Indonesia is now moving towards smart buildings, as the market for building energy management systems (BEMS) in Southeast Asia is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12.2% to 2020, new research finds. According to Frost & Sullivan’s BEMS Market in Southeast Asia, Forecast to 2020, next-generation IT solutions such as cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) are enabling the development of a new class of BEMS that offer both comfort and optimised energy performance. These systems hold great promise for commercial and industrial buildings in particular, as they can facilitate remote monitoring, energy efficiency, and systems optimisation. Most market players, even those from outside the traditional building automation markets, have already begun to introduce cloud-based BEMS platforms and services.

Addressing this growing need in smart industrial, commercial and residential buildings, building and system automation covers everything needed in this fast-evolving space—intelligent ways of using electricity, smart grids and metering, energy efficiency solutions, innovative lighting, building systems and automation, smart sensors and security, HVAC and lifts offerings. There is a particular focus on energy efficiency in buildings as it is responsible for more than 40% of the primary energy consumption in Indonesia—due to Indonesia’s hot and humid climate.