Case Study: Transwestern achieves smart-building efficiency with Zones

Zones Helps Property Management Firm Create Energy-Efficient Smart Building

Transwestern, working with Metropolis Investment Holdings, needed to attract tenants in a competitive real estate market, lower energy costs, and improve staff efficiency at Pennzoil Place in Houston. Zones, Inc. helped the property management firm pursue a smart-building approach using Cisco Smart+Connected Real Estate solutions and related networking, security, and communications products.

Zones, Inc. connected all 95,000 building points and systems to a Cisco fiber-optic network, integrating building controls with video surveillance, physical access control, unified communications, wireless, and digital signage. The result was centralized management of building operations, faster tenant service, and new energy insights, including the ability to adjust HVAC schedules based on sensor data and deliver network services in days instead of weeks at a fraction of the prior cost.

Transwestern

Roger Vasquez

Director of Engineering