Smart Building

A smart building is a building with intensively networked control and management of indoor environmental aspects such as lighting and temperature, security, power, and movement data. The integration of all of these produces various advantages. Energy-saving and efficient building management and the optimum allocation of energy reduces the amount of energy consumed, encouraging environmental friendliness. The implementation of intelligent systems improves efficiency and brings with it a new work style, improving the safety and comfort of the people who use the building. The key point among these is, as expected, eco-friendliness. The systems that the building uses are crucial to achieving the three facets of "creating energy", "saving energy", and "accumulating energy", and a rapid adoption of smart building systems for offices, commercial facilities, and even high-rise apartment buildings - any building where people gather - is expected.
System reliability and safety is crucial to achieving a smart building. Thus, it is necessary to select highly reliable microcontrollers. In addition, the microcontrollers need to have low power, eco-friendly specifications. Finally, optimal solutions for efficiently controlling complicated and advanced systems are important ingredients for configuring the system.
Renesas Electronics offers an abundant lineup of highly reliable and high-performance microcontroller, discrete, and other products optimal for smart buildings that thoroughly meet low power requirements, as well as a great number of smart building application solutions. Renesas Electronics contributes to the realization of a sustainable society by providing comprehensive solutions for smart building.