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C h a p t e r 5 FUTURE-PROOF BUILDINGS In a Singapore office tower, an AI system just made 10,000 micro-adjustments to lighting, HVAC, and airflow in a single second—all based on real-time data from sensors that didn't exist when the building was designed five years ago. The infrastructure capability to support technologies still in research labs when construction began enabled this intelligent operation. Across the Pacific, a similar building completed just two years later sits largely "dumb" because its connectivity infrastructure cannot support the bandwidth, power, and protocol requirements of today's intelligent building technologies. The difference between a future-ready building and a technological dead end often comes down to decisions made in the planning phase about connectivity standards that won't mature for years to come. Why Today's Advanced Systems Become Tomorrow's Limitations The physics of information processing reveals why current building automation systems will become inadequate for future applications through fundamental scaling challenges that incremental improvements cannot address. Current systems process simple data requiring modest bandwidth and processing capabilities. Future AI-driven systems will process high-resolution video streams, continuous sensor arrays, and real-time analytics that demand bandwidth levels orders of magnitude higher than current applications can support. Building automation is evolving rapidly, and at Amphenol Sensors, we're building the intelligent sensing infrastructure that makes real-time, adaptive building control possible." Jeffery Tucker CEM, CMVP, Industrial Field Application Engineer, Americas Region, Amphenol Sensors 25 Industrial-Grade Building Automation: Rugged, Reliable, Smart