BEMS

Just look down a listing of Enterprise Energy Management (EEM) suppliers and you will find a mixture of some of the world’s leading ICT organisations and small new start specialist software companies fighting hard to get established in this burgeoning market. The 2 major prongs of the business lie in making Smart Buildings much smarter […]

Over the last 20 years many billions of dollars have been invested throughout the world in making commercial and industrial buildings energy efficient. Much of this has been spent on more efficient HVAC hardware and further improving efficiency through DDC control systems. Initially the driver was to reduce operating costs through minimising energy consumption but […]

Memoori highlights the growing market for intelligent building controls and the huge opportunity presented by interfacing Smart Buildings with the Smart Grid. The size of the world market for Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS); DDC controls that monitor and control environmental plant in industrial and commercial buildings was $13.39 billion in 2011 and Memoori forecasts […]

The literal meaning of the expression “The King is Dead – Long Live the King is that the king has died, and it is hoped that the new king will live a long time. But the reasoning for the statement goes deeper. A speedy succession, to the throne was needed to avoid a power vacuum […]

There is an almost perfect case for interfacing Smart Buildings with Smart Grid because all the stakeholders win. It will require minimum technical and commercial risk and decades of latent potential business is stacked up waiting to be converted. The driver for this business is, Negawatts, through reducing consumption at the consumer end and reducing […]