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    Smart buildings: the next generation 

    Atea

    Stavanger, Norway


    The new Atea office building in Stavanger, Norway, has been conceived from the ground up as a living lab—a test bed and showcase for connected and integrated systems.

    By being in a living lab, we are constantly evolving, we are constantly trying and testing our own products and our partners’ products by using them ourselves.”


    - Espen Riska, Smart buildings director at Atea Stavanger

    Customer challenge


    Atea, the leader in IT infrastructure in Norway and the Baltics, has partnered with connected lighting leader Signify and networking giant Cisco to design and engineer a truly integrated smart building from the bottom up. The new Atea building features a converged IT infrastructure for integrating systems and collecting rich, actionable data for monitoring, modeling, and AI applications. The connected lighting system and Interact Office software from Signify create a platform for distributing intelligence throughout the building’s illuminated spaces.

    The advantages of a living lab

    As a smart office solution showcase, the new building allows Atea to demonstrate to customers what they can do with a converged infrastructure. But because the building also houses Atea’s Stavanger workforce, the company must maintain something of a double focus: employee comfort and productivity is as important as showcasing multiple smart solutions and how they can be integrated.

     

    Atea smart buildings director Espen Riska notes that smart technology can be embedded into an office environment in a way that supports both employee well-being and operational efficiency only if planned for from the earliest stages. “You have to be in that drawing process, you have to be in the architect’s mind, and you have to be really prepared to meet new issues along the way,” Riska advises.

     

    Now that the building is open and occupied, Atea brings potential customers in on a regular basis, to see for themselves how smart buildings can be configured, maintained, and managed. More people visited the new building in six months, in fact, than had visited the old Atea building in over ten years.

     

    Installing systems in their own building also allows Atea to evaluate and test systems in a real-world context that can’t be replicated by a simulation or a prototype. The building is designed to allow for experimentation with different solutions, which can be rapidly upgraded or restructured to improve and verify effectiveness.

     

    “The technology is developing constantly, and we wanted the newest technology available,” says senior network engineer and system architect Pål Bjelland. These new technologies include a personal control app for the lighting system, a highly accurate indoor location system, multisensors, and even Li-Fi for lightbased, high-bandwidth wireless communications. Making improvements will be an ongoing process, as technologies continue to evolve and as Atea’s understanding and experience continue to deepen.

     

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