Secure and Resilient Cellular Connectivity for Smart Buildings

The rapid growth of Smart Building technology

Until the start of 2020, the primary function of smart building IoT technology has been environmental management, preventive maintenance, building security and safety. These applications enable organisations to remotely monitor, remotely control and automate processes, delivering cost efficiency and safer, secure buildings.

With the global outbreak of Covid-19, we are now seeing the rapid growth of newer smart building applications. Technologies such as thermal imaging cameras and occupancy monitoring systems are being deployed to help minimise the risk of spreading coronavirus – helping those responsible to actively manage social distancing policies.

Legislation from governments is likely to accelerate this trend in the coming months and years as technology is increasingly relied upon to minimise infection rates.

Success Story: ENGIE uses 4G solutions from Wireless Logic to deliver smart buildings analysis

ENGIE provides the property sector with its expertise to design, create and manage zero carbon buildings. They do this by collecting and analysing huge sets of data via IoT-enabled monitoring devices at customer locations.

With a broad range of buildings and environments to serve it was important to ensure that services were unaffected by existing network infrastructure issues. Installing new fixed line infrastructure was cost and time prohibitive, so ENGIE turned to cellular connectivity as a solution.

Wireless Logic delivered on ENGIE’s key requirements on flexibility, security, ease and speed of deployment and cost-effectiveness with a one-stop multi-network connectivity solution.

Multiple networks and pre-configured 4G routers were quickly deployed to ensure resilient connectivity in each location. Visibility and management of the deployment through the SIMPro platform. Private APNs were used to ensure that data was processed securely away from the public network and IPSec VPNs were implemented to ensure data was processed securely.

These changes enabled ENGIE to quickly deploy a simple, secure and resilient connectivity solution that enabled them to focus on delivering value for their customers.

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IoT Connectivity Solutions for Smart Buildings

If you’re involved in the development of a connected smart building solution, you’ll know that building managers, owners and public sector bodies are actively looking for ways to operate buildings more safely, cost effectively and with less impact on the environment by reducing emissions. Our solution guide will explain the key connectivity challenges for solution providers, and how it can quickly deliver resilient, secure and easy to manage connectivity across multiple locations.

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