According to Idan Udi Edry of Nation-E, the smart buildings industry has evolved past a dutiful attitude towards cyber-security, and instead displays “an attraction and curiosity” for the topic. “This year there was a change”, Edry says. “For a quarter of a century the BAS industry has been working hard at delivering full connectivity across all the different building services. More recently with the introduction of IP Networked product across many of the services improved solutions have been made possible”, explains our recent report on the Transformation of BAS into the Building Internet of Things. “With the advent of IoT we now have the capability to join “things” together more efficiently and cost effectively in a building. This technology can collect data from all the sensors and devices and with Big Data software, analyze all of this data and immediately optimise and fully automate the buildings performance”, continues the report. However, this increased connectivity also brings about vulnerability […]