Light + Building 2020 postponed: 010digital offers webinar to show AR solution

At Light + Building the industry presents every two years the latest products for the fields of lighting, electrical engineering as well as home and building automation. It focuses on solutions for reducing the energy consumption of buildings while raising the levels of comfort within them. The show covers everything from LED and photovoltaic technology to electric vehicles, ‘intelligent’ ways of using electricity with ‘smart metering’ and ‘smart grids’.

010digital introduces its patented Augmented Reality (AR) solution for integrated building automation that optimizes functionality, time and costs as well as energy efficiency. In hall 8.0 at booth B74, you will experience how the monitoring, control and maintenance of electrical systems becomes a lot easier thanks to the AR application.

„Augmented Reality allows users to interact with surrounding objects in a very simple and intuitive way: just point the camera at an object and choose from the control options displayed on the screen“, says Bertil Felsch, Chief Operating Officer at 010digital GmbH. AR offers an innovative approach to the development of IoT systems. While voice assistants like Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant depend on knowing the right command logic, the AR app works without any prior knowledge of the devices.

This has a lot of benefits for companies that are, for instance, struggling with skill shortages. The AR app guides inspectors throughout the entire maintenance routine, allowing new or less experienced technicians to start right away, without prior instructor-led training. Paper surveys are replaced with digital checklists in order to collect and store records automatically. Managers can access the analytics dashboard at any time, making it easy to track important KPIs, maintenance time and equipment history to prevent and avoid unscheduled downtime.

By integrating smart metering systems, individual parameter values can be set to get alerts in case of anomalies. The technicians will be informed about any irregularities immediately and led to the machines and devices in question by an integrated real-time tracking and navigation system. If necessary, they can even make manual adjustments on-site using the app. This is why the app comes as a great relief for the facility management of large buildings and big office spaces, including indoor farms, saving time and staff costs, especially in terms of monitoring, inspection and maintenance.

As the Light + Building 2020 has been postponed to September, we are happy to showcase our solution in a webinar to those interested. For more information, feel free to contact us on our website. Of course, you can also test our AR solution in person at the Light + Building in September: Visitors can fill out maintenance logs, control the light and set the ventilation, lighting and irrigation for a plant rack.