity and then generating time sensitive, priceless data.
This data is the new 'oil'.
Billions of new IoT devices have and will continue to come online, each seeking a connection.
Every legacy network will swamp under the assault of new IoT devices.
Smart buildings are 'learning buildings' and learning is enabled by connectivity.
Fast. Secure. Available.
TECHNOLOGY - more choices and complexity than ever
5G
Fiber Optics
WiFi
The vast majority of cellular traffic originates indoors, where coverage is most challenged. 5G will stitch together low-band, mid-band and nanometer high band to bring more capacity and speed. RF propagation indoors, particularly at the higher bands requires careful engineering.
No longer the exclusive domain of the cell carriers, private systems are now possible in a variety of consumption models.
5G is a game changer.
WiFi
Fiber Optics
WiFi
Thanks to democratized spectrum, WIFI is ubiquitous and innovating.
WIFI 6 is here and WIFI 6e is coming.
With it comes higher speeds, more spectrum, capacity, improved security and economics.
WIFI is an integral part of any SMART building.
Fiber Optics
Fiber Optics
Fiber Optics
Fiber is the undisputed champion of the speed and capacity game. Fiber to the building enables many things. Fiber to the device extends the benefits to the last inch.
Demand for bandwidth continues to double every 12-18 months.
It is no longer adequate to have fiber to the basement then copper cabling to the last inch.
It is time for Fiber Deep.
Cabling
Cyber Security
Fiber Optics
Most enterprise buildings are crammed full of obsolete and disaggregated twisted pair and Ethernet copper cabling.
Building vertical risers and lateral cable systems have become precious real estate.
It is time to reimagine this real estate as a critical digital asset and make it an INTEGRATED communication bus.
Ideally, fiber carrying IP traffic.
Public Safety
Cyber Security
Cyber Security
9/11 and other world events have demonstrated the critical importance of first responder communications.
It is time to integrate vital facility and location data into a more comprehensive solution. For example, can your campus describe where your people, places and things are? How about the air molecules?
Lives are at stake and municipalities are rewriting building code.
Cyber Security
Cyber Security
Cyber Security
With hyper-sophisticated, and in some cases, government sponsored cyber crime in the headlines, any PropTech or network solution must carefully consider how trust is established and maintained.
Billions of new IoT devices are coming online every day. They will shepherd breathtaking innovation but are they secure?
Establishing and maintaining trust in realtime requires specialized experts.
BLUETOOTH
GIS and indoor Mapping
GIS and indoor Mapping
Not just for personal use, Bluetooth 5.0 has innovative commercial uses that must be considered. The classic technology is mostly point to point. However, Bluetooth LE has application in asset tracking and as the basis for indoor location service.
It is easy and incremental to add to a future proofed building or campus network.
Inventory and asset tracking are a couple of compelling use cases.
GIS and indoor Mapping
GIS and indoor Mapping
GIS and indoor Mapping
GPS based location and navigation are everywhere, except indoors.
Most CRE relies on paper records and tribal knowledge to understand the building in 3D.
Thanks to GIS and new mapping technology, it is now possible to create a digital twin of a building in short order and cost efficiently.
Once created, the possibilities to use the data for asset tracking and location services are limitless.
Low Power WAN
GIS and indoor Mapping
Low Power WAN
Optimal for certain machine to machine IoT applications, LPWAN employs reduced data payloads coupled with ultra low power consumption to create a network.
There are many competing protocols and solutions including Sigfox, LoRa and NB-IoT.
It is a terrific solution in specific use cases like industrial IoT and Smart metering applications that operate on batteries and generate small data volumes.