The power of data to bring transparency, greater security, fairer market competition and rapid change to buildings was the main theme at Haystack Connect in Tampa in early May. Advancements in contributing technologies like wireless connectivity, edge computing, analytics, machine learning, etc. were well covered in the IoT Architecture Symposium that ran during the IoT World Conference in Santa Clara in the middle of the month.
Tag: IoT Middleware
Buildings IoT Industry Gives Industrial Internet Consortium Something to Reference
On June 17th the Industrial Internet Consortium, with companies like Cisco, Intel, GE and IBM at the core, formally released its IoT Reference Architecture Document, making it available for complementary download. When I wrote about the first public showcasing of the reference model at the IoT World Forum in Chicago in October, the resulting BuildingContext post was … Continue reading Buildings IoT Industry Gives Industrial Internet Consortium Something to Reference
“The Cutting-Edge of IoT” by Therese Sullivan
The Internet of Things World Forum just presented its new IoT Reference Model, recognizing familiar building automation brands as leading in the category of Edge Computing. What are the important takeaways for commercial buildings automation? ‘Edge Software’ is the name the model gives to any module that has evolved to configure, address and directly process … Continue reading “The Cutting-Edge of IoT” by Therese Sullivan
Building Automation and Analytics — Already at the Cutting-Edge of IoT
The Internet of Things World Forum just presented its new IoT Reference Model, recognizing familiar building automation brands as already leading in the category of Edge Computing. So, how does the IoT really change the future of commercial building operations? There were a number of Internet of Things (IoT) community gatherings held this October — … Continue reading Building Automation and Analytics — Already at the Cutting-Edge of IoT
IoT Reference Model Introduced at IoT World Forum 2014
Cisco, IBM, and Intel presented an IoT Reference Model at the IoT World Forum in Chicago last week. The model is one more piece of evidence that the major industry players are working closely together to move the Internet of Things from the realm of hype to something real. The tone of the presentation which you can … Continue reading IoT Reference Model Introduced at IoT World Forum 2014
Controller Layer in Red Hat’s Vision of the IoT
James Kirkland, Chief Architect, Embedded and Intelligent Systems, for Red Hat, the Enterprise Linux company, delves into all the functionality that will be expected of a controller in a system architected for the Internet of Things era in a recent whitepaper. He explains, The controller tier is, simply put, the tier between the other … Continue reading Controller Layer in Red Hat’s Vision of the IoT
Wind River Visualizes the Future IoT
Two big names in IT middleware published versions of their vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) recently, Red Hat, developer of Enterprise Linux, and Wind River Systems, an Intel company. Of particular interest to building automation professionals is how each company perceives the future development of the gateway or control tier in IoT … Continue reading Wind River Visualizes the Future IoT
NIST Opens Learning Lab for Building Bots
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants to study how artificial intelligence agents - cousins to search spiders and machine learning routines for robotics - can be deployed in the operation of HVAC equipment and in improving building energy and comfort performance overall. Such building 'bots are becoming just one more level of data exchange in a building … Continue reading NIST Opens Learning Lab for Building Bots
DGLux5 Training – Hop Aboard the Future Express
It’s easy to bat around the term “Internet of Things.” But until you’re in a room full of interface designers trying to make the implied thousands and thousands of connections visible and manageable—you don’t appreciate what it means. I came to this realization while attending the 3-day DGLux5 Introductory training course last week near San … Continue reading DGLux5 Training – Hop Aboard the Future Express
More Pub/Sub Middleware Choices for the Industrial Internet of Things
Now that most modern buildings are equipped with IP-based networks utilizing Ethernet, IEEE 802.11 and other popular wired and wireless protocols, achieving network connectivity among diverse building system components – digital thermostats, lights, cameras and other security ID technologies – is not today's challenge. However, connectivity is not interoperable data sharing. A defining feature of … Continue reading More Pub/Sub Middleware Choices for the Industrial Internet of Things
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