IBM has entered into an agreement with industrial products firm Ingersoll Rand to provide energy-efficiency systems for a range of buildings. As part of the agreement, IBM India will combine its intelligent building management system with Ingersoll’s energy saving products for organizations who are engaged in infrastructure creation or maintenance for high growth sectors (Commercial, Hospitality, Health, Pharma & others)The two sets of technologies will be able to communicate and provide users and building owners with energy performance data.
The solution will leverage IBM’s Intelligent Building Management (IIBM) system (a combination of monitoring, asset management and advanced analytics) along with Ingersoll Rand’s Energy optimisation technologies, to help trigger preventive and predictive maintenance to create Smarter Buildings.
Talking about the collaboration, Venkatesh Valluri, Chairman & President, Ingersoll Rand India said, “ This partnership is a strategic initiative where IBM and Ingersoll Rand are combining their strengths in operations and management systems to bring end-to-end managed services to customers.”
According to the worldwide energy use trends, buildings will become the largest consumer of global energy by 2025, more than the transportation and industrial sectors combined. In India , buildings account for 30% of energy consumption of which the major usage is due to HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning) and lighting. In the current economic scenario, with rising energy costs, organizations are facing capital and operating budget challenges.
According to Nipun Mehrotra, Vice President & General Manager, Sales & Business Development, IBM India/South Asia, the partnership with Ingersoll Rand will help build smarter buildings that are accountable for energy and carbon resource use which in turn will in turn will help customers reduce operating costs and increase productivity.