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Facility Management Software Trends: Integration, Acquisitions and Partnerships
October 26th, 2015Honeywell Focuses on Growing Energy Management Software & Data Analytics Portfolio
October 12th, 2015LEED Dynamic Plaque could Elevate Building Automation to another Level
Telus House (the 1st major office development south of Toronto’s railway tracks in more than a decade) was launched as a LEED Gold AAA standard Smart Building, 60% more efficient than comparable traditional buildings. Now in 2015 the 30-storey smart building, owned by Menkes Developments Ltd., will become the first Canadian building to employ a […]
Building Internet of Things Growth is Being Restricted by the Supply Chain
In a previous article on IoT in buildings “Partnering is the Key to Success for Emerging Building Internet of Things Players” discussed why the Building Automation Systems (BAS) suppliers were becoming a little less enthusiastic about the morphing of their business to the Building Internet of Things (BIoT). Sharing a much bigger pie with the […]
Partnering is the Key to Success for Emerging Building Internet of Things Players
Having just completed a series of 3 techno / commercial studies on the Building Internet of Things (BIoT) the objective to turn smart buildings into fully automated ones requiring little or no human intervention has the full support of building owners. The technology to overcome the deficiencies of the present semi-automated Building Automation Services (BAS) […]
Honeywell and Tata Launch Automated Demand Response Project in Delhi
Last week Honeywell and Tata Power Delhi Distribution (TPDDL) announced that they have successfully implemented the first ever, automated demand response (ADR) project for commercial and industrial facilities in India. TPDDL is using Honeywell technology and services to link more than 160 buildings in its distribution network, and require temporary reductions in energy use when […]
Building Automation Suppliers have a Major Role to Play in BIoT – Will they Grasp this Opportunity?
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 […]
Big Data is Critical to Delivering the Internet of Things in Buildings
Big Data is the most critical element in delivering a fully automated control and management system to commercial & industrial smart buildings. It is the software that makes it possible to fine tune and automate without the intervention of humans. Solutions must satisfy building owners buying propositions; which is that their investment must reduce the […]
Who are the Leading Global Suppliers of Access Control Technology?
Access Control, for so long the poor relative of Video Surveillance, has in 2014 upstaged it by delivering a higher growth rate; which we forecast will continue over the next 5 years. The 3 main drivers for growth are the continuing move to IP technology, the integration of Access control with Identity Management and Wireless […]
Today’s Smart Buildings are Not Good Enough; Building Internet of Things is the Solution
Like it or not we have now entered the third wave of Information Technology which will be even more profound than the previous two; which have shaped world over the last 50 years. Building Internet of Things (BIoT), smart, connected products in buildings offer a totally new set of choices of how we capture and […]
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