It's hard to argue with the advice in this whitepaper now available on the OSIsoft learning portal. Author David Doll lays out all the ways good intentions about energy efficiency initiatives can go wrong: Sin of Wrong Accounting: Capital budget financing for needed energy efficiency measures Sin of Fits-and-Starts: Once-and-done commissioning Sin of Flying Blind: Making decisions without tapping … Continue reading OSIsoft Identifies 7 Sins of Facility Energy Management
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The Mockingjay in Nest
Nest Labs was a portfolio company of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before it was purchased by Google in December of 2013. The deal was a key talking point for both sides in the recent gender discrimination trial that pitted the VC firm against former Junior Partner, Ellen Pao. But, do we yet understand what that deal says about … Continue reading The Mockingjay in Nest
Mobile Chat Apps Aim to Conquer the Enterprise; Buildings O&M May Be Their First Foothold
Last month I wrote generally about how mobile messaging and in-app notifications were eclipsing email as a means of enterprise collaboration, and about how these new modes might be a better match for building operations and facilities staff. I made those observations before the December Sony computer system breach. If you listen to Steven Sinofsky, … Continue reading Mobile Chat Apps Aim to Conquer the Enterprise; Buildings O&M May Be Their First Foothold
“How the IoT is Changing Facility Management” by Eric Graham
Our most reliable source of information about facilities is the occupants themselves. Managing buildings today is getting increasingly complex. With space at a premium, increased utility costs, and higher occupant expectations, facility managers are under pressure to manage buildings more efficiently than ever before. With the rise in device connectivity and consumer-facing feedback applications like … Continue reading “How the IoT is Changing Facility Management” by Eric Graham
New York City’s New Retrofit Plan Timed for People’s Climate March
New York City just announced a building retrofit plan, timed right before yesterday’s People’s Climate March. The march through Manhattan was estimated as the largest climate march in history, with from 300,000 to 400,000 people participating. As nearly three-quarters of NYC’s emissions come from energy used in buildings, steps aimed at building energy efficiency are … Continue reading New York City’s New Retrofit Plan Timed for People’s Climate March
Dell/Intel Court Smart Building Innovators with new IoT Lab
If you met Dell/Intel in June at the IB-Con conference in Las Vegas, you would know that the duo is interested in helping their OEM customers develop IoT solutions for building automation projects. Last week's announcement of the opening of a jointly funded IoT Lab in Santa Clara was the next milestone on that path. … Continue reading Dell/Intel Court Smart Building Innovators with new IoT Lab
SoftGrid Conference Explores Utility Data Crunching
Attending Greentech Media’s Soft Grid Conference In Menlo Park, CA, this week, where the general topic is how to effectively manage, analyze and take action on the data generated by the digitized grid. GTM’s Jeff St. John explains, “Customer data is a huge realm of interest for utilities -- and the wider world of distributed … Continue reading SoftGrid Conference Explores Utility Data Crunching
SkySpark® Analytics Now Deployed to Over 8200 Sites and 475 Million Square Feet
John Petze,Principal at SkyFoundry, comments, "We see these results validating a number of key facts – For building owners, this continued, rapid growth validates the financial benefits of applying analytics to improve the performance of virtually all types of buildings and equipment systems. It's also validation of the effectiveness of SkyFoundry's worldwide partner channel. … Continue reading SkySpark® Analytics Now Deployed to Over 8200 Sites and 475 Million Square Feet
Smart Building Infographic from the Business Times of Singapore & Johnson Controls
To kick-off Green Building Week in Singapore, the team at the Business Times of Singapore and Johnson Controls are sharing this infographic. It's futuristic...but not too far off. It is ambitious in its whole-building presentation, encouraging people to think about how all this new technology - Internet of Things , electric cars, renewable … Continue reading Smart Building Infographic from the Business Times of Singapore & Johnson Controls
Rise of the Building Bots
Your current and future ‘building bots’ are hungry. They’ll eat anything you’ve got — proprietary protocols streamed from big equipment, data sent wirelessly from any radio, M2M communications from a cellular network, someday even li-fi data from networks that use the spectrum of visible light. The challenge is in the preparation. As the National Institute … Continue reading Rise of the Building Bots
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