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1. SERVICE PROVIDERS
DECARBONIZATION
MASTER SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR
COMMISSIONING AGENT
DESIGN
NETWORK MANAGER
The specialist roles needed to make smart buildings successful. More and more building owners are recognizing the importance of having specialist roles either on their staff or outsourced as members of their team of service providers.
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5. NETWORK LAYER
NETWORKING DEVICES & SOFTWARE
We need a dedicated layer with its own hardware, software, standard operating procedures, and key stakeholders who take responsibility for doing it right. It should be converged, monitored, maintained, and have redundancy. These vendors provide hardware and software to enable that.
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6. DEVICE LAYER
OTHER IOT
METERING
ACCESS CONTROL
HVAC CONTROL FOR <100,000 SQFT
VIDEO CAMERAS
IAQ
OCCUPANCY COUNTING
HVAC CONTROL
LEAK DETECTION
LIGHTING CONTROL
Siloed systems—each with their unique purpose, inputs & outputs, key stakeholders, and life safety functions. Each with their separate stacks, including networking, asset registers, data models, data storage, user interface, and devices.
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2. GRID & MARKET LAYER
VIRTUAL POWER PLANT / AGGREGATOR
EFFICIENCY AS A SERVICE
Buildings will interact with the electric grid and third-party markets to capture the value of their demand flexibility and carbon emissions reductions. The sellers in this category are the aggregators, virtual power plants, and marketplaces that facilitate these transactions.
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3. APPLICATION LAYER
AUDITS & RETROFITS
ENERGY & ESG
SPACE MANAGEMENT / IWMS
ASSET MGMT
SUPERVISORY CONTROL
TENANT APP
CARBON ACCOUNTING
FAULT DETECTION & DIAGNOSTICS
The Application Layer sits “on top” of the data layer and provides outcomes to users through mobile apps, web apps, or process-based applications.
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4. DATA LAYER
DATA LAYER - INDEPENDENT
DATA LAYER - COUPLED W/ APPLICATIONS
ONTOLOGY - STANDARD
The data layer centralizes, normalizes, and models data from devices for use by applications. There are two types of data layer providers: coupled with applications and independent from applications (IDL).
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