Cyber Security L- R - Lawrence McKenna, Serra Luck, Bob Cross, Afiz Jabbar, Bob Firth, Luke Percy-Dove, Greg Lane, Shane Norton, Chris Cubbage
HID Global Consultant Roundtable Smart Buildings, mobility & outlook to the future
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his is a special roundtable hosted by HID
The definition of intelligent buildings has been with
network design, resilience, availability, reliability
Global, as a forum in which senior Australian
us for quite some time.”
with cyber security, electronic security, physical
consultants share their thoughts on industry
“Some of the Singaporeans lead the first
security and that just to protect the network, not the
trends around smart buildings and mobility. This
foray into that space, certainly into the third-
actual building or the people, so they can maintain
recorded discussion, now available in a podcast,
generation technology buildings which I think at
that business and depend on that network to do
includes insights and experience on the evolution of
the time was roughly defined as highly integrated
whatever they need to do. It is something new that
end-user requirements, comments on industry best
building technologies that were enabling individual
has rapidly come to the fore in the last 24 months.
practices, and general expectations of what makes
occupants to control their own level of space,
a smart solution design.
comfort, and accessible amenity, at the device level.
the point, “everyone wants a smart building but may
Serra Luck, Vice President, End User and
Norman Disney & Young’s Afiz Jabbar raised
At the time, the device was nothing more than a PC.
not understand why they want it. We need to move
Consultant Business at HID Global highlighted, “The
Now I think the implementation of that concept is
beyond the technology to what the technology
motivation from HID’s prospective is creating the
little bit more ‘App’ based and mobile device based.
provides in the outcomes. What do we use all these
discussion on the physical security access control
But I think we are still talking about the same sort of
sensors for, what are we doing with the technology?
and we see a lot of influence coming from the IT
concepts. It is just that we have become a lot smart
The vision is good and there is demand, but what
side of the business with the Internet of Things
as to how we are implementing these concepts.”
are they doing with their smart building.
and seeing a lot of implementation around cloud
Greg Lane at Jacobs confirmed, “we are seeing
Luke Percy-Dove provides insight to the client’s
services. Service businesses ae coming in with a lot
a more educated client. Though in the high end
needs, “a big part of what we do is educating the
of integration and of course we see the impact on
security domain they understand what smart is,
clients and getting to the nuts and bolts of what the
the end user in that space. We are very much open
in terms of integration and may not want that in
problem is they want to solve and the best way of
to understanding what is motivating the customer
certain applications.”
determining that outcome.”
across the different vertical markets, what the
Lawrence McKenna of Wood & Grieve
Bob Firth outlined, “in terms of the architecture
change process is that is happening and we looked
Engineers highlighted, “it all depends on the
stage, there are some things you can’t bolt on later
to gather experts to share their views with us and
building owner or occupant and how much they
without enormous rework. Agreeing that we are all
learn from them.
want to invest. If it’s a building owner, and say a
going to be on the one network, agreeing that there
hospital, they definitely see a single integrated
is open standards, there may be middle ware that is
Shane Norton, who commenced, “the emergence
network and maintain that via their IT department
required, agree on the protocols early, allows you to
of smart buildings is not necessarily a new concept,
and seek to realise the cost savings as opposed
explore and expand as you go. Get those decisions
I think the way in which we do it certainly is but not
to having separate networks. But that opens an
wrong initially you can find it almost impossible to
the concept in itself. We have been talking about
entire issue around cyber dependency. Which is
retrofit some of the solutions or get the maximum
the implementation of first, second, third generation
something that is becoming more front and forward.
out of them. Planning ahead of time, what is the big
smart buildings in this region, since the late 1980’s.
That is a challenge within itself, trying to bring under
picture vision around the smart building or smart
The discussion was kindly opened by Arup’s
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