📋 Tender Overview
- Companies will jointly offer a technology portfolio for buildings including everything from energy efficiency and user experience to connectivity security and data analysis Siemens Smart Infrastructure in Spain a market leader in innovation and technology for smart buildings and Telefnica Tech Telefnicas holding company for digital businesses with high growth potential in IoT Big Data Blockchain Cybersecurity and Cloud will be offering the Spanish market their services and solutions for smart buildings in one package.This collaboration agreement will enable both companies to present a joint value proposition including solutions for increasing physical security monitoring and operational and energy efficiency as well as user experience and the digitalization of services where connectivity plays a leading role. They will also offer an infrastructure which facilitates data collection and analysis to turn data into valuable information for better decision-making.Siemens and Telefnica Tech will offer comprehensive solutions which protect buildings from fires and monitor entry points and potential intrusions with closed-circuit television CCTV including the possibility of video analysis. The experience and knowledge of both companies will also enable them to include other joint solutions related to optimization such as smart lighting environmental monitoring predictive maintenance de-escalation monitoring smart parking occupancy and capacity management including audio-visual and space reservation solutions.Impact on sustainability Siemens and Telefnica Tech will create a complete portfolio for buildings which will include technology to support companies in achieving their sustainability goals through solutions for optimizing resources and reducing environmental impact. Buildings are responsible for around 40 percent of primary energy use globally and companies are now more conscious than ever of the importance of sustainability and the economic benefits it brings. Siemens and Telefnica Tech are confident of the competitive advantages their collaboration will bring to clients. The potential of uniting two portfolios with a clear focus on achieving communication security and energy efficiency creates major opportunities for improving buildings and preparing them for the future says Fernando Silva Director of Siemens Smart Infrastructure for Spain and Portugal. We are combining Telefnicas expertise in communications with Siemens expertise in smart electric networks and building automation to enable us to implement a comprehensive solution for the buildings of any private or public body.This agreement with Siemens demonstrates Telefnica Techs potential as an integrator of solutions based on connectivity in this agreement we offer our specialist knowledge in connectivity physical security IoT and Big Data and provider of digital transformation for companies in their plans to become more sustainable organizations. Together we will make smart buildings even more advanced in order to promote at the same time energy efficiency and contribute to improving peoples lives explains Elena Gil Global Director of IoT and Big Data Products and Business Operations at Telefnica Tech. Smart buildings interact with the people systems and external elements surrounding them. They learn from past experiences and real-time inputs adapting to the needs of the people and the businesses using them by increasing comfort efficiency resilience and security. For more than 170 years Siemens has provided society with pioneering technology that has improved the infrastructure of cities to make them more sustainable. The combination of the communication physical security and connectivity capabilities of Telefnica and Siemens solutions will be able to make all types of buildings smarter from hospitals to corporate offices as well as shopping centers or industrial facilities.Telefnica Tech offers specific solutions for smart cities that through the implementation of IoT Big Data and other technologies enable it to obtain fundamental information for protecting the environment and detecting anomalies for example in water consumption street lighting and HVAC systems.
