Luis Suau was instrumental at Cisco Systems in the development of the Cisco Digital Ceiling and Cisco Digital Building (CDB) Technologies. He was a key member of their internal research and advanced development team which begun developing the technology in 2012. The Digital Building approach is a network-based, low voltage, Power over Ethernet (POE) approach for Lighting, Shading, and many other building infrastructure systems.

In 2020, Luis left Cisco to pursue his passion of expanding the scope of Digital Building Infrastructure. Luis is now an independent Consultant to Equipment Manufacturers, Customers, and Systems Integrators that wish to understand, develop, or deploy these systems. He has also spoken at a variety of events and conferences including CiscoLive, BICSI, IES, Alliance to Save Energy, and many others. He has worked with UL, DOE(PNNL), NREL, LBL and other government labs.