In the City of London, 22 Bishopsgate is centralising the control of IoT and physical security with Security Center software from Genetec.
Sitting in the City’s financial district, 22 Bishopsgate is a multi-tenanted commercial development that stands 278m tall and comprises 1.275 million square feet of floor space across its 62 storeys. Completed in 2020, it’s a workplace for up to 12,000 employees while maintaining public access to amenities including a viewing gallery, restaurant and gymnasium.
Nick Smith, Business Development Manager, UK & Ireland, Genetec Inc said: “The beauty of what 22 Bishopsgate has created is that the more the building is used, the smarter it becomes. We’re proud to be providing them with the tools through which their smart building vision has been realised.”
From the start, 22 Bishopsgate managers sought to make it a smart building that would evolve to meet the changing needs of occupants. Technology would be deployed in pursuit of sustainability, connectivity and workplace wellbeing. As a unified security platform, Security Center could meet their needs such as consolidating all aspects of security and operations, The open architecture also allows it to pull in data from a range of devices and present this to its operators through one intuitive interface.
Glenn Cowell, Smart Systems Manager, 22 Bishopsgate, said: “The danger of relying on lots of different systems is that many alarms are generated without necessarily being presented to the right people at the right time. The beauty of the Security Center platform is its in-built customisation and flexibility. We own it and know we can shape it to our precise needs.”
Managers at 22 Bishopsgate sought to analyse daily building occupancy and usage, giving them and tenants a better understanding of how the facilities were being used. Working with its integrator Total IT, 22 Bishopsgate started by deploying Synergis access control. This was unified with video surveillance and analytics through Security Center. The building then began work on a series of IoT protocols – such as Bacnet, MQTT and SNMP – to begin ingesting data from other building systems and devices that could be visualised within Security Center.
These integrations have brought the engineering and operations functions together at a technical and management layer, so that an incident can be identified, logged, and responded to appropriately. The building can also more identify meaningful patterns and trends on which to base investment decisions. Visit: https://www.genetec.com/customer-stories/22-bishopsgate.
