— Jason Falbo , Chief Technology Officer , Mircom Group data . Things like the temperature of different zones , the humidity levels , power consumption , light levels . All of those pieces of information can be used to optimize building comfort for the occupants and to keep the operating costs down for the management companies .” Gathering this data typically involves a hybrid cloud architecture wherein edge devices act as gateways , promoting data to the cloud for monitoring systems . Securing that data , meanwhile , are bestin-class Microsoft cloud services , with all data written to Azure Storage being encrypted and access tightly controlled .

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