Stephen King, President of Pacific Medical Building Real Estate Services, posted a thoughtful article to the PMB website this week entitled "Trends in Smart Building Operations Analogous to Trends in Healthcare." PMB is one of California's leading providers of real estate management services in the Medical Office Building ("MOB") segment of commercial real estate. King writes: "The use … Continue reading Analytics are Changing Building Operations, as They’ve Changed Healthcare
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“Wearable Technologies – The Next Thing?” by Chip Pieper
When you take into consideration that ABI Research expects 90 million wearable devices to ship worldwide by the end of 2014 and that IDC estimates a $7+ trillion dollar market for the Internet of Things by 2020, it doesn’t take a visionary to predict the influence this next wave of technology will have on … Continue reading “Wearable Technologies – The Next Thing?” by Chip Pieper
“Coil Crime Scene Investigation” by Dean Taylor & Jim Lee
Operational forensics is the practice of using building automation system data and data analytics to determine the sequence of events leading up to an incident and to determine root cause. Imagine walking into your facility on a Monday morning to find water covering the floor. Water damage is everywhere – mechanical rooms, laboratories and … Continue reading “Coil Crime Scene Investigation” by Dean Taylor & Jim Lee
Realcomm Considers 2015/2016 Innovation Landscape
CoRE Tech 2014, the annual corporate real estate gathering organized by Realcomm happens November 10th and 11th. There, on the Sprint Campus in Overland Park, Kansas, the industry will have opportunity to learn about and compare notes on the torrent of new technologies aimed at automating property management and building operations. “How many … Continue reading Realcomm Considers 2015/2016 Innovation Landscape
In NYC, Rudin EVP Explains Why Buildings Need a Brain
John Gilbert, COO/EVP/CTO of Rudin Management Company (RMC) spoke at a Greenbiz VERGE Salon event on Sept. 16 in New York City on how technology and data are transforming the future of buildings and cities. Gilbert speaks often on the integration of technology into the built environment. He also addressed the audience at the RealComm conference in Las … Continue reading In NYC, Rudin EVP Explains Why Buildings Need a Brain
Tweets from Schneider Electric’s ‘The Next Age’ 2014 Influencer Summit
Held at its new R&D center in Andover, MA September 11th, SE's 2014 summit was a news making event. You can find all the tweets by searching ##seinfluence14 #TheNextAge on Twitter. I followed as they were sending, and here are some that caught my eye: From @Hummel_Chris What can Schneider do in health? One hospital … Continue reading Tweets from Schneider Electric’s ‘The Next Age’ 2014 Influencer Summit
Enerliance Brings Another 670K Square Feet of Orange County Office Space Under LOBOS ADR Control
There was expectation that LOBOS would reach more customers, faster as part of the Yardi family when Enerliance was acquired by the real estate software leader in May. That appears to be happening. This press release announces that six Orange County buildings managed by Davis Partners are now Demand Response ready with Enerliance Load Based Optimization System … Continue reading Enerliance Brings Another 670K Square Feet of Orange County Office Space Under LOBOS ADR Control
Microsoft Azure ML – New Support for Building Predictive Analytics
Microsoft Azure ML Designed to Attract More Machine Learning Development Partners: First Use Case is by OSIsoft at Carnegie Mellon Microsoft recently demonstrated a special Azure ML cloud service that provides a browser-based interface for authoring the machine learning algorithms that power predictive analytics, such as Smart Building operational analytics. The interface is easy enough for non-data scientists … Continue reading Microsoft Azure ML – New Support for Building Predictive Analytics
Hello PayPal Mafia. Meet Buildings’ Own Big Data Bosses
I really think we’re living in the single most interesting time that I could have predicted as a computer scientist... [at school] I remember walking across rooms thinking I’m going to spend my entire life perfecting this notion of set math on datasets as big as possible. Whatever the biggest data set I can get … Continue reading Hello PayPal Mafia. Meet Buildings’ Own Big Data Bosses
Taps Open for Energy Efficiency Retrofits
And its up to System Integrators, Equipment Operators and Facilities Managers to Make the New Financing Models based on Energy Savings Work. In recent weeks, there has been a wave of announcements about new models for energy efficiency retrofit financing. Schneider Electric’s Chris Hummel cites four reasons that energy efficiency financing is back. But, it’s not … Continue reading Taps Open for Energy Efficiency Retrofits
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