Tridium showed the Niagara community what it means to be the leader of the band at Niagara Summit ‘18 in New Orleans. The band and community just keeps growing as Niagara gains fans among those seeking open connectivity for systems and devices. Over 1000 Niagara developers, programmers, building engineers, end users and executives were gathered, … Continue reading Niagara Summit 2018 – Playing All the Right Notes
Tag: Internet of Things
Highlights from Realcomm-IBcon 2017
This year’s Intelligent Buildings conference by Realcomm was again a hotbed of information exchange and business dealings for all the professions involved in smart buildings, smart cities and smart energy projects. IT/OT convergence, security of networks and data, as well as technology disruption were big themes, as they have been in past years. My biggest … Continue reading Highlights from Realcomm-IBcon 2017
IoT Makers in Legoland
Like kids set loose in a roomful of legos, IoT product developers around the world are making brand new things to connect to the Internet out of smartphone components and open source software stacks. Makers are taking advantage of the supply chain built by the mobile computing industry. They have low-cost compute devices like Arduino … Continue reading IoT Makers in Legoland
Putting a Value on open, standards-based BAS
Last month I wrote about how open source communities are fertile ground for launching new companies and about how they spurn any software that seeks to trap data into proprietary silos. Two pieces of news over the last weeks prove those points. The latest news is that GE Current just acquired Daintree Networks for $77M.Daintree’s … Continue reading Putting a Value on open, standards-based BAS
VizLore Interview: How Will the IoT Create More Intelligent Buildings?
In covering the growing power of the open source/open data movement in commercial buildings, I learned about VizLore and its Software-Defined Network (SDN) approach. SDN is an open programming model that is foundational for new Platform as a Service (PaaS) IoT applications like VizLore’s. VizLore soft sensors and analytics derive insight and value from … Continue reading VizLore Interview: How Will the IoT Create More Intelligent Buildings?
‘Death of Controls Industry’ as Explained by Darren Wright of Arup
Darren Wright, a Director at Arup, has released a video stream of his presentation on the history and future of the controls industry on youtube. It’s a very on-point statement on the topic from the viewpoint of an experienced building commissioning expert. His understanding of the development of control automation goes all the way back … Continue reading ‘Death of Controls Industry’ as Explained by Darren Wright of Arup
CoRE Tech’s Silicon Valley Message: ‘Just Do It.’
Smart Building technology isn't being adopted at the pace expected. Why aren't more property owners getting off the sidelines? Chicago Bulls Basketball star Michael Jordan inspired a lot of sports watchers to become sports Do-ers in the 1980s and 90s. And, of course, there were the 'Sneaks.' Can tech-firm smart building All Stars be as motivating? … Continue reading CoRE Tech’s Silicon Valley Message: ‘Just Do It.’
Talking Smack about the Building IoT Stack
Eric Stromquist and Ken Smyers of ControlTrends.org invited me onto their ControlTalk NOW show last week, ending November 8, 2015. What fun! We talk I0T Stacks! What are they? Who has them? Why are they needed now? How does Project Haystack fit in? They even threw in the question "What is Google's (now Alphabet's) Nest up … Continue reading Talking Smack about the Building IoT Stack
The Ron Swanson’s and Tom Haverford’s of Green Buildings
Here's hoping that the team from Parks and Recreation will do a Greenbuildings-themed spin-off. I’m putting the idea out there today on the chance it will catch the eye of the show’s creators and sponsors in time for Greenbuild 2015 in Washington DC this week. That would be a great place to put out a casting call. … Continue reading The Ron Swanson’s and Tom Haverford’s of Green Buildings
Of Pitchforks and Haystacks
Hype is just a natural and necessary ingredient in the life cycle of any technology. So says the IT Research firm Gartner Group, and it has been producing yearly Hype Cycle curves for about 20 years. In his book Leadership B.S., Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford Professor, writes that the ability to hype, a.k.a. to lie, is one of the traits that makes … Continue reading Of Pitchforks and Haystacks
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