For building owners and the contractors and maintenance teams who carry out day-to-day operations and upkeep, commercial IoT means more data, more uses for that data, and more visibility into what’s working and what’s not. It allows for more proactive maintenance, as well as quicker access to new technology.
“Buildings are the next big frontier for IoT and data,” said Sudhi Sinha, vice president and general manager, data-enabled business, Johnson Controls Inc. “For example, approximately 500 million tweets are sent every day. We see a tremendous amount of data being created by building systems from a few thousand buildings during that same time frame of tweets. Johnson Controls has about 5,000 connected buildings (small, medium, and large buildings), and we are connecting 175 million records from those buildings today.”