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achine learning models greatly benefit from IoT sensor data. AI and IoT have long been two peas in a pod, just ask Wired.The Internet of Things (IoT) is all fun and games until it is time to buy sensors. IoT is notoriously difficult to scale and manage — 30% of IoT projects never make it past the proof-of-concept stage.But what if I told you that you already have untapped IoT sensor data in your buildings? Every modern commercial building is packed full of sensors. They are already installed and managed at scale. The problem is they are closed systems for single-purpose applications.But if you can unlock the sensor data, they can power many data science projects without requiring new hardware.Here are 5 enterprise systems you should explore tapping into:

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1. Building management systems (BMS)

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BMS includes a handful of technologies that regulate the building environment. Most commonly, they include lighting control systems and HVAC (air condition) systems.The most basic lighting control systems include motion sensors in rooms and walkways — you’ve probably had to wave your arms around in a room before when the lights cut off. More advanced lighting control systems include lumen sensors near windows that dim the lights to save power in areas where there is more natural light.The HVAC system includes temperature sensors throughout the building to regulate cooling and heating based on where it is needed.Both these systems have environmental sensors all over the building — it just takes some creative integration to make those sensor feed available to IoT applications. In fact, this transition is already happening because BMS applications benefit from IoT integration.Here’s a pseudo dataset of what you might get from a BMS motion sensor:

{
  "zoneID": 129043805,
  "zoneName": "Front Lobby",
  "events": [
    "movement": FALSE, "timestamp": "2012-04-21T18:00:00-05:00"},
    "movement": FALSE, "timestamp": "2012-04-21T18:30:00-05:00"},
    "movement": TRUE, "timestamp": "2012-04-21T19:00:00-05:00"}]
}

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