Smart Buildings CNS
The UK’s leading Converged Networks Systems (CNS) experts
Ideal has unparalleled experience in delivering and managing Smart Building secure networking and advanced wireless infrastructure. We’re the people behind Battersea Power Station, 150 Holborn, Co-op Live, and 22 Bishopsgate, to name just a few of the 40+ smart buildings we’ve helped to create.
Tackling the big Smart Building challenges
Delivering a CNS in a construction environment differs significantly from the deployment of a network in a working commercial environment. While it may not carry the same profile and cost as other new build trades, the CNS is critical.
Successful implementation requires not only technical expertise, but also deep understanding of construction processes, on-site protocols and stakeholder coordination.
These capabilities only come from real-life experience spanning technical, commercial, and project management domains, working to an entirely different set of priorities and expectations in comparison with a typical IT project.
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Experience you can lean on throughout
We have designed and installed CNS and Advanced Wi-Fi for some of the UK’s most notable Smart Buildings.
CNS as the backbone of your project
In today’s data-driven world, investors, asset managers, and building teams rely on connected systems to make informed decisions, support service charge pricing, and optimise shared spaces for maximum value.
The CNS forms the backbone of your Smart Building, connecting Information Technology (IT), Operational Technology (OT), and Internet of Things (IoT), such as HVAC and lighting; lifts and escalators; CCTV, Intercoms and Access Control; Energy Management Systems; and of course, advanced Wi-fi services.
The CNS also enables secure integration with Building Management Systems and Smart applications to gather key information for real-time monitoring and historical analysis. It also provide the automation to constantly tune building components ensuring optimum user, environmental, and building management team experiences.
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Understanding the Construction Lifecycle
Whether your requirements are a branch office fit out or major construction programme – in a new build or retrofit project– we can provide support and guidance across the full project lifecycle.
Aligning with the RIBA stages as appropriate or required, we can liaise with your team, – as well as architects, consultants, main contractors and sub-contractors – to ensure a fully connected experience, in more ways than one.
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The Intelligent Ready Building (IRB) approach
Ideal is a founder member of a consortium of Smart Building experts, including technology leader Cisco, BMS experts Schneider, and data platform specialists Para, that has created the Intelligent Ready Building (IRB) approach.
IRB provides a Smart Building blueprint, delivering a proven scalable, robust, and secure integrated infrastructure of OT, IT and IOT technologies, customised for your own distinct features and capabilities.
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Smart Managed Services
Ideal has a long-established track record in providing leading-edge 24/7/365 network and cyber security Smart Managed Services, working as a highly skilled extension of your IT and Facilities Management team.
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Ideal Smart Buildings in action
150 Holborn
Delivering a secure, scalable, and flexible network infrastructure to enable one of the smartest buildings in Europe.
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Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station is a 42 acre mixed-use development which is home to shops, bars, restaurants, hotels and luxury apartments, leisure and entertainment venues, parks and historical spaces.
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Co-op Live
Advanced CNS and award-winning high-density Wi-Fi delivering an outstanding experience for 23,500 music lovers.
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Expert design
Our brilliant team know how to translate building services partner requirements into the design, ensuring a network that is adaptable, scalable and secure.
Smooth installation
We understand the methodology of delivering IT into a construction project. We’ll remove the inherent risks and ensure project completion is delivered on time and in budget.
Dependable support
Our Smart Managed Service offers support that is agile, responsive and built to adapt to the fast changing demands of a smart building, ensuring total visibility and connectivity at all times.
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