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Physical Security — The Key To Unlocking Smart Building Success
By Mark Green, Physical Security Specialist at LMG
Physical security features have emerged as the most important source of data for the archetypal smart building, with CCTV analytics, location sensors and access control all producing vital information to allow facilities managers to make more effective decisions.
The data derived from these sources can help improve visitor management, uphold health and safety guidelines and improve the overall tenant/employee experience and well being – all of which contribute significantly to building performance and, most importantly, the occupant experience.
And as we assess how best to use our buildings and workspaces post COVID, I would go as far as to say that physical security is the key to smart building success as we return to the office. Here’s why.
Visitor Management And Health And Safety Thousands of people pass through commercial buildings daily. Due to new regulations regarding social distancing as a result of the COVID pandemic, facility owners and managers have found themselves with new responsibilities. Among the most pressing of these is upholding limits on space occupancy, reducing physical contact and remaining accountable for building occupants, their whereabouts and their health status.
While this pandemic will eventually run its course, the expectations of visitors and occupants will remain irrevocably changed as we return to the workplace. And as this new attitude towards hybrid working will involve employees spending less time in commercial buildings such as offices, priorities will inevitably shift when it comes to occupancy levels. A consistently lower occupancy level across a building, compared with pre pandemic levels, means greater priority given to high quality experiences in lower occupancy areas. Put simply — workers expect a little more room to breathe.
Physical security devices serve to make this new paradigm as simple as possible. As a starting point, CCTV cameras allow for a smart building to track the number of people entering, occupying and exiting the building in real time. Whilst COVID restrictions remain in place, CCTV analytics can also be used to detect the usage of face coverings.
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As many businesses adopt longer term hybrid working models, smart CCTV applications can assist facilities managers in understanding how their buildings are being used, allowing them to make informed decisions on how to optimise use of their real estate. Monitoring occupancy demand will provide planners with hard quantitative analytics regarding what type of facilities are required.
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