A smart building envelope makes a smart building.

The façade is more than simply an envelope made of aluminium and glass. When equipped with smart technology, it becomes an intelligent interface between indoors and outdoors, automatically and intelligently controlling temperature, air quality, access, glare protection and sun shading in the building. Smart façades are connected to a comprehensive control system and are therefore instrumental in improving your building's energy balance, reducing time and resources spent on building management, enabling more flexible use of the property, increasing value retention, and most importantly ensuring a healthy work environment for the users and residents.

Smart Window

Automated opening and closing is only one of the many benefits offered by smart windows. The Schüco TipTronic and DriveTec drives can be integrated into the Building Skin Control platform, providing convenient ventilation functions as well as energy-efficient communication between the windows and the heating and shading systems. The Schüco SensTrack wireless sensors and the VdS-tested magnetic switches monitor the locking status of windows, sliding doors and toplights. They can be integrated in smart home systems or building management systems, ensuring smart and secure building management.

Smart Door

For Schüco, an intelligent home starts at the front door. Convenient door communication and secure access control allow a traditional front door to be transformed into an intelligent building access point using modern technology. With the Schüco DCS door management system, the Schüco BlueCon i access control module, and the Schüco Fingerprint Easy biometric access system, Schüco offers intelligent solutions which combine security, comfort and aesthetics in a single module for family homes, apartment buildings, offices and commercial buildings.

Smart Air

The type of room, the number of people using it, and the time of year all contribute to determining the perfect level of ventilation. The perfect solution can be achieved with hybrid ventilation concepts, which combine automated window ventilation via Schüco TipTronic or DriveTec drives with mechanic, decentralised ventilation systems such as Schüco VentoTherm Twist. This means you no longer have to choose between a comfortable room temperature, excellent air quality, and sustainable energy efficiency.

Carbon Control

Running a building highly efficiently is a key factor in minimising CO2 emissions and therefore in its cost-effectiveness. Solutions for smart building control, automatic night-time cooling, resource-conserving heat recovery, effective sun shading or efficient thermal insulation help users and investors to actively control the amount of operational carbon.

Energy efficiency, health, comfort and security

Smart façade units such as windows, doors and sun shading systems respond proactively to environmental conditions to reduce energy consumption. Integrated drive systems for doors and windows allow for barrier-free entrances and make even large windows and sliding doors easy to operate. Smart ventilation solutions create a comfortable, healthy indoor climate. Schüco access control systems, monitoring of closing systems, SHEVS solutions and emergency exit protection systems allow potential dangers and risks to people and property to be reduced or eliminated from the outset.