Benefits
What are the benefits of a digital building?
The digital building infrastructure offers considerable cost savings
A single cabling network requires less configuration, and costs less to maintain
You’ll deal with, and pay, fewer maintenance companies
Future requirements are simply catered for as the flexibility of a universal cabling network facilitates easier and less costly add-ons, and changes
Benefits
Operational costs are lower in a digital building. Building control, management, and security are simplified with a unified system and require less financial expenditure. And the infrastructure is also extremely energy efficient. Lower operational costs come from using low-voltage PoE to power the network, and the system adjusts to changing conditions to use only what the facility needs at each moment. Energy consumption can lower by up to 50%.
Flexibility and ease-of-use
The fully integrated structure of a digital building eliminates the complexity of siloed systems. Your different platforms and building networks can be reduced into a simple design that is operated from one hub.
The single hub also means that you have easy visibility into the health and performance of your building without having to inspect each individual system manually every day.
The universal cabling network is also much simpler to alter, if and when your requirements change. Add-ons and changes can be easily accommodated.
User experience
Physical comfort makes a major difference to employee job satisfaction. With the digital building system, employees can customise their workspace environment with personal settings for office temperature, ventilation, light colour, and light intensity. If required, they can have those pre-programmed settings follow them when they move to different spaces within the building.
This ability to personalise the physical environment improves overall employee engagement and retention. It also enhances employee health and wellbeing, resulting in fewer costly sick days. Employee productivity has been shown to improve by up to 18% in a digital building as a result of improved comfort, air quality, and lighting.
Improved security
One unified system is less vulnerable to attack than several disparate networks. With a digital building you have only one network to secure—think of it as having one big door to lock rather than multiple smaller ones. Like a computer, each luminaire has a unique IP address and can be individually monitored and managed so your risk of a security breach is greatly reduced.
Better for the environment
An efficient digital building system uses only what the facility needs at each moment, and can lower energy consumption by up to 50%. This is not only good for financial saving but is considerably more environmentally friendly. Advanced sensor capabilities such as people counting, occupancy, daylight and temperature mean that much greater efficiencies can be made in heating, lighting and powering only the areas in use.