Facility Management

The challenges of managing smart buildings

As the interest in smart buildings and related technologies continues to grow, there’s an important issue that shouldn’t be overlooked in all the hype: exactly how can facility managers effectively manage these buildings, and what challenges are they likely to face?

Here are four common challenges that facility managers can expect while managing smart buildings, and ideas on how they can best tackle these issues.

1 DEVICE LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT

Smart building technology runs on an interconnected system of wireless sensors and other fittings, all coming together to

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