SINGAPORE: Boustead Projects Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Getronics Solutions, the Singapore unit of Getronics on a collaboration which will offer integrated smart building solutions for industrial buildings, industrial parks and integrated digital cities.

Boustead is Singapore’s leading real estate solutions provider for smart eco-sustainable business park and industrial developments. Getronics is a leading global information and communications technology service provider.

This collaboration is intended to enable Boustead Projects to deliver next generation smart industrial buildings by leveraging on Getronics’ technologies and is expected to augment Boustead Projects’ integrated suite of innovative, transformative real estate solutions addressing the entire lifecycle of industrial buildings.

The MOU was signed at the Singapore Built Environment Week 2019 organised by the Building & Construction Authority.

The implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and automation in smart buildings has led to increasingly complex building management systems often comprising multiple disparate systems and devices. This makes it challenging for facility managers to effectively integrate the different systems and devices in order to achieve intended productivity and efficiency gains.

In most cases, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are already ‘smart’ in a stand-alone way but a true smart building experience is created by enabling and automating multiple simultaneous business processes between multiple heterogeneous systems.

Getronics’ technologies will empower Boustead Projects to leverage unified, ‘single pane of glass’ building management solutions that enable the effective integration and interoperability of multiple connected systems across an entire portfolio of properties.

Thomas Chu, Managing Director of Boustead Projects, said “Just as being a one-stop provider for integrated real estate solutions has allowed Boustead Projects to meet the diverse, unique needs of our growing client base, we believe that integrated smart building solutions are also key towards developing effective, workable solutions for next generation smart buildings. Leveraging on Getronics’ technologies for smart buildings will further augment our integrated suite of innovative, transformative real estate solutions addressing an entire building lifecycle. Getronics is a proven technology partner of choice and we look forward to forging a synergistic partnership with them, capitalising on our exciting pipeline of development projects as well as the other strategic platforms we have established to support our regional and sectoral expansion.”

Mukul Jain, Managing Director APAC and International of Getronics, said “We are proud to collaborate with an innovative and trusted player in the real estate market like Boustead Projects. Singapore is the perfect place to push our own boundaries in innovation and creativity with an intelligent infrastructure that will define and showcase the future of smart buildings.”