Problems & Solutions

For building owners operations represent over 70% of the total cost of a building over its lifespan. By 2025, buildings will be the #1 consumer of energy. Up to 50% of energy and water in buildings is wasted. If we could focus on increasing building efficiency we would see a different picture:

• Energy usage reduced by up to 40%
• Maintenance costs down by 10-30%
• Employee productivity increased by up to 18%

The use of technology to solve these problems has been very slow to evolve. Now, leveraging over 20 years of experience in hardware and software, Go-IoT have designed a product range capable of creating an eco-system that addresses the needs of building owners, building management system integrators and buildings operations for both new and existing developments. This eco-system can automatically monitor doors, rooms, hallways, passageways, plant rooms, elevator/lifts, garages etc for temperature, humidity, CO2, air quality (AQI, VOC, etc.), occupancy, light level, open/closed door/windows, etc. It can process the data according to set rules or analyse trend data so that energy is conserved, wellfare is maintained, security is upheld, maintenance is scheduled or called upon on demand, warnings/alarms are sent/triggered. Furthermore for building owners with multiple sites, this can be amassed and controlled from a central operations point anywhere in the world. There really are no limits to the possibilities!

Go-IoT BACnet Sensor to Cloud – Cloud to Actuator

Industry Challenges

The slow evolution of building automation systems without standardisation has led to challenges. Today multiple incompatible communication protocols are used for Building Automation, including Modbus, M-Bus, LoRaWAN, Thread, BACnet etc. Configuration is therefore costly and time-consuming. Furthermore communicating data from the sensor and actuator to the Cloud has security risks and lacks standardisation.

Current Solutions

• Multiple gateways to map different communication protocols back and forth.
• Proprietary solutions, locking customers in with the solution vendor.
• Virtual Private Network (VPN) to solve cloud security.
• In-building protocol differs from cloud-protocol, resulting in long-winded complex configuration work.
• Cloud communication only subsets in-building BACnet communication. An example is MQTT.