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Siemens Smart Infrastructure announced a collaboration agreement with Microsoft to transform access to Internet of Things (IoT) data for buildings. The collaboration will enable interoperability between Siemens' digital building platform, Building X, and Microsoft Azure IoT Operations, enabled by Azure Arc. Azure IoT Operations, a component of this adaptive cloud approach, provides tools and infrastructure to connect edge devices while integrating data—enabling organizations to optimize their operations and harness the potential of their IoT environments.
The interoperability of Building X and Azure IoT Operations is making IoT-based data more accessible for large enterprise customers across commercial buildings, data centers, and higher education facilities, providing them with the information needed to enhance sustainability and operations. It enables automatic onboarding and monitoring by bringing data points such as temperature, pressure, or indoor air quality to the cloud for assets like heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, valves, and actuators. The solution will also allow customers to develop their own in-house use cases, such as energy monitoring and space optimization.
The collaboration leverages established open industry standards, including the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web of Things (WoT), which describes the metadata and interfaces of hardware and software, as well as the Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) for communication of data to the cloud. Both Siemens and Microsoft are members of the W3C and the OPC Foundation, which develop standards and guidelines that help build an industry based on accessibility, interoperability, privacy, and security.
The interoperability between Siemens’ Building X and Azure IoT Operations will be available from the second half of 2025.
Building X is a digital building platform that helps customers digitalize, manage, and optimize their building operations—paving the way for sustainable, autonomous, and profitable assets. It is part of Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform that enables customers to accelerate their digital transformation more easily, quickly, and at scale.
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