Device Layer

At our September Building Owner Meetup, we gathered our community of building owners to facilitate conversations specifically focused on constructing a device layer.

Water systems remain the least digitized building infrastructure despite posing major risks—from catastrophic leaks to Legionella outbreaks. New non-invasive sensors now offer targeted solutions without requiring comprehensive building automation, transforming water from a utility bill line item into a managed asset with real-time visibility.

Most building owners think they're doing device management—they're not. Financial institutions are spending hundreds of millions on emergency remediation because nobody actually owns this problem.

Discover how smart sensors, air quality monitoring, and environmental data can transform your building into a productivity-boosting, health-optimizing workspace that saves money while making people measurably smarter.

New solutions are aiming to give building owners the benefits of a horizontal architecture (more choice, flexibility, and resilience) while minimizing the burden on their thinly stretched teams.

The pressure is on to translate all this raw sensor data into safer, more effective, more engaging workplaces—and to prove it’s worth the ongoing cost of the IoT stack. In this next phase, the focus shifts from where people are to what they’re doing, what the environment is like, and what to do about it.