In 1986, Microsoft?s Redmond, Wash. campus was still a grass- and forest-covered 88-acre plot of land in a sleepy, one-stoplight suburb of Seattle.
Today the campus spans 500 acres and 125 buildings. There?s a soccer field and cricket pitch, miles of wooded walking paths ? and 14.9 million square feet of office space and labs that function as an interconnected ?smart city? thanks to an ?Internet of Things meets Big Data? software solution developed by a small team of Microsoft facilities engineers.
The software, which is saving Microsoft millions of dollars, has been so successful that the company and its partners are now helping building managers across the world deploy the same solution. And with commercial buildings consuming an estimated 40 percent of the world?s total energy, the potential is huge.
Read the story of how Microsoft built the city of the future today on the Microsoft News Center.
Posted by Jeff Meisner
Editor, The Official Microsoft Blog
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