3,000 sensors at Temasek Poly can soon alert on frigid indoor sweater weather, energy waste

TEMASEK Polytechnic is looking at a solution to ensure its temperatures are not too cool for school - it will deploy a platform with more than 3,000 sensors at its 30-hectare campus to monitor energy use, and also find avenues to reduce costs and carbon emissions.

Developed by Surbana Jurong, the digital integrated facilities management (IFM) services platform is part of the polytechnic's digitalisation plans to improve work processes and operational efficiencies for its campus, Surbana Jurong said in a joint statement on Wednesday.

The infrastructure consulting firm said it will partner Internet of Things service provider UnaBiz for the deployment. It added that the digital IFM services platform, which will be one of the largest in Singapore, will provide real-time data that identifies faults, anticipates risk and predicts changing facility conditions.

James Chan, managing director of Surbana Jurong's facilities management arm SMM Pte Ltd, said that the solution will enable the institution "to receive real-time information of the environment as well as the health condition of the various mechanical and electrical systems, and to rectify them before they become faulty or waste unnecessary energy and cost as a result". He also noted that Surbana Jurong has been Temasek Polytechnic's facilities management service provider for six years.

Apart from collecting and monitoring data from the institution's air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation system, which will keep temperature and humidity levels healthy for students and campus staff, the platform can also keep track of the number of people in specific facilities, to ensure that capacity limits are not breached.

Temasek Polytechnic, which has 49 buildings spread across its campus, will use the data to identify usage patterns and reconfigure the campus to reduce operating costs, Surbana Jurong said.

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Gary Png, Temasek Polytechnic's director of estates and facilities management, said the move will "realise a substantial part of (the school's) FM Digitalisation Plan".

He added that students from the institution's diploma in integrated facility management course will also be getting hands-on learning and working experience from the system that uses real data in decision-making, as "they will be exposed to the future of facility management".