While many existing buildings are being retro-fitted with smart technology (e.g. Bluetooth-integrated lighting), the next generation of smart buildings will take smart campuses to a new level. According to the Construction Leadership Council, “smart construction is building design, construction and operation that through collaborative partnerships makes full use of digital technologies and industrialized manufacturing techniques to improve productivity, minimize whole life cost, improve sustainability and maximize user benefits.”
During the design of the building, core systems like lighting, power meters, water meters, pumps, heating, fire alarms, and elevators can be part of the system. The smart building movement began as a green initiative and is now growing faster than conventional construction, according to Mahesh Ramanujam, president and CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council, which administers the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications worldwide.
In addition, for large campuses with a large number of employees and visitors, integrating map-based applications in the smart construction can be used to help people visualize their location and easily find desired destinations. Real-time, detailed, step-by-step directions help them find the most efficient route to get them where they are going.
Locate Solutions’ CampuSMART™ helps people navigate to and through your campus, find/reserve available rooms, and even share their location with others. Many resorts, convention centers, corporate campuses and hospitals have visitors that get lost. People’s ability to navigate to and through your complex campus is the first and last impression they will have of your organization for each encounter. Our proprietary positioning system delivers a scalable, agile, cloud-based platform addressing client requirements for indoor/outdoor navigation, location sharing, geofencing, asset tracking, personnel and space management, proximity messaging and analytics. Our customers consider this not only invaluable, but just plain SMART!