Cisco Connected Real Estate

Highlights from a Cisco White Paper

The following are extracts come from a CCRE White Paper published on the Cisco corporate site (link provided below).

Cisco Connected Real Estate

Cisco connected real estate utilizes the power of the internet to bring huge financial and operational advantages not only to the key stakeholders in the construction, real estate and property services industries, but also to corporate tenants, hotel operators and multiplexed retail outlets....

Architecture evolves with every decade, and the results are there for people’s enjoyment. International recognition awaits those whose efforts take the art to new levels of attainment. The next revolution is occurring right now: although every bit as elegant as the external aspects of the buildings it complements, it is largely hidden from public gaze.

Cisco Connected Real Estate (CCRE) is the embodiment of that revolution. It harnesses the power of Internet Protocol (IP) to turn traditional building construction and management paradigms on their heads.

The network as utility

Until recently, the network was acknowledged as merely pervasive but now, with the advent of Internet Protocol (IP), it has become ubiquitous. Today, global business and the public sector cannot operate without it. Real estate – from terraced houses and towering office blocks to shopping malls and sprawling airports – is all interconnected, as illustrated in Figure 1. In fact alongside water, gas and electricity the network has acquired its own utility status.

Convergence

As shown in Figure 2, convergence is driving the next evolutionary stage: the development of in-building and on-campus multi-service IP platforms that create value for key stakeholders in the real estate value chain.

Technology Overview

Through the convergence of IT and building automation networks, CCRE creates a single IP infrastructure over which building systems can be connected and innovative tenant services can be offered. Using Cisco’s framework for voice, video and integrated data (AVVID) the converged nature of a CCRE IP environment enables several different (and hitherto separate) areas of technology to be brought into play to realise the CCRE advantages described in this white paper. The most important current technological areas are discussed in the following paragraphs, but new applications are being added virtually every day.

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