AI is everywhere. Isn’t it time it’s in our buildings too?
Automobiles, GPS, gaming, social media, cybersecurity, facial recognition — these days, AI is everywhere, making our lives more comfortable, efficient, safer, and even fun. Yet the spaces in which we live and work have been slow to embrace the incredible potential of AI. That’s because even with significant energy savings and increases in comfort at stake, there hasn’t been an easily upscaled solution that’s capable of handling complex buildings and the enormous amount of data they produce. Until now. Until we had Building X.
Building X is part of Siemens Xcelerator, a brand new open digital business platform that accelerates the digital transformation needed by modern infrastructure with a solution that brings critical digitization components together: service providers, software partners, hardware, technical governance, and interoperable solutions.?
?It’s within this uniquely holistic open platform of data-driven applications that Building X operates, utilizing a range of connectivity options capable of extracting a continuous and changing flow of data. This includes information from a variety of sources, including daily operations and activities, as well as one-time events like construction or maintenance.?The result? A single source of truth for today’s digital buildings, and an incredible opportunity to use AI to elevate the spaces we spend our time in.
Turning building data into actionable insights is where Building X comes into play. Today, experts are needed to crunch through an endless stream of data, graphs, and calculations, which slows decisions and limits impact. Building X uses domain-tailored, user-facing applications to manage this complexity. Users are then able to enrich these applications with AI-driven algorithms like forecasting or anomaly detection to generate key insights. Optimization algorithms can even make buildings autonomous, i.e., self-learning and self-adaptive with little human intervention.
?The world has shown that it’s ready for AI and all the advances it can bring in safety, comfort, efficiency, and, ultimately, our carbon footprint. Stay tuned as Building X answers this call and helps customers create the smart buildings of the future. ?