The built environment accounts for a huge share of global carbon emissions – 34% at the UNEP's latest reckoning – yet the technology needed to manage it more efficiently has long been held back by incompatible systems and siloed data.
Lighting, heating and security controls from different manufacturers rarely communicate with one another, leaving facility managers unable to monitor or optimise energy performance from a single point of control.
A new partnership between Schneider Electric and Samsung sets out to change that, bringing Schneider's SpaceLogic KNX building automation portfolio into direct compatibility with Samsung's SmartThings and SmartThings Pro platforms.
For facility managers that oversee multiple buildings and sites, the inability to consolidate controls has long led to inefficiency.
Separate dashboards for different systems can make it difficult to identify where energy is being wasted or to act on that information quickly.
