No matter how successful a development project is at attracting capital and tenants, without a SMART BUILDING, any new business venture will be at a disadvantage in the very competitive world of nanotechnology, biotechnology and information systems . USC's Viterbi School of Engineering Technology Transfer Center (TTC) have devised a cost effective building wiring system which will allow every desktop access to any capabilities in computation, communication and visualization systems well in to the 21st century. 

Our goal is to bridge this digital divide.

Smart buildings (SB's) feature a robust Information Technology (IT) infrastructure that is capable of supporting the commercial business environment for the next 25 years. SB's have a sophisticated internal electronic distribution system that delivers complex information resources selectively though out the building. SB's lower the operating costs and increase building service revenue.

Today's "Smart Buildings" incorporate satellite antennas, fiber optics, sensor activated energy systems, multi-zone HVAC, and high tech security. Tenants today expect that buildings will be able to supply reliable, easy to configure high performance telecommunications.

A key component of the "smart building" is our 6-pack™. At every desktop, a combination of high-speed Ethernet along with fiber and coaxial connects, will allow every user to have near unlimited connection to resources.  With 4 Ethernet jack plus future connection to both OC-3 fiber and 75 Ohm coaxial cable, users in the "smart building" can access voice, data and High-definition video seamlessly and all in real-time. 

In the future "There will be multiple layers of IT and there will be multiple layers of knowledge available, as a universal commodity to any organizational unit that has the need and the resources to acquire it. The basic IT infrastructure will be a utility, like the telephone. Users will plug into it, as they would plug a telephone socket into a wall. However as with the telephone system, the technology behind the wall socket will be very sophisticated, with high functionality and complexity. The level of complexity, though, will be much greater than our current telephone system. At its base will be networks of networks, intelligent networks, with very high bandwidths. The nature of the traffic will be multimedia. Yet in all likelihood, multimedia as we know it today will be totally inadequate. 

Tenants don't just want plug-and-play computers. They want plug-and play-buildings. Today's smart properties offer; direct satellite communications access, multiple vendor high speed Internet access, video conferencing facilities, emergency electrical backup, and multiple vendor telecommunications access.

A "Smart Building" offers a competitive advantage for its occupants by seamlessly integrating their business systems to customers and suppliers any where in the world. This competitive advantage will be further leverage by using the infrastructure to create and maintain a modem workforce. The cost of the modem workforce will be greatly reduced by an infrastructure that is compatible with a variety of distance learning and training environments. Advanced infrastructures are easier to support remotely and lower upgrade costs.

Our Smart building will include the latest in computing resources. Machines such as file servers, web server and workstation will be readily available for use and testing of hardware and software.

We have taken every step to insure that we take into account the need for change. A raised floor system over hanging cable trays allows for wiring to be modified, reconfigured or upgraded quickly and easily. In the fast-pace business world we live in today, the ability to change quickly and cheaply is essential to surviving in the business world.

 

 

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