2018 voice buyer’s guide for smart buildings

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What are the two choices?
To control your building’s devices and systems with voice, you can now use a smart speaker (the hardware solution), intelligent IoT messaging (the software solution), or both.

What do you want to achieve with voice? It’s not a rhetorical question. Answer the question of what exactly it is that you want to achieve. Happy tenants? Reduced costs? Increased rents or sales prices? This is not a trick question, there is no “right” or “wrong” answer. But it is a question you must answer, thoughtfully. As everyone’s grandfather told them at some point — if you don’t know where you want to go, how will you know if you get there? Early adopters with money to burn can skip this. But if you’re running a business, and you are directly accountable for the ROI of every Dollar, Euro, or Dirham you spend, start with what it is you want to achieve.

Remember that your smart building is just one part of the larger voice ecosystem. It connects to everything else in your smart city’s infrastructure — including shopping, transportation, healthcare, education, and housing. People are already beginning to control their lives through voice. While it may have started at home controlling IoT devices, it now extends into your building.

What criteria should I consider?

Here’s a worksheet to get you started. Only you can prioritize the list, but it will include the following criteria along with the additional ones which are unique to your building:

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