Zumtobel and Bosch Software develop IoT solutions for smart building lighting

At first, These solutions are designed for the monitoring and management of spaces and have been implemented as a pilot project in the Austrian Life Cycle Tower building.. An installation that they have launched together with Dassault Systèmes and Modcam.

Zumtobel Group y Bosch Software Innovations have joined their technologies to develop IoT solutions aimed at lighting in commercial buildings. The objective is to achieve energy efficient environments.

Initially, the application areas on which remote control and space management of smart lighting for connected buildings will focus their efforts.

Given, that buildings are responsible for almost half of the world's energy consumption, lighting infrastructure will play a fundamental role in saving energy and costs. This is why according to the firm Memorize, specialized in Smart Building, for him 2020, most IoT device installations will be designed for lighting systems.

Lighting provides a dense network, inside and outside of buildings, whose elements are always connected to a power source. An infrastructure that can be very useful for collecting information and developing new solutions beyond the lighting system..

“Boch expertise key to ambitious Zumtobel-related construction projects. Connectivity allows the vision of real data in commercial buildings, “vision that is the basis for new value-added services in the areas of predictive maintenance and facility control”, explica Rainer Kallenbach, CEO de Bosch Software Innovations.

Life Cycle Tower

The first pilot project resulting from this collaboration between Zumtobel Group Bosch Software Innovations has been carried out in the Life Cycle Tower building, Located in the Austrian city of Dornbirn, and companies have also participated Dassault Systèmes y I love it.

The Life Cycle Tower is owned by Rhomberg Group and has been designed with sustainability standards in mind, an icon that marks the future of urban architecture.

This modern building has been equipped with a Zumtobel lighting solution that includes a control system and provides a real-time overview of the building's status and technical specifications., reduces energy costs and increases efficiency. Covers areas such as energy use and savings per luminaire, per floor or for the entire building, with data visualizations of presence and use of spaces. A heat map shows the occupancy of a space to help optimize usage efficiency.

On the maintenance side, provides notifications of failing luminaires and provides information on operating hours and usage history of the lighting system. This helps optimize light settings.

“This pilot project informs our tenants on how to save on energy and maintenance costs, in addition to showing how to better use office space and optimize the user experience in this building”, comments Hubert Rhomberg, CEO of Rhomberg Group.

This project is being presented at the fair Light+Building which is taking place in Frankfurt (GermanyI until 18 March.