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
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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
“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
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
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
A Tale of Two Battles: Or the Building Automation-ization of Consumer IoT
Headlines this month alerted the building automation and controls community to two battles set to rock our world: EPA Energy Star’s ‘Battle of the Buildings’ and the IT Industry’s “Battle of the Internet of Things (IoT) Standards.” Participants in the first battle are open to leveraging any new IoT concepts that might serve to save energy. … Continue reading A Tale of Two Battles: Or the Building Automation-ization of Consumer IoT
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
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