Guides for Workplace Strategy and Management
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agilquest.com Smart Buildings Smart Buildings is a capability that can be added to intelligent building systems to drive operating costs down an additional 10% every year. AgilQuest's Smart Buildings technology shares the schedule of the actual occupants with the building systems which provide lighting, HVAC, and electricity so those critical services can remain off or in standby in the parts of the building that are not occupied at the moment. Armed with the actual presence and schedule of the people who need the building to support their work, the intelligent building systems can manage every area of the building with precision and granularity. This capability compliments Smart Occupancy and the resulting Smart Occupancy + Smart Buildings approach provides the highest levels of energy efficiency and the lowest operating costs possible. • Track occupants' presence and schedule day-by-day and hour-by-hour • Communicate occupant need (presence and schedule) with intelligent building systems • Automatically manage lighting, HVAC, and power down to the floor, desk, pod and hour by hour • Interact with occupants to provide a rich and friendly experience within the building Example: GSA connected AgilQuest OnBoard desk and meeting room reservation system to the building's access control and intelligent service systems. When people arrive at the building to use a desk for the day or head toward a room for a meeting, necessary services are turned on only in those areas and only for the time actually needed. In a building designed for 2200 seats, GSA implemented Smart Buildings and now saves $7 million annually in reduced energy consumption as a result of managing lighting, HVAC, and electricity down to just the desks, rooms and areas actually occupied at any given moment. Example: GSA connected AgilQuest OnBoard desk and meeting room reservation system to the building's access control and intelligent service systems. When people arrive at the building to use a desk for the day or head toward a room for a meeting, necessary services are turned on only in those areas and only for the time actually needed. In a building designed for 2200 seats, GSA implemented Smart Buildings and now saves $7 million annually in reduced energy consumption as a result of managing lighting, HVAC, and electricity down to just the desks, rooms and areas actually occupied at any given moment. "Approaches that aim to make the existing building more efficient, such as LEED, have very little net effect (single digit percentages) because they are making a building that is mostly unoccupied more efficient. Smart Occupancy + Smart Building drives the occupancy of the building down to only what is actually needed and only then makes the remaining space as efficient as possible. That's how you reach significant savings." – John Vivadelli, CEO, AgilQuest