IoT for operations, maintenance and energy management.

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An ITP Media Group Publication | DECEMBER 2019 | Vol. 14 Issue 12
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Adeptus
Saji Muhammed Salih
Head of IoT& Managed Services
What is your firm looking forward to
next year? What will the focus be?
We continue to strive towards creating
lasting friendships with the FM
community and would like to be the
very fabric that projects the community
as value drivers. These are interesting
times for every FM entity and building
owners as they have to continuously
evolve by adopting smarter technologies
to address market dynamics at the same
time focus on creating a better, smarter,
greener and secure living experience.
We at Adeptus Technologies are here
for the community, supplementing as
an integral part of this smart technology
transformation and adoption.
As a start to the new landmark year
of 2020 and Dubai playing host to the
World Expo, we would also like to
publicly announce a new scheme for
the benefit of the FM community by
offering our IOT platform as a service.
A true value offering where, customers
can pick and choose applications and
services based on their requirements
and budgets. The objective is to ensure
easy adoption of mission critical
technologies by making it scalable,
affordable to all and help facilities
managers cut across silos, irrespective
of what industry they’re in, be it a
small pharmacy, a 700-bed hospital,
a dates packing unit or an aircraft
manufacturing plant.
Any more product launches/
enhancements we can expect?
Every day, we are listening and learning
and for the short-term future, we are
continuously enhancing machine
learning enabled algorithms and AI.
Although backed by clear vision, we are
excited to tread new roads in dynamic
Dubai and elsewhere in the region.
A Q1 2020 launch of a few newer
solutions that are currently under test-
phase in our IoT development Lab, is
eagerly anticipated by the team. These
solutions will specifically address
manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality
and retail sectors. As an example,
manufacturing plants will be able to
increase their production efficiency
using the equipment effectively,
predict and rectify faults before it can
cause a delay in production and avoid
production of defective products.
Predictive analysis, machine learning
and AI will be a plugin standard for all
the new launches, slated for early 2020.
What are some of the company’s
greatest achievements in 2019?
Several hours of listening and
interacting with our clients and tireless
work from our R&D and software
development team created our in-house
IOT platform BuildingTalkz. As on
date, we have successfully connected
more than 25 million sq.ft of mixed use
including home, commercial and retail
space across the region, onboarding
10,000+ assets for some of our
prestigious clients, who are themselves
leaders across various industry
verticals.
Testimony to our achievement is on-
boarding key elite accounts including:
• One of the largest real estate and
property developer in the world
• One of the top ranked educational
institution chain, globally
• The largest banking organisation in
the GCC region
What are the challenges your firm
faced in the industry and your
strategy to overcome them?
This is a combination of various factors,
both internal and external. But, in
general, although customers are curious
and want to be early adopters of cutting-
edge technologies, there is still a fair
amount of hesitation. Convincing them
could mean change in key processes
and more importantly, expectations
are high due to not having had the best
results while previously using legacy
technology not living up to that high
expectation. Our approach is to let
our work speak for itself and see an
increasing trend in visits (at our 24x7
Command and Control Centre) from
and POCs for large and reputed players
from the facilities management and
building owners community. Feedback is
positive and they are enthusiastic about
the potential and adoption of Building
Talkz, as an IOT platform of choice.
We are here to help in streamlining
operations and create value to end users,
at the same time, trimming costs and
create overall efficiency from a day-to-
day perspective.