Feb 19, 2020   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

Industrial Internet Consortium Announces Winners of Smart Buildings Challenge

BERLIN, Feb. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BOSCH CONNECTED WORLD - The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC(TM)), the world's leading organization transforming 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 introduced us to innovative new solution providers that are using advanced technologies to improve cost-performance efficiencies in large-scale ecosystems," said Dr. Philipp Sepehr, Chief Digital Officer at ECE, a manager of large commercial properties and a leading European shopping center operator. "The winning contestants did an outstanding job of demonstrating how they will augment the existing smart buildings deployments in our shopping malls. Along with our partners Deka Immobilien and TÜV SÜD, we are looking forward to introducing the proofs-of-concept into our live environment."

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.

About Industrial Internet Consortium
The Industrial Internet Consortium is the world's leading membership program transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The IIC delivers a trustworthy IIoT in which the world's systems and devices are securely connected and controlled to deliver transformational outcomes. The Industrial Internet Consortium is a program of the Object Management Group (OMG). For more information, visit www.iiconsortium.org.

Note to editors: Industrial Internet Consortium is a registered trademark of OMG. For a listing of all OMG trademarks, visit https://www.omg.org/legal/tm_list.htm. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contact:
Karen Quatromoni
Industrial Internet Consortium
+1-781-444-0404 x146
quatromoni@iiconsortium.org

View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/industrial-internet-consortium-announces-winners-of-smart-buildings-challenge-301004966.html

SOURCE Industrial Internet Consortium