Following a major industry discussion around the future of connected buildings, Mymesh is taking the conversation to Smart Buildings Show 2026
Taking place at ExCeL London across the 14th and 15th of October, Smart Buildings Show comes just two weeks after Mymesh joined Tridonic, Giacomini, Landsec and representatives from across the built environment for Talking Buildings, an event that asked a simple question: if a building could talk, what would it say?
The discussion highlighted an important reality. Buildings already generate huge amounts of information. They can tell us where energy is being wasted, which spaces are sitting empty and which assets may be approaching failure. The technology to access that information exists; the challenge is connecting it, understanding it and, most importantly, acting on it.
For Mymesh, this is where the smart building conversation needs to go next. Buildings increasingly contain intelligent lighting, HVAC, metering, security, access, sensors and other connected technologies. But when those systems continue to operate independently, each with separate controls, gateways and software, adding more technology does not necessarily make the building more intelligent.
Ashley Bateup, Managing Director of Mymesh UK, said, “We have spent years making individual products and systems smarter, but the bigger opportunity now is getting those systems to work together.
“A building might already know that a space is empty, that energy is being wasted or that an asset needs attention. The question is whether that information reaches the right place and leads to an action.
“That was one of the most important conversations to come out of the recent Tridonic Talking Buildings event, and it is one we want to continue at Smart Buildings Show. We need to move beyond measuring intelligence by how many devices we can connect and start looking at what those connections actually allow a building, and the people responsible for it, to achieve.”
Rather than relying on a conventional hierarchy of separate area controllers, gateways and systems, Mymesh creates a distributed network in which devices connect with their neighbours and intelligence can be shared across the building.
Lighting provides a natural backbone for this approach. It is already powered and distributed throughout almost every part of a building where people are present. Connected lighting can therefore become part of a wider digital infrastructure capable of supporting not only illumination, but occupancy, environmental monitoring, emergency compliance, energy management, asset tracking and other building services.
This changes the question from what can this individual product do? to what can the building tell us?
While a building may take only a few years to design and construct, its operational life can extend for decades. During that time, tenants, working patterns, regulations, technologies and expectations around energy and performance will all change.
Creating an infrastructure capable of adapting to those changes shifts the value of smart building technology beyond initial control and towards the information and operational insight it can provide throughout the building’s life.
However, the discussions at Talking Buildings also made clear that no single technology provider can achieve this in isolation.
Richard Strode, Managing Director of Tridonic UK, said, “One of the strongest messages from our Talking Buildings event was that no single organisation has all the answers. The technology exists across our industry, but the real opportunity comes when we bring that expertise together and create greater commonality in how our systems communicate and work. That thinking led to our call for a Connected Buildings Alliance. Tridonic, Mymesh and Giacomini are a starting point, but this needs to be a much wider industry conversation.”
Mymesh will use its presence on Stand C10 at Smart Buildings Show to continue those discussions with consultants, contractors, OEMs, system integrators, building owners, facilities teams, technology partners and beyond.
Ashley Bateup will also take to the stage for the session “Lighting and Climate Convergence: A New Paradigm for Smart Buildings”, taking place in the Controls & Networks Theatre on Thursday the 15th of October from 13:00–13:35. The session will demonstrate how intelligent lighting, smart hydronic climate control and wireless IoT can converge around occupancy-led intelligence.
Ashley added, “What we want from the Smart Buildings Show is conversation. We want to hear from the people designing these buildings, installing the technology and living with it operationally.
“What gets in the way? Where is unnecessary complexity being introduced? What information would genuinely help an operator make a better decision? And what could we achieve if different manufacturers and systems were able to work together more easily?
“We know the technology can do it. The next challenge is making it simpler, scalable and repeatable – and that requires the industry to work together.”
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