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TheDubai-based Pacific Control Systems using GSM technology has devised a software that has connected about 20 per cent of the buildings in Dubai till now to a centralised control system, where civil defence assets are also connected.
On monitoring the sounding a fire alarm in a building anywhere in Ghusais, the control room after getting confirmation of its guinuity , activates its emergency responses, said Dilip Rahulan chairman of Pacific Control System LLC, on the sidelines of the RealTech Middle East 2010, a two-day conference that kicked off in the capital Tuesday. Technologists at the conference are discussing how technology could be used in buildings to not only conserve energy, attain greater operational efficiencies, bring more comfort to life and save resources.
The National Life Safety system, being run by Pacific Control Systems, Rahulan was an elaborate system that takes care of the minute operational details that can make the response to emergencies more productive.
“It is not only linked to the seven civil defence stations in the town; but also with the fire engines, who instantly are alerted of the happening of an emergency in their jurisdictions and are supplied with the necessary information required on the building where fire has happened, in order to prepare them for operation to save maximum time,” said Rahulan.
“The system is successfully running in the city, whose cost is recovered from a nominal fee charged by the Civil Defence to the building owners,” said.
Jim Young, Chief Executive Officer of Real Comm, who is spearheading the awareness for the digitalisation of lifestyle, said that the financial crisis has changed the way of thinking, to stay competitive.
Now people have started thinking how to be more efficient and competitive, he said.
The use of technology or what Jim Young called ‘Digital lifestyle’ has to be increased in coming years in not only the United States but also in the UAE and elsewhere to save on average 20 per cent of resources going waste.
“There is no need for huge housing complexes, commercial buildings, shopping malls, as using technology we can cut the size of these buildings and still be efficient,” said Jim Young.
Dr Hari Gunasingham from Six Sigma Institute in Singapore said that using process-powered eco system, a new methodology to manage buildings, his company is in a process of bringing more operational efficiencies that cut operational expenditures by up to 30 per cent.
The same methodology was being applied to the Festival City, a community comprises 3,000 apartments, he said. These processes that involve services from security to maintenance to emergency responses can be applied to cities, he said.
haseeb@khaleejtimes.com
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