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60 I ICT TODAY Emerging PoE Technology Possibilities for the Intelligent Healthcare Market By Dwight Stewart Senior care centers have felt disruption more acutely than any sector in the healthcare field. Skilled nursing facilities, long-term care homes, and assisted living providers are confronting a series of market pressures to evolve. As such, facility owners and their executives are challenging senior leadership teams to find new efficiencies and keep residents healthy while also enhancing the resident and staff experience. As leaders pursue winning strategies to meet these challenges, data and control have emerged as critical assets. Intelligent building technology delivers both. Layering high-speed data analytics over advanced connec- tivity and environmental sensors enables unprecedented productivity. Employees at all levels are empowered by data intelligence and system controls that allow them to focus on the things that really matter to the people they serve. For a smart senior care building to fully deliver on data and control promises, however, the connected devices must be allowed to realize the superior energy efficiencies that device developers had in mind. Due to improved Power over Ethernet (PoE) standards, allowing for up to 100 W per port, the senior care industry is on the cusp of realizing the full potential of IoT-enabled facilities. This article presents a variety of data and control use cases through the lens of PoE-enabled smart building technology, revealing myriad benefits for owners, operators, employees, and the residents and family members in their care.