AI: The brains behind energy saving, customer service and product development.

Reducing carbon emissions from our built environment is an increasingly urgent conundrum that’s giving rise to a new generation of ‘smart’ buildings that interconnect technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT) and data analytics to optimize performance and minimise energy use. Today’s buildings are responsible for approximately 40 percent of global energy-related carbon emissions1, with almost a third of this resulting from energy used to light, heat or cool homes, offices and shopping malls. The remainder are ‘embodied’ emissions from the building process, maintenance and demolition.

By Bertrand Vandewiele, Global Head of Commercial Building Solutions at ABB.