Smart Building Adoption Is Not Digital Maturity

ASHB's 2025 summary reported that 91% of surveyed organisations used smart-building systems and average spending exceeded US$550,000.[1] The full methodology is restricted, so the figures remain a directional North American adoption signal.

Analysis

System presence does not prove interoperability, operator adoption, cyber resilience or measurable outcomes.

Osmos Global analysis: maturity should be assessed through governed decisions and closed-loop action. A smaller system that reliably improves operations may be more mature than a broad platform that produces unused dashboards.

Leadership implication: investment inventories should be supplemented with evidence of workflows, owners, response and verified value.

Decision lens

Recommended action. Classify every connected system by the decision it improves and the outcome it has demonstrated.