Siemon lays the path towards smarter, greener buildings at BICSI Nigeria conference

The BICSI event was themed, “New frontier: Nigerian ICT Infrastructure, Standards, Growth and Development” with a focus on the continuous need to grow and distribute Nigeria’s ICT infrastructure across the country to meet the rising demand for ICT services took place at Muson Centre in Lagos.

The presentation was delivered by Olajide Olagbenro, Siemon’s business account manager for West Africa, where he focused on the latest developments in today’s intelligent buildings and highlighted how these are increasingly moving towards IP convergence with more and more IP-enabled devices converging onto one single platform thereby creating substantial CAPEX and OPEX savings.

In his presentation, Olagbenro shared specific insight on how to create efficient infrastructure to support smart buildings. He stressed that the exponential growth in IP would require highly flexible infrastructures and recommended the deployment of a zone cabling topology throughout the modern building infrastructure to best meet this need for flexibility.

Olagbenro explained, “There is a wide range of benefits that a zone cabling topology brings to the modern building, including reduced wastage, reduced OpEx, reduced installation costs and the ability to support existing remote powering technology such as Power over Ethernet (PoE). This means that a single converged network can eliminate the need to provide external power outlets to a wide range of building system devices.”

Olagbenro also introduced Siemon’s ConvergeIT™ cabling solution for intelligent buildings, which supports converged, IP-based intelligent building systems via a single, simplified structured cabling infrastructure.

“Siemon’s participation in the event was very successful. ConvergeIT was a key concept that is new to Nigeria and West Africa, and it was very well received by the audience. The BICSI event also gave us an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the breadth and depth of our comprehensive product range for LANs, data centres and intelligent buildings to end users and system integrators,”he added.

ConvergeIT is designed to help architects, design-build firms, building owners and contractors to plan and deploy efficient IT cabling infrastructure in green intelligent buildings to support a variety of services such as voice/data, wireless, lighting, video surveillance, access control, audio/video, life safety systems, energy management, and HVAC, while effectively delivering reliable PoE to system devices.

Olagbenro concluded, “Part of the discussions surrounding the focus on growing Nigeria’s ICT infrastructure addressed the need to deploy high quality, high performance structured cabling systems. This is where Siemon can contribute by providing guidance and advice on cabling standards and the latest solutions.”