How will the intelligent properties of the future function? What kinds of technical challenges will they have? Answers to these questions are sought in the pilot environment of intelligent building engineering in Otaniemi.

What kind of problem is the project trying to solve?

In the future, properties will compete for users with, for example, virtual reality. Currently, the traditional office buildings cannot respond to the experiences provided by virtual reality.

It is therefore important to find out how the properties of the future will function in terms of intelligence and how different technical building systems can be used to achieve the best possible conditions in an office building from the point of view of the employee.

Objective: to test intelligent building engineering in a pilot environment  

The experimental project builds a pilot environment for intelligent building engineering on Aalto University's Otaniemi campus. The pilot environment consists of several facilities in everyday use, such as office facilities and meeting rooms. In addition, the pilot environment includes a technical space to which the systems used will be located. Office and meeting facilities enable the testing and development of various intelligent solutions in practice.

The purpose of the project is to obtain information on how different technical building systems can be reconciled and where the technical challenges are.

In addition, the project investigates how the different traditional user interfaces, such as buttons and touchscreen, and more recent methods, such as voice and gesture control, can be applied to controlling intelligent building automation.

Who benefits?

Architects and construction engineers and others engaged in building engineering.