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CLOUD’S-EYE VIEW
Once a smart building is up and running, issues of
maintenance, efficiency and functionality come to the
forefront. It’s in these areas that recent developments like
cloud computing, the rise of the smartphone and the
Internet of Things are making the largest impact, according
to Wash. This is why he predicts that KONE’s agreement,
inked early this year, to adopt IBM’s Watson IoT Cloud
Platform will be a true game changer.
The most immediate benefit of the cloud will be on
monitoring of elevators and escalators. “IBM’s IoT platform
will allow us to connect all of our elevators in the next
several years. It will also allow us to analyze the trends
across those millions of elevators to understand things like
reliability issues and how the customer is using the product,
and provide advanced warning to proactively fix problems
before they occur,” Wash explains.
UP, CLOSE AND PERSONAL
But this advanced monitoring is only the beginning of what
the cloud can do. Imagine a building that that already
knows who you are before you even walk in the door,
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