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Business Areas
Automation and Control 51
Siemens Building Technologies (SBT)
energy management services, we help
optimize system performance, reliability
and efficiency. Around-the-clock remote
surveillance and remote operation, cou-
pled with the networking of IT-based
building operations and customers’ busi-
ness systems, ensure high cost and opera-
tional transparency.
The market for safety solutions and
building automation will continue to
grow, driven by the demand for greater
safety and security in hotels, skyscrapers,
airports, sports stadiums and other large-
scale structures. At the same time, the
need for ever-greater energy efficiency –
to minimize resource consumption and
environmental impact – is creating a high-
growth market for sophisticated building
automation systems. In both of these
promising areas, we hold a strong posi-
tion and are achieving above-average
growth.
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SBT cooperates closely with
customers to create fire
safety and energy manage-
ment solutions that make
buildings safer, more effi-
cient and more comfortable
for as long as they remain
in use.
What can be done to cut energy
consumption in glass-and-steel
high-rise buildings?
Using our Total Building Solutions,
operators can carefully configure
and control heating, ventilation and
air-conditioning systems to continu-
ously optimize energy consumption
throughout a building’s lifecycle.
In today’s crowded urban areas, space is
often at a premium. So it’s no wonder
that buildings are getting taller and taller.
Huge structures like the 452-meter
Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and Tai-
wan’s 508-meter Taipei 101 – which can
accommodate up to several thousand
people – require highly efficient technical
infrastructures and power supplies and
must meet exacting safety and security
standards.
We provide all the products and
systems needed to maximize building
performance, cut operating costs and
increase productivity. Our building tech-
nologies – encompassing everything from
heating, ventilation and air-conditioning
systems to fire protection systems, emer-
gency evacuation solutions, access con-
trols and closed-circuit TV monitoring –
are all tailored to our customers’ specific
needs. Already in the planning phase, we
focus on a building’s entire lifecycle. This
approach results in cost certainty as well
as optimal flexibility for any later modern-
izations or utilization changes. As a
provider of maintenance, operating and
Highlights in fiscal 2006
• As the world’s third-largest supplier of
safety and security solutions, we equipped
stadiums with complete building manage-
ment and security systems for the Soccer
World Cup 2006.
• We received an order from India’s Benga-
luru International Airport to supply a total
security solution – complete with access
control, security management, intrusion
protection, fire safety and video surveil-
lance systems.
• We’re supplying a comprehensive security
infrastructure and operating the command
and control center for the Palm Islands,
a man-made atoll off the coast of Dubai.