Cognian Syncromesh wireless canopy

Cognian’s Syncromesh is a wireless canopy that makes any building a smart building. Using the canopy, building owners can quickly and simply add a range of building management solutions to lower a building’s carbon footprint and reduce energy costs, regardless of the building’s size, location or age.

The smart canopy brings lighting control, location-based services, HVAC control and asset tracking together wirelessly, with open standard interfaces and advanced services to enable the smart building retrofit market.

The technology is claimed to deliver an energy-efficient upgrade at a fraction of the cost of wired smart building alternatives and to improve the wellness and comfort of building occupants, lower a building’s carbon footprint, reduce energy consumption and contribute to a more productive environment for tenants.

With its open platform, Syncromesh works with a number of manufacturers then connects all of the various control systems together. This means that lighting controls from one manufacturer can talk to HVAC controls of a different manufacturer. Each light contains a small Bluetooth beacon, which communicates to a gateway device. Syncromesh sits above this to control the system and allow each element to network.