This report from Siemens Industry, Inc. was published in April 2021. Buildings and facilities could still benefit from even greater measures of openness to ease integration challenges, some quite costly. The authors report that 82 percent of decision-makers confirm that building automation is important or very important – and 64 percent plan investments in integration solutions in the next year. But 30 percent of system integrators estimate they lose up to $1 million a year due to integration-related issues, resulting in them turning to open-source data-integration tools. This report describes the Desigo Optic program for better optimization of a structure’s performance without making its operation too complex to manage. The program also helps in the management of the data that must be stored in a BMS and most importantly, in deriving insights that can drive greater operational efficiencies.
Key words: Architecture/Engineering, Cloud & Data Analytics, Data Networking, Energy Management, HVAC, Intelligent Building, Internet of Things (IoT), Large Building Controls/Automation, Property Management, Protocols/Standards