Keynote: Edge with Cloud: Unlocking the Future of Smart Building Management
In today’s fast-evolving building landscape, facility managers and system integrators face a challenge: how to deliver the right combination of edge and cloud solutions for optimal performance. Traditional building management systems (BMS) often force a choice between edge or cloud — but what if you didn’t have to choose?
This presentation explores how integrated edge with cloud solutions are redefining smart building performance. Discover how real-time, local data processing at the edge ensures system uptime and responsiveness, while cloud connectivity drives predictive maintenance, portfolio-wide optimisation, and cost savings on data transfer and storage.
Attend the session to learn how this hybrid approach empowers system integrators and end users alike — keeping systems connected, efficient, and always a step ahead.
Session Speaker
Simon Ward is an experienced Sales Professional in the building automation market. He has extensive experience of the installation and use of room controls as well as technical knowledge of advanced building automation in commercial buildings such as offices, hotels and apartments. He started his career at Distech Controls in 2015 and has built a successful sales team in the UK, positioning Distech Controls as a tier 1 vendor in the UK and Irish markets.
