Fire Safety Gets a Digital Boost with Siemens Building X Upgrades

(IN BRIEF) Siemens Smart Infrastructure has expanded its fire safety offerings within the Building X platform, introducing new applications and an application programming interface (API). This development aims to enhance transparency, reduce response times to incidents, and streamline maintenance processes. Building X is a digital building platform that helps customers digitalize, manage, and optimize their building operations. This expansion is part of Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform for facilitating digital transformations. The Fire Apps suite includes web-based Fire Manager and mobile-based Fire Connect, allowing customers to integrate real-time data from their fire safety systems via the Fire API. These innovations promote efficiency, safety, and sustainability.

(PRESS RELEASE) ZUG, 12-Dec-2023 — /EuropaWire/ — Siemens AG (ETR: SIE), a German multinational conglomerate and Europe’s largest industrial manufacturing company, announces that Siemens Smart Infrastructure is taking a bold step in fire safety management with the introduction of new applications and an application programming interface (API) within its Building X platform. This expansion aims to boost transparency, reduce response times during incidents, and streamline maintenance processes for service providers. Building X, a digital building platform, empowers customers to digitalize, manage, and optimize their building operations, ultimately leading to an improved user experience, enhanced performance, and increased sustainability. This initiative is part of Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform designed to facilitate customers’ digital transformation more efficiently and at scale.

The Building X Fire Apps suite comprises the web-based Fire Manager and the mobile-based Fire Connect. In addition to these applications, customers can now seamlessly integrate real-time data from their connected fire safety systems into their own applications using the Fire API. This comprehensive offering is accompanied by a new licensing model, granting customers the flexibility to select the data and app bundle that best suits their unique requirements.

The Fire Apps and API are engineered to streamline customer workflows related to fire safety operation and maintenance. This results in significant time and resource savings, enhanced safety, and minimal disruption to building occupants. Service providers gain the ability to remotely monitor all sites and establish direct connections to fire panels. The apps’ dashboard, email notifications, and mobile push notifications provide easy access to real-time information on product maintenance, incidents, or alarms. This transparency allows for efficient planning, execution, and documentation of maintenance activities. Moreover, these advanced solutions drive digital transformation and deliver sustainability benefits by reducing CO2 emissions associated with annual site visits.

Peter Nebiker, Vice President and Head of Fire Safety at Siemens Smart Infrastructure, expressed enthusiasm about this development, stating, “We are excited to enhance the Building X portfolio with Fire Apps and Fire API while ensuring compatibility and cross-functionality with other smart building applications on the platform. This not only allows for a seamless and holistic solution for smart buildings, but also builds the basis for future cross-domain use cases. Additionally, it enables our service providers to offer optimized services to their customers while using available experts more efficiently. And ultimately, it pays off in terms of sustainability.”

The Fire Apps and Fire API are currently available in numerous countries worldwide, with plans for further expansion.

Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI) is shaping the market for intelligent, adaptive infrastructure for today and the future. It addresses the pressing challenges of urbanization and climate change by connecting energy systems, buildings and industries. SI provides customers with a comprehensive end-to-end portfolio from a single source – with products, systems, solutions and services from the point of power generation all the way to consumption. With an increasingly digitalized ecosystem, it helps customers thrive and communities progress while contributing toward protecting the planet. Siemens Smart Infrastructure has its global headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. As of September 30, 2023, the business had around 75,000 employees worldwide.

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a globally leading medical technology provider shaping the future of healthcare.
In fiscal 2023, which ended on September 30, 2023, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €77.8 billion and net income of €8.5 billion. As of September 30, 2023, the company employed around 320,000 people worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

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Siemens AG
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SOURCE: Siemens