Big data and its analysis in commercial buildings refers to a multitude of different types of data including traditional enterprise and business system data including customer information from CRM systems, transactional data from ERP systems, financial information such as budgets and lease management data. Information and telecommunications data from networked IT functions including voice and video (increasingly from mobile devices) contributes further streams of valuable data. Our new report – Big Data in Smart Buildings; Market Prospects 2015 to 2020 – looks at how some 10 different Building Automation Services (BAS) are now producing vast amounts of data to control and monitor the building services performance. Data from building systems can now be aggregated and analyzed alongside data that originates outside a facility, such as utility bills, and information that affects a facility’s operations, such as weather forecasts or energy prices. This rich cache of data offers users a bigger picture of their building operations […]