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Smart buildings & technical architecture

Smart Homes & Smart Offices

A technical architecture for smart homes and offices, built on stakeholder requirements, market research and a survey of prospective customers.

Client
Mixed-use real estate developer
Area
Smart home & office tech
Status
Requirements & architecture delivered
Practice
Digital Transformation Consultancy

The challenge

Our client wanted smart homes and smart offices in its mixed-use towers. First it needed to know what that should mean: which features its prospective customers want, which products the market can offer, and how the technology would work with the systems that run the buildings.

What we did

We helped the client create its requirements for smart home and office technology: every functional and non-functional requirement, analyzed and discussed in depth with all the stakeholders. We researched the products available on the market and surveyed the client’s prospective customers to understand their needs.

From research to architecture

  • Requirements: functional and non-functional, discussed in depth with every stakeholder.
  • Market research: the smart home and office products available.
  • Customer survey: what prospective customers need from a smart home or office.
  • Architecture: designed from the market and customer findings.

Built to integrate

The resulting technical architecture for smart homes and offices is designed to integrate easily with the complex’s building management system, its integrated command and control center and its facility management system.

Fig. 10 — From research to architectureSchematic
Stakeholder requirements, market research and a survey of prospective customers shape one technical architecture for smart homes and smart offices, designed to integrate with the building management system, the integrated command and control center and the facility management system. WHAT SHAPED IT THE ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATES WITH Stakeholder requirements Functional & non-functional Market research Products on the market Customer survey Prospective customers’ needs ONE ARCHITECTURE Smart homes Smart offices Grounded in research Market and customer findings Integration-ready Connects to building systems Building management BMS · building services Integrated command center ICCC · the whole complex Facility management FM · operations & maintenance

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What we delivered

Complete requirements

Functional and non-functional, discussed with every stakeholder.

Market research

The smart home and office products available, reviewed for the client.

Customer insight

A survey of what prospective customers need.

Ready to integrate

An architecture that connects to BMS, ICCC and facility management.

  • Requirements engineering
  • Functional & non-functional requirements
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Market research
  • Customer survey
  • Smart homes
  • Smart offices
  • Technical architecture
  • BMS, ICCC & FM integration

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