Colombia. Building Management met during the International E+S+S Safety Fair, with Carlos Luna, Demand Creation Manager for The Southern and Andean Cone of Anixter, who shared some of his insights on how different technologies work to make a property or building more efficient.
In the first place, Luna highlighted among the novelties at a technological level the video analytics software. "Our focus is not to sell products, but to offer products that integrate and become solutions. One of the most important trends is precisely that of video analytics, this means that from the captured video you can extract information such as people counting, identification of plates, user behavior, identification of objects, among others. That is, basic security solutions, which through software become more advanced solutions," Luna said.
As for how building managers can take advantage of this type of technology, the interviewee pointed out that "the building manager usually comes from a single area of operation of the building and always seeks to manage his building from that premise or lens, so the first advice we give them is to break that paradigm and think that their building is an organism that must respond to the company and its operation."
Luna added that "for the decisions that must be made about the technologies to be implemented in the building, several aspects have to play beyond the purely operational issue, aspects have to be sought such as what is the response of the building to the business, how the building will seek that the employees who work in it or the customers who visit it receive an adequate management within that space and all that begins to lead to an integration in different areas, not only the area of maintenance, energy or air conditioning, but also plays a very important role in the administration and management of the property as such".
Finally, Luna said that "being able to measure is very important, we must think that any technological decision must be measurable to be manageable, issues such as energy consumption, temperature measurement, occupancy levels, all these are very important parameters for the management of any building. The ideal is to make these decisions from the conception of the project and not when it is already being implemented, but if that is not the case and the project is already working there are ways to make evaluations and create a path to reach that final goal of making the building more efficient. "
