Last week, tech giant Google announced the open-sourcing of two digital smart building resources; the TensorFlow Smart Buildings Simulator and an accompanying smart building data set. This announcement adds to a growing body of open-source smart building resources. Open sourcing is already fundamental to the software development process, for smart buildings and across the technology landscape. This is emphasized by “Census II of Free and Open Source Software – Application Libraries” —a March 2022 study by The Linux Foundation, in partnership with the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), which estimated that free and open source software constitutes 70-90% of any given piece of modern software. “Open-source software is the foundation of 99% of the world’s software,” said Martin Woodward, VP of developer relations at GitHub. “There are a number of benefits to open source, from providing an environment to work fast and flexibly, to enabling collaboration from developers around the world. No single […]