Intelligent Buildings

Intelligent building solutions bring together four key elements:

• building management systems
  
• data communications
  
• telecommunications
  
• Wireless Systems

- and then deliver them across a single common infrastructure or platform. This converged view of information systems means that they can be regarded as the fourth utility - as essential to the everyday activities and operation of an organisation as the more traditional utilities, such as water and electricity.

In fact, intelligent building systems are just taking advantage of the natural evolution of voice, data and building control technologies. Over the past few years they have all been moving, albeit independently and at different speeds, towards the use of IP (internet protocol) as the most realistic platform for their delivery. And now, property development organisations have the opportunity to exploit the potential benefits offered by this wholesale convergence on IP.