Building Smart Facilities: Insights From Workplace Unplugged
The article highlights insights from Workplace Unplugged interviews with Lindsay Baker, who emphasizes the importance of occupant thermal comfort through her app Comfy, and Michael Carne, who discusses the evolving role of sensor technology and IoT integration in smart building facilities management to enhance user experience and operational efficiency.
Software as a service has played a key role in evolving the landscape of the modern workplace. With the emergence of smart building technologies, the way we interact with our built environment is also beginning to change. Automation, data collection, and basic comforts can all be achieved with smart building tech. These two Workplace Unplugged interviews focus on the user experience of building occupants, as well as the essential metrics collection needed to efficiently run a facility.
First, Lindsay Baker discusses her thermal comfort app, and then the article considers the world of sensors with Michael Carne. Step into the world of smart building technology with Workplace Unplugged!
Getting Comfy with Smart Building Technology
Lindsay Baker, a technologist and pioneer in smart building technology and president of Comfy, shares her experience leading some of the most successful building initiatives in the country.
Lindsay Baker: The number one complaint that people have with their work environment is the temperature. As buildings get more complex and digital, a lot of the building industry assumed that would mean the occupants couldn’t possibly be involved in how the buildings are run, but we’re finding just the opposite…
Sensor Tech: Possibilities in Facilities Management
Technology is on the rise in facilities management, with sensors being one of the most intriguing developments. Used to monitor and measure activity, mitigate risk, and improve safety, sensors help facilities managers gain a greater understanding of what is happening within their building.
Michael Carne: At the moment, there is still a piecemeal approach to IoT being implemented throughout a property. The direction and future of IoT will be the ability for software not to care where the sensor came from but to listen to all sensors and integrate…