The emergence of IP technology and open standard communications platforms has changed the way we are able to view and control traditional security and other building management systems.

In the past, our security control systems and building systems were controlled as separate entities with no physical or logical connection. Today, managers are more aware of the increased efficiency available by converging all of the different systems that are required to run a large or distributed facility. Whether this is manifested in direct personnel cost-cutting or indirect energy saving procedures, the financial savings are extensive.

Technological advances such as the Internet allow us to transfer and manage the most sensitive of data quicker and safer than ever thought possible. And, crucially, the proliferation of open platforms, such as UPnP™, breaks down the barriers to the convergence of security and building systems by providing a single language with which all of the different kinds of systems can communicate with each other.

Now, with the aid of such technologies, RISCO Group is able to utilize their industry know-how to provide a basis on which facility managers are able to control all their systems on one single platform and attain true convergence for a more cost effective and centralized system.