For a quarter of a century the Building Automation System (BAS) industry has been working hard at delivering connectivity across all the building technical services. They have had limited success in achieving this goal – solutions have been expensive, lacked flexibility and robustness and could not achieve the ultimate goal of fully optimising and automating the buildings performance. The solution to overcome these deficiencies is called the Building Internet of Things and the companies that are pioneering this development and shaping its future, are not BAS suppliers, but are the IT Communications, Software and Chip manufacturers. Between them they hold all the new technology to deliver the IoT content of a fully automated building. In order to do this there is also the need for drastic changes to the existing supply routes and this will have further potential to reduce the influence of the BAS suppliers. Our report – The Transformation of BAS into the […]