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HVAC Industry Demonstrates the Flexible Power of Digital Systems in a Crisis
April 21st, 2020New Majority Shareholder for No. 2 Player in German Building Automation Market
April 14th, 2020
The Straight Road of Traditional Lighting has Arrived at a New Open Landscape
It seems as though the lighting market has been at an inflection point for some time now. After more than a century of contentment with various forms of the traditional lightbulb for various forms of illumination, the LED was born to save the world with unprecedented energy efficiency. LED’s could do more than just illuminate […]
Hybrid Deep Learning Promises to Better Predict Building Energy Consumption
Accurate forecasting of building energy consumption is as valuable as it is complicated. The ability to reliably predict how much energy a building will use in the next hour, week, or year would bring about a new level of flexibility within and between our smart buildings but a range of internal and external variables have […]
We Must Develop a Unified Approach to Cybersecurity
“Perhaps one of the greatest fears shared by critical infrastructure professionals in today’s age of connected infrastructure is the risk for a cyber attack that goes beyond data theft and can bring down the entire facility HAVAC system or a high-rise tower control system and even threatens occupants’ lives,” says Dr Rida Hamza, VP of […]
EU Smart Readiness Indicator Raises Awareness of the Value of Smart Buildings
Smart buildings are energy efficient. They intelligently control HVAC and lighting systems to improve occupant comfort and worker productivity. Smart buildings can lead cars to empty parking spaces and people to empty meeting rooms. They use data analytics, real-time sensing, and artificial intelligence to enable smart systems… but how many of these functions must be […]
Johnson Controls Augments Building Control Product Portfolio with Acquisition of EasyIO
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. In a relatively rare move to augment its building automation business, Johnson Controls, one of the top 3 vendors of building automation systems, announced the acquisition of EasyIO, a manufacturer of open BMS control products on 21st November 2019. In recent years, Johnson […]
Energy Efficiency & Occupant Comfort are Inseparable in the Smart Building Context
Occupant centric controls (OCC) is a key approach to smart buildings. Gathering adaptive control parameters, such as occupant or environmental data, to improve occupant comfort, energy efficiency, and other smart building objectives. The industry understands the need for OCC but numerous research studies in the past year have highlighted the fact that there have been […]
The Smart Contractor: A Disruptive Idea for Smaller Buildings
General contractors, technicians, and handyman-labor hold unique roles, especially within the small and medium scale residential and commercial building sector. Every day these figures are welcomed into buildings for repairs and develop trust through maintenance of critical systems. Every day they advise building operators on how to optimize their systems and even guide decision-makers on […]
The HVAC Industry Needs to Figure out a New Way to Attract Talent
Smart buildings represent our urban future but we will need a workforce with new skills to make that happen. Job opportunities in facilities management are at an all time high as adoption of smart systems increase. Those with strong abilities in the connected buildings systems space are in high demand, and command significant wages, while […]
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