The future of the built environment is smart. Not implementing technology for technology’s sake, but the result of a conversation amongst tenants, owners and technologists focused on the outcomes that the users of buildings actually want. We are just at the start of the smart building journey and it’s imperative that real estate gets smart now, and gets smart right.

 

What people want and need has always evolved over time, and our buildings too have adapted. Now, however, driven in part by advances in technology, our expectations are transforming faster than ever before. And our buildings need to respond – a challenge in an industry where the pace of change has always been slow and measured. Although technology is both a significant driver of change, and a fundamental part of the solution, the changes we make as an industry need to start not from the technology, but from the people. Technological success is determined by the outcomes technology delivers for people: high-tech space is not a goal in and of itself. Ever present in our day-to-day, technology is the digital right hand most of us couldn’t live without. Devices formerly designed to perform simple labour saving tasks, or provide peripheral entertainment are now fundamental to the way we live, work and navigate the world around us. Watches, phones, televisions, even cars… Our once gear-and-cog operated devices have digitized to become highly intelligent, ever-learning smart machines. At an accelerating pace, technology is developing in new ways to deliver outcomes that enhance multiple aspects of our lives. Consider all of the extraordinary advancements that have occurred in the past decade alone. Now imagine that same level of technological development.

 

 

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