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.

NETWORK LAYER

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.

DEVICE LAYER

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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GRID & MARKET LAYER

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.

APPLICATION LAYER

The Application Layer sits “on top” of the data layer and provides outcomes to users through mobile apps, web apps, or process-based applications.

DATA LAYER

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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