Siemens partners with Microsoft to boost IoT compatibility for building systems
The tech giant Microsoft and industrial powerhouse Siemens Smart Infrastructure have joined forces to improve digital building management through advanced cloud and AI technologies. This collaboration, centred around Azure IoT Operations and Siemens' Building X, is set to revolutionise the way buildings interact with IoT data.
Key features of this partnership include: - The integration of Siemens' Building X platform with Microsoft Azure IoT Operations, enabling seamless access and interoperability of IoT data from various building systems. - The utilisation of Azure’s cloud-native scalability, AI integration, and semantic modeling capabilities to enhance the management, analysis, and real-time operational control of building environments. - Leveraging Microsoft Azure Digital Twins technology for creating detailed digital representations of buildings, paving the way for better lifecycle management and operational efficiency. - Advanced AI-powered analytics for reducing energy consumption, operational costs, and improving occupant comfort and safety.
The collaboration, which embraces open industry standards such as W3C Web of Things (WoT) and OPC UA for communication of data to the cloud, is expected to be available on the market from the second half of 2025.
Susanne Seitz, the CEO of Siemens Smart Infrastructure Buildings, expressed her enthusiasm for the collaboration, stating that it reflects a shared vision of enabling customers to harness the full potential of IoT through open standards and interoperability.
Erich Barnstedt, the senior director and Architect of the corporate standards group at Microsoft, commented that Siemens shares Microsoft's focus on interoperability and open IoT standards, and that this collaboration is a significant step forward in making IoT data more actionable.
This partnership is part of a wider ongoing digital transformation trend, with the collaboration aligning with the broader industrial digital transformation trends highlighted in 2022 and continuing to advance through 2024-2025 as AI, cloud, and digital twin technologies mature.
The solution offers portfolio managers granular visibility into critical metrics such as energy efficiency and consumption. One-click device onboarding to the cloud and efficient data exchange are additional benefits of this collaboration. This marks one of the first integrations of IoT data purely based on open standards across providers.
Microsoft's strategy underscores its commitment to partnering with industry leaders to empower customers with greater choice and control over their IoT solutions. The collaboration aims to provide customers with a solution that offers benefits such as improved energy efficiency, reduced operational costs, and enhanced occupant comfort and safety.
- This industry-leading collaboration between Microsoft and Siemens Smart Infrastructure, covering data-and-cloud-computing, finance, and technology, aims to revolutionize the building management industry by integrating Siemens' Building X with Microsoft Azure IoT Operations, leveraging Azure's scalability, AI, and semantic modeling capabilities.
- The synergy between these two giants, rooted in common beliefs of interoperability and open IoT standards, will culminate in a solution that offers benefits such as granular visibility into critical metrics, one-click device onboarding to the cloud, and efficient data exchange, setting a precedent for open standard-based IoT data integrations in the finance and technology sectors.
