Control solutions are one of the most cost effective ways to substantially reduce operational, maintenance and energy bills in commercial buildings. However, most corporate real estate (CRE) managers still think of controls as expensive. This view is often due to a lack of awareness of today’s market disruptive innovators and new delivery channels, according to Mike Welch, Managing Director of Control Network Solutions (CNS). “As the cost of energy has recently fallen, the energy saving capabilities of building controls are no longer its only key feature – flexibility and whether the system is ‘future-proof’ are now of significant importance”, explained Welch in his recent white paper. In the paper Welch suggests that recent developments in lighting and the Internet of Things (IoT) has fundamentally changed the way we view and implement control solutions in a building – and he’s not alone in his opinion. The transition to LEDs for lighting has come at the same time as the […]