BEMS
The Global Market for Building Energy Management Systems will Reach Over $23bn by 2017, Predicts Memoori Research
October 16th, 2013The Future Impact of Machine Learning & Predictive Analysis on Building Energy Management
September 20th, 2013The Impact of LED Lighting on the BEMS Industry
There is a discussion now taking place in the Smart Building business that the transition to LED lighting may trigger a change in the way the BEMS industry works. The rationale goes that historically, building controls applications have been HVAC-centric since that was the element of the building where controls could add significant value. In […]
Interfacing Smart Buildings with Smart Grid Provides the Most Practical and Cost Effective Solution for Reducing CO2 Emissions from Buildings
If governments across the developed world went ahead and created the necessary incentives for the investment needed to develop a Smart Grid and Renewable Power over the next 17 years, to meet the mandatory or proposed CO2 emission standards, they would almost certainly be committing political suicide. The trillions of dollars required would thwart economic […]
Why should Energy Management Suppliers be Excited about Connecting BEMS to Smart Grid?
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 […]
Why Make Smart Buildings Smart Grid Compatible?
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 […]
Total World Sales of Building Energy Management Systems Hit $13.39b in 2011
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 Smart Grid is Dead, Long Live Smart Grid
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 […]
Why Interfacing Smart Buildings With Smart Grid Will Develop Into Multi-Billion Dollar Business
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 […]
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