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ATEA, Stavanger, Norway
THE CHALLENGE: As a smart office solution showcase, Atea wanted its new building to be able to demonstrate to their customers what they could do with a converged infrastructure and its various “plays.” Atea sales manager, Kjetil Vasbø, notes that the IT industry in Norway is very old-fashioned, and it is a big advantage to be able to demonstrate a more modern approach to building management in a real-world setting. But because the building also houses Atea’s Stavanger workforce, the company was conscientious of employee comfort and productivity. THE SOLUTION: The building uses an Interact connected lighting system from Signify not only to illuminate the working environment but also to collect data on the building’s workspaces and the activities taking place within them. The building currently contains around 700 luminaires—including Philips PowerBalance PoE troffers and Philips CoreLine LED downlights from Signify—which are equipped with multi-sensors for measuring environmental factors such as presence, temperature, daylight levels and humidity.
ABOVE: Employees gather to learn about the new technology: with Cisco and Atea, the company has gone beyond just theory and have implemented a real-world example of the smart office of the future. The use cases that can be enabled from this is where the value for Atea can be driven.
PROJECT CREDITS:
Lighting Design: Signify Photography: Courtesy, Signify PRODUCT CREDITS:
Lighting + Controls: Interact Office from Signify; Philips PowerBalance PoE troffers; Philips CoreLine LED downlights from Signify
individual needs. And, of course, to focus on the
on workspaces and the activities taking place
environmental issues we are all facing—we have
within them. The building currently contains
one single network powering our lighting and
around 700 luminaires—including Philips Power-
our WiFi, getting information from all the sen-
Balance PoE troffers and Philips CoreLine LED
sors. It’s one single converged network.”
downlights from Signify—which are equipped
The connected lighting system is an integral
factors such as presence, temperature, daylight
nected luminaires and their multi-sensors trans-
levels and humidity. “You will always need light,
mit data via the IP network, which is deployed
so why not utilize the ceiling and put in sensors
using Cisco Ethernet switches. Many of the
connected to the same infrastructure?”
building’s luminaires connect to the converged infrastructure using Power-over-Ethernet (PoE). As a smart office solution showcase, the build-
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With sensors collecting information from the lit environment on everything from temperature to humidity to occupancy, the building gener-
ing allows Atea to demonstrate to their custom-
ates a large amount of data. The challenge is
ers what they can do. Atea sales manager Kjetil
what kind of data to collect, how often to collect
Vasbø notes that the IT industry in Norway is
it, how to store/remove it and how to analyze
very old-fashioned, and it’s a big advantage to be
it. One approach that has worked well for them
able to demonstrate a more modern approach to
is the digital twin. A three-dimensional model
building management in a real-world setting.
of a space that you can move through in the
The building uses an Interact connected light-
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with multi-sensors for measuring environmental
component of the building’s IoT platform. Con-
same way that you can move through a virtual
ing system from Signify, not only to illuminate
world in a first-person video game, engineers at
the working environment, but also to collect data
Atea, in fact, created their twin by putting the
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