K-Businesscom makes the new office of the Vienna AMS-Serviceline smart

K-Businesscom is equipping the renovated AMS building in Vienna's 22nd district with intelligent sensors for the lighting. This smart lighting solution allows the lighting to be automated and individually controlled, significantly reducing energy consumption.

Vienna, 15 April 2019 - K-Businesscom is equipping the new AMS Serviceline call center with a comprehensive smart lighting solution, for which the digitalization expert installed 860 adjustable LED lamps with 860 sensors in the new office in Prandaugasse. Around 150 AMS employees spread over five floors with a total of 3,300 m² now benefit from a pleasant working atmosphere. For those responsible for the building, the new solution provides simple and automated control of the lighting as well as enormous potential for reducing energy consumption. "The renovation of our building provided a good opportunity to focus on smart solutions in new areas. In the long term, we expect to save 80% on electricity consumption. K-Businesscom has been a reliable telephony partner of AMS for many years, with over 7,000 connections throughout Austria," explains Harald Halfmann, Head of Purchasing at AMS.

Lighting only when it is really needed.

At the heart of the new solution are the 860 sensors that can measure a wide range of parameters. At AMS, these are the presence in the room and the amount of sunlight. The LED lamps automatically adjust their brightness to the sensor data and provide different amounts of light depending on their position in the room. For example, workstations at the window are illuminated differently to those further inside the building. The lighting conditions can even be adjusted depending on the weather. Lamps also switch off when rooms are empty and the light in corridors brightens automatically as soon as someone walks through. The lighting adjustments are measured so sensitively (30 times per second) and played out in a targeted manner that they are barely noticeable to the human eye. The only thing that employees notice is that there is always an optimum and pleasant light intensity of 500 LUX in the rooms and at the workplace.

For facility management, the system makes it easy to handle and operate the lighting system. Facility managers simply control the system centrally or via remote access. The LED luminaires can be replaced quickly, easily and, above all, safely in the event of a failure, as only plug connections and low voltage are used (Power over Ethernet).

"The smart lighting solution at AMS is a good example of the potential of smart building technologies for employees, facility management and building owners in general," explains Jochen Borenich, Member of the Management Board at K-Businesscom. With the existing sensor technology and the intelligence behind it, many additional functions could be covered and expanded: for example, temperature measurement for controlling the heating, automatic workstation bookings for shared desk approaches, the release of unused meeting rooms (if no presence is measured after a few minutes) and much more. Smart building offers a broad field for the optimal control and efficient use of any building.

"The technological solution that we use at AMS comes from our German partner w-tec, a company in our digital ecosystem for smart buildings. As the exclusive partner for Austria, we plan and install these smart lighting solutions end-to-end. Just like all our digitalization solutions: from the sensor to the networking to the platform, where the data is processed accordingly and analysed with artificial intelligence, to the application for the user himself, who can book and control his workplace in the smart office on his smartphone," adds Jochen Borenich.

As a leading digitalization partner,K-Businesscom supports companies in increasing their business performance and developing new business models. K-Businesscom acts as a consultant, system supplier and service provider. With its comprehensive expertise in dealing with large amounts of data and security as well as a large number of successful use cases in numerous industries, K-Businesscom is the ideal companion for digital transformation. The extensive portfolio in Austria, Romania and the DACH region includes technology solutions for intelligent and, above all, secure ICT infrastructure, smart building, media and security technology as well as outsourcing services. K-Businesscom relies on vendor independence and partnerships with leading global providers such as HPE, Cisco and Microsoft as well as a broad network of partners from research and industry-specific solution providers - from start-ups to large corporations.

K-Businesscom has over 17,000 customers - e.g. Allianz, Erste Bank, ÖBB, OMV, ORF or Vodafone - and supports them locally and globally. Around 1,200 K-Businesscom employees generated revenue of around EUR 318 million in the 2017/18 financial year.