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FUTURE WORKPLACES In collaboration with Bentley Systems and Schneider Electric, Microsoft has rolled out a digital twin of its new regional headquarters at Frasers Tower in Singapore, offering a living blueprint for the future of smart buildings. Data acquisition and utilisation At the Microsoft offices in Frasers Tower, data is collected using a mix of 179 Bluetooth beacons in meeting rooms and 900 sensors for lighting, air quality and temperature from Schneider Electric. The platform generates nearly 2,100 data points that are connected to the cloud on Microsoft Azure, enabling the holistic management of the environment. The sensors enable monitoring of facilities usage, energy and utilities. They optimise space utilisation, air conditioning and lighting adjustments. All these provide a comfortable and productive space for employees, while increasing overall energy efficiency. Open, interoperable technology also allows activity detection enabled lighting and room sensors to reflect room bookings on Microsoft’s Smart Building CampusLink app.
Facilities can function optimally and sustainably, with the help of sensors, IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence).
Employees and staff use Smart Building CampusLink, an application that is fully integrated with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office 365, taking navigation to the next level by enabling employees to find directions, determine room occupancy and book facilities in real-time. Built on Azure App Services and powered by Azure Data Lake and Office 365 Graph API, Microsoft’s Powered by the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft has developed a virtual digital twin model of its regional headquarters in Asia offices at Frasers Tower in Singapore. Pacific is the first Microsoft office outside of Redmond, Washing“Smart sensors allow us to collect meaningful data in ton, USA, to implement Smart Building CampusLink. real-time, which enables us to optimise various asThe sensors could potentially also monitor carbon dioxpects of our spaces, making them more comfortable, ide levels in the air, that negatively affect work perforwhile reducing energy consumption in a sustainable mance and neural activity, noise levels and energy usage, and economical manner. Our partnership with Micwhich can result in savings of up to 25%, as experienced rosoft offers a real model on how connected devices at Microsoft’s Headquarters located in Redmond. combined with contextualised sensor processing can 38
THE SINGAPORE ENGINEER April 2020
