February 19, 2020 – The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) , the organization working to transform business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced the winners of its Smart Buildings Challenge today at Bosch Connected World. Designed to help digitalize the smart buildings industry, the Smart Buildings Challenge had technology suppliers compete to design solutions for four different use cases.
A jury selected the winners from a pool of 39 entries from 26 contestants. The winners are:
- Cubelizer S.L. who won for Smart Space Flow Analytics;
- Aedifion and Thing Technologies who won for both the Smart Metering in Multi-Tenant Commercial Buildings and Smart Automated Building use cases; and
- Holisticon and its subsidiary Markenwerk who won for Smart Building Cockpit.
The Smart Buildings Challenge presented contestants with a set of smart building problems faced by building operators and investors, as well as a set of parameters required of the solutions. Technology suppliers developed solution proposals, alone or with partners, and competed to deploy pilot implementations to fulfill the requirements outlined by the challenge. Technology partners providing technology for the challenge included Bosch , Microsoft and Security and Safety Things .
Additional finalists for the Smart Buildings Challenge were: BuildingMinds , Cloud Studio , G2K Group , Limitless Insight , Moeco , Oriient New Media and Umajin .
Winners receive the opportunity to deliver a live proof of concept in a shopping mall supported by Deka Immobilien , ECE and TÜV SÜD .
