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Digital Building:
More Convenience, Fewer Costs,
Diminished Resource Requirements
Buildings should be the perfect place to live, work, learn, play and of course shop.
The industry is constantly striving to further perfect them. The latest trend focuses on networking
building automation components entirely with one another. The journey to achieve
this goal takes in both cabling and digitalization. A journey we are just embarking on.
One cable for electricity. One cable for the
phone. One coax line for the TV. Perhaps a
few cables for smoke alarms and to control
the air-conditioning. In former decades,
that was all you needed in terms of building
infrastructure. Then came IT networks in
large office buildings. The infrastructure they
each needed was planned and set up independently
of one another. Their development
was not coordinated and their digitalization
also took place independently from one
another. The networking of these different
systems is still an additional function level
which has to be executed separately – and
which is correspondingly time-consuming.
Today, modern buildings are full of electronics,
cabling, sensors and all kinds of controls. An
inconceivable number of systems is installed
from the front door to the attic windows.
To be able to control and use buildings in
the best possible way, the best idea would
be for these systems to be networked with
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