Support Smart Building Technology with VELCRO® Brand Products

Integrating all of the systems within your building continues to grow more and more important. Smart building technology can help you bring your systems together, increasing efficiencies across many applications and making processes easier to monitor and control. You can use this technology to connect utilities in commercial spaces - think climate control, security, datacom and more. Integrated Buildings require systems to control their HVAC, communications, lighting security and digital displays. All of the data from those systems flows to a control room, where it can be collected, monitored and measured. Building managers then use that data to control utilities, identify potential issues and address them quickly. 

Of course, as you're considering how to integrate the systems within your building - because who doesn't want a more efficient building? - you also need to consider how you'll organize those systems. All of this technology requires plenty of support for new equipment and cables. Due to their flexibility and reusability, VELCRO^® Brand products serve as ideal tools to support Integrated Buildings and the smart building systems that enable them. 

How VELCRO^® Brand Products Support Smart Building Cables & Devices

Many of these Integrated Building systems use Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology, which combines the data and power in a single cable. Using PoE means fewer cables in a bundle, but there are still many cables required to connect every system together and transmit the data to the control room. Given all of their functions, it's especially important to manage them with care. VELCRO^® Brand ONE-WRAP^® Tape is a flexible cable bundling option that protects cables from over cinching, as opposed to plastic ties. Since they can be unfastened and refastened easily, they simplify the process of moves, adds and changes throughout your building. They include a fire retardant option for working in plenum space and help installations align with many industry standards such as BICSI and ANSI/TIA.

Much of the new technology that comprises an Integrated Building requires mounting, including security cameras, digital signage and remotes. VELCRO^® Brand adhesive backed fasteners are ideal for secure fastening to wherever devices need to be placed, enabling you to install your equipment safely out of the way while retaining the ability to easily remove and replace it whenever needed.

Check out this diagram on how a security system is structured and how VELCRO^® Brand products are applied:

1. Cables are organized in each cabinet of a data center
2. Devices can be mounted and cables kept clean in the control room
3. Cable pathways bundled and managed
4. Cables are clean and easy to identify in each control panel
5. Pathways are organized in plenum space with fire retardant cable management
6. Cables are organized in the office or on the manufacturing floor to reduce clutter and tripping hazards.

VELCRO^® Brand products make it easy to organize, install and manage the components of your Integrated Building. Contact your local Accu-Tech representative to learn more, or visit their page on our website.