A comfortably air-conditioned environment and lighting that has been adjusted to the optimal brightness; high-rise buildings also reduce the stress of moving between floors via the use of high-speed elevators.
On the other hand, the building management staff must carry out the constant, demanding tasks of inspecting the equipment around the clock every day, recording the results on the inspection sheet, and using this information to compile reports.
In this article, we discuss how the promotion of DX in equipment management, including the introduction of IoT technologies, can help to reduce the burden on building management staff and solve these sorts of problems encountered in equipment management. We also spoke to Haga, who is in charge of equipment management at the Minato MIRAI Innovation Center, and Yamamoto, who is in charge of sales at the Tokyo branch office, about the energy savings that were achieved at the center.
Issues encountered in equipment management
