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Siemens adds location-based services to its portfolio for digital buildings

Press Release

Zug, September 20, 2017

Siemens adds location-based services to its portfolio for digital buildings

Integration of location data in building systems and processes

More comfort and safety for building users and operators

Partnership with indoor positioning expert infsoft

The Siemens Building Technologies Division is adding location-based services to its digital service offering for buildings. These services link existing building infrastructures and processes with location-specific data. This benefits all building users: People working in the building enjoy enhanced comfort. For example, they are now able to use a smartphone app to individually control the room temperature and lighting in their immediate vicinity or find and reserve an available meeting room nearby. Location-based services help visitors find their way around a building more quickly and obtain the information they need. In addition, these services dramatically improve the operational processes in a building, optimizing room utilization, simplifying emergency evacuations and making building maintenance more efficient. Beyond that, it is easier to protect assets against loss or theft, take inventory and locate them at any time. This is important, for instance, to quickly find mobile medical equipment in a hospital.

“Location-based services are an ideal addition to our existing portfolio for efficient and safe buildings. We turn buildings into places where people are comfortable and able to work productively. At the same time, these services help optimize processes in companies, ” says Eike-Oliver Steffen, Head of the Solution Business for the Siemens Building Technologies Division.

Siemens is developing its offering for location-based services in close cooperation with infsoft, a renowned expert in the field of indoor positioning. Infsoft’s proven platform covers a variety of technological options and use cases, including indoor positioning using Bluetooth beacons and highly accurate asset tracking via ultra- wideband.

This press release and a press picture are available at

www.siemens.com/press/PR2017090431BTEN

For further information on the Building Technologies Division, please see

www.siemens.com/buildingtechnologies

Siemens AG Communications Head: Clarissa Haller
Werner-von-Siemens-Straße 1
80333 Munich Germany

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Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for more than 165 years. The company is active in more than 200 countries, focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of efficient power generation and power transmission solutions and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions as well as automation, drive and software solutions for industry. The company is also a leading provider of medical imaging equipment – such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging systems – and a leader in laboratory diagnostics as well as clinical IT. In fiscal 2016, which ended on September 30, 2016, Siemens generated revenue of €79.6 billion and net income of €5.6 billion. At the end of September 2016, the company had around 351, 000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

Reference number: PR2017090431BTEN
 
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