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Beyond Energy Management: Building Performance Optimization Services Take Centre Stage
May 22nd, 2017Only With A Coordinated Effort Will We Be Able To Manage The Cyber Security Threat To Smart Buildings
May 18th, 2017
Some Building Systems Are Born Smart, Others Have Smartness Thrust Upon Them
“Some building systems are born smart, some achieve smartness and some have smartness thrust upon them,” Shakespeare might have said if he were a 21st century mechanical engineer or facility manager working in Chicago. Taking center-stage in the ambitious Midwest city is a smart building retrofit worthy of applause. Completed in 1990, 311 South Wacker […]
Where and How does Physical Security fit into the IoT Landscape?
Back in December last year we published the second part of our two part paper What the Customer Needs to Meet the Challenge of IoT & Data-Ism… In Part 1 we discussed customers needs as the physical security equipment business gradually developed products that improved performance, reduced cost and enhanced value add services over the […]
Commercial Real Estate Firms Strengthen Their Smart Building Capabilities
The two leading service providers in the global Commercial Real Estate (CRE) market have been augmenting their capabilities in smart building technologies, facility management software and services. Major real estate clients are demanding a “one-stop shop” with more integrated services and global multi-site capability. Strategic acquisitions have been the main route to acquire this capability. […]
The Innovative Startups that could bring AI & Blockchain to Smart Buildings
The world is full of new technologies promising to reshape society but perhaps none are more exciting and wide-ranging than artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. The smart building sector has begun to embrace and understand the potential of these technologies for its own continued growth. “With the advent of artificial intelligence in the smart building […]
The Evolution of the Building Management System: Data and Connectivity
While building management systems (BMS) have become smart in recent years, they are certainly not new. In fact they have gradually evolved over the last 50+ years and into the 21st century systems we see today. BMS has always been boosted by the technological developments of the time, but today’s smart building technology is influencing […]
Sensing Machine Failure Before it Happens Through Predictive Maintenance
Unexpected downtime is terrible for any facility. Whether it’s a factory, data center or an office building, the impacts of unexpected downtime are wide-ranging and difficult to measure. When a key system suddenly fails; earnings may drop to zero, costs may remain high, stock may spoil, compensation may be due, customers may be lost, and […]
The Future of Smart Buildings is Ultimately All About the People Inside
From access to lighting, to heating or cooling, to parking and asset management the Internet of Things (IoT) is infiltrating our buildings, trying to make them smarter. But who should buildings really be designed? We still don’t know if these invasive, all-powerful systems will be accepted by building occupants themselves. “No matter what the benefits […]
ZEN; the Zero Energy Nanotechnology Building
Amongst the many buildings of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, New York, something a bit different stands. Within the buildings of Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) exists what might be the world’s most advanced university research enterprise in existence today. With 300 industrial partners, 4,000 scientists, engineers, students and faculty, and over […]
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