Aetos launches high-tech command centre that integrates security and building management
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Aetos' Next-Generation 5G-Capable Integrated Command Centre is powered by cloud-based data analytics.
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SINGAPORE - Security company Aetos has built an integrated command centre that can monitor all aspects of building operations for its clients.
The centre combines three key functions of running buildings: security operations by using cameras to monitor suspicious activity, safety aspects, such as ensuring that lifts and fire sprinklers are working, and water and electricity usage to ensure that electricity and utilities are working optimally, which is known as integrated facilities management (FM).
This comes as the Government pushes for more firms to adopt integrated FM, so as to overcome growing manpower constraints as society continues to age and workforce growth slows down.
The new centre means Aetos joins other security players here like Certis that offer customers both security and FM services under one roof with the help of technology.
The centre was launched on Wednesday (March 16) by Minister for National Development Desmond Lee and Aetos Holdings executive director Alfred Fox at the company's complex in Corporation Drive.
In his speech at the launch, Mr Lee lauded the company for its FM efforts and expressed his hope that more companies will use technology to improve productivity.
He noted how building owners and developers can tap a $30 million grant to help pay for technologies as part of their FM as well as for retrofitting costs. The grant was announced in Parliament last week.
"Firms can be much more efficient and productive by managing different FM services on a single integrated platform. They can also help to enhance sustainability by reducing demand for resources like electricity and water," he said.
The grant will be available from the second half of 2022 for a period of three years. It will support around 10 to 15 projects, with at least three buildings for each project.
To qualify for the grant, building owners must rework their procurement practices and processes to integrate at least three FM services in at least three buildings in their portfolio.
Mr Lee also noted that many government agencies, including the JTC Corporation and the Housing Board, have already started to adopt integrated and aggregated FM for their buildings.
(From left) Surbana Jurong Group chief executive Wong Heang Fine, Minister for National Development Desmond Lee, Mr Chaly Mah, Chairman of Surbana Jurong Group; and Mr Alfred Fox, Executive Director and CEO of AETOS Holdings.
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Aetos' new centre is operated by 10 people at any one time. The company declined to disclose the cost of building the centre and the number of clients it currently serves.
This centre was developed together with Surbana Jurong's facilities management teams, of which Aetos is a member.
Companies behind the centre's software include Singtel, which provided the 5G network, and Vizzio Technologies, which offered the 3D illustrations.
