Siemens To Accelerate Net-zero Transition With Building X Sustainability Manager

To aid organizations in reaching their net-zero goals, Siemens has developed a new application for its Building X platform. 

 

Siemens’ Building X Sustainability Manager is designed to help organizations meet their sustainability and net-zero goals. Image used courtesy of Unsplash

 

Building X Digital Platform

Siemens' Building X is a cloud-based smart building platform that scales, digitizes, manages, and optimizes building operations. The platform allows building managers to monitor multiple buildings from a single platform and store data in one location for easy data mining. It also enables users to incorporate AI in buildings to help predict when problems might occur, optimize operating costs, and assist with energy-efficient audits. 

 

Net-zero Initiative

Siemens' Building X Sustainability Manager, a new application in the Building X platform, is designed to help companies and building operation managers reach a net-zero goal. According to the United Nations, net zero is when greenhouse gas emissions are as close to zero as possible. 

All around the world, countries, states, and cities are encouraging and even forcing large buildings and companies to reduce their carbon footprint. New York City’s Local Law 97, enacted in 2019, requires that most buildings over 25,000 square feet limit their greenhouse gas emission this year and reduce emissions to net zero by 2050. Similarly, the Canadian government has committed to reaching net zero as a country by 2050, aiming for a 40-45% reduction in emissions by 2030.

 

The Building X Sustainability Manager enables users to collect and analyze utility bill data. Image used courtesy of Siemens

 

Building X Sustainability Manager

For companies, reaching net zero is almost impossible without a method of collecting, tracking, and analyzing data. With the Building X Sustainability Manager application, end users can collect and analyze data, create budgets, and identify areas of success and areas that could use some help. 

The application uses a building's utility bills to determine areas of opportunity and success. The data is stored within the Building X cloud platform for later analysis. The data collected can be energy usage or costs, carbon emissions, waste, water consumption, and any other utility a building commonly uses. 

Dashboards can be customized to present data in a clear format for presentations or further analysis. Monitoring progress and analyzing data happens in one place for ease of use, and alerts can be customized to bring attention to areas of interest. 

 

The Building X Sustainability Manager provides organizations with a tool to help monitor and reduce carbon emissions from buildings. Image used courtesy of Siemens

 

Accelerating Sustainability 

The Building X platform is designed with the single source of truth architecture, allowing end users one platform with multiple tools to collect, monitor, and analyze their data. Single source of truth is a data science term where all the data collected, monitored, or analyzed occurs in one place. The master data is only referenced, and any edits that need to occur happen only to the master data record and not the copy. This architecture reduces redundant, inaccurate versions that can sometimes cause incorrect calculations or predictions with predictive maintenance algorithms.

With the addition of the Building X Sustainability Manager in Building X, Siemens now offers users an even more comprehensive, single-source digital building platform.