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Facebook Headquarters - Menlo Park, CA

that process with better data. Within various buildings, a tools, café ordering systems, BMS migrations, CAFM and
process that’s cost efficient for one may not be for another. establishing data pipelines.
Our campuses are in various stages, with remodels,
redevelopments and new construction. The remodels or What technology, automation or innovation trends
retrofits are the current focus: making existing facilities do you see having the most impact on the industry
smarter. At the same time we want to ensure that the new over the next three years?
construction is smart long-term. Technology for real estate is maturing and the need for
cybersecurity in IoT and real estate is increasing. The
What are your highest priority technology initiatives good news is that operators are taking attacks more
in 2019 and what are the drivers behind them? seriously and the building systems are getting more
Continuing our efforts with Operational Smart Building is secure. We do have more to do. We’re so used to talking
number one; we have also done a lot of work on lighting about security on IP networks and then realizing that
configurations and systems, and will continue to improve when you come into the real estate world, not everything
on those. is IP-based—so now what does security look like? It’s
wonderful to see more focus around cybersecurity, and
Additionally, we are doing a major redesign of our mobile that is going to improve our buildings.
app for ease of use and to take advantage of the smarter
campus. We have about 25 sub-apps combined into our Another is sharing data between systems. This is probably
Employee App. It includes our Eats app for dining, our going to have a larger impact on smart buildings than
Facebook Headquarters - Menlo Park, CA Ride app to move employees from place to place, and our security. All the systems—not just lights or HVAC—have to
Wayfinder app to help them navigate the building. However, understand each other to be able to share data. Everybody
it isn’t just about having a mobile app; they solve a lot of wants the same piece of data but can’t share across
problems, that’s why it’s easy to start there. But it’s really systems because they can’t talk to each other. We need a
about understanding that your employees are mobile, standard interface, a common language, a common data
and to be adaptive to their location. How does service format and structure to communicate all this information
change based upon their location, and how is the employee about buildings. All of that data together as inputs helps
impacted in a different location? Essentially, we’re looking create a smarter building. We are building middleware
at a day in the life of our employee and the experiences to translate between APIs of different building systems.
they have; then tie them together seamlessly. Instead of asking if a sensor has picked up motion in a
room, we want to ask the room if it detects people.
We have many other projects in 2019: optimizing bus
routes, improved parking, space utilization, 3D Models, How we interpret the data needs to start changing as well.
AR/VR, corrective/preventative actions, space planning What we infer from data needs to be carefully planned

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