When we set up Metrikus, the
intention of the company was to make sure
we created a platform
to give people a better understanding
of what's going on in their buildings.
Very much we're about connecting
to the built environment
to agnostic data sources,
aggregating that data, transforming it
and presenting it to our partners
and customers as a single point
integration, but also for business
intelligence around the built environment.
We have this once in a lifetime
opportunity to redefine
how people will work in the future.
We believe Microsoft
Azure Cloud is the answer.
We need to look at sustainability
and we need to be able
to give people data to make more informed
decisions about their building.
We do that by combining world class
technology and visualisations
with the very best sensors.
There's many different devices
in the IoT world to connect to.
Really the aggregation of
that is really important
because we're presenting it
in a really sort of slick way at our
front end for customers
to take the hassle out of integration
in a smart building. With Azure
it has a unique service called IoT Hub
that's enabled us to connect
millions and billions of data sources.
Security, scale, performance, resilience,
all of those things are what made us make
the final decision with Microsoft Azure.
I was lucky enough to work closely
with Accenture for the headquarter
move in Madrid.
The challenge was to build a space
that fused technology and human ingenuity,
along with the sustainability value
promise to achieve the net zero 2025
environmental goals.
And in a very short space of time,
Accenture was able to improve
the efficiency of their daily management
of their building.
CO2 levels were also improved,
and Accenture was able to develop
predictive occupancy
model training to save energy
while preserving employee comfort.
Another great example is the work
that we've done with the Met Office.
We provided them with our front-end
and our back-end.
This gave them the full benefit
of the Metrikus platform.
The net result
they saw was a 20% saving on HVAC efficiencies
and this is just
the start of their journey.
Our customers right across the world
are experiencing similar benefits
and at a time
when being efficient is not only essential
from a sustainable perspective,
but an economic one too.
As customer subscriptions
continue to accelerate
and availability
to data sets widen, having Azure IoT
as the cloud on which this is
built is key to our success.