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• June 2022 - Why AI?  We have gone past the 'why do we need AI' to 'why we should participate in building AI.'
  
  
• May 2022 - "Enabling Value by Improving Infrastructure"
  
  
• "Radical Reinvention Reconfiguration & Forced Evolution"
  
  
• "Women Creating Amazing Opportunities"A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated.
  
  
•  February -"Vegas Winds & Wins"
  
  
• January  - "Defining You in 2022" How you Adapt, Navigate, Embrace, Connect Virtually in 2022 will define you.
  
  
• Editorial December  "Vetting Vegas "  AHRExpo Vegas first F2F major event of 2022
  
  
• "Creating Clarity”  Our success depends on bringing Clarity to the Complex
  
  
• 5 Questions with a Buildings Automation Expert
  
  
•  "Collaboration, Integration, Education”
  We need to better understand the complex mosaic of our collaborative teams
  
  
• Smarter Sustainability Decarbonization & Electrification
  
  
• 2022 Las Vegas AHR Expo Educational Sessions
  
  
• September Smarter Sustainability Decarbonization & Electrification
• August Issue - "Delivering Smarter Buildings"
• July - "Navigating Next New"
• Our June issue theme is "Pushing Digital Dinosaurs" The theme is about the end of several eras and the beginning of new ones full of change
  
  
• LinkedIn post on Trust

• Digital Twin Morphing to Triplets + New Wireless Wave  As we are all trying to get our minds around the concept of creating and using a digital twin our Contributing Editor, Nicolas gives birth to Triplets and suggests more variants are on the way

• "Adaptation"  What has 50 years in the industry taught me? The more I learn the less I know, but "Adaptation" is our survival superpower.


• Choose to Challenge   because from challenge comes change the IWD 2021 campaign theme: so let's all choose to challenge

• "Be the Change"   We can not just watch or even just react to change, we must be the change.

• Your New Vocation Building Automation  Whether you read "Building" as a verb or noun, investigate being part of our Building Automation Industry to satisfy your Curiosity, Passion, Innovation, Motivation, Location, and Edge-You-Cation.

• Together Apart  Now that we have been Covid-ized we have seen the value and necessity of working together apart.

• Our Covid-ized Future Reality  Will it be Real? or Augmented & Artificially Intelligent? or a Covid-ized Hybrid? Unabridged Version

• Out of In...novation  The true power of Innovations is not just the innovative idea but what we as a society and an industry can extract out of that innovation. Unabridged Version
  

• Edge Next Wave  If you surf, sail, paddle, or simply just stand in the water, the shape, speed, height, and impact of the next wave can either swamp or propel you. I predict the next wave is coming with an artificial intelligent edge that if you are not ready for will knock you over.
  
  
• Requesting Innovation Create your "Request for Proposal for Innovation" Innovation is a timeless ingredient, a necessary part of our successful transformation, needed now more than ever.

• Mr. Linkair  Do not just talk about Transformation and how it links our past knowns to the uncertainties of our future unknowns. "Just Do It!"

• Navigating Never Never  Our Transformation is deep inside where we said we would never, never, go; we all need more information and discussion to successfully navigate our new never. "You are Never coming back once you transform"

• Transformation  We need to stop focusing on the digital part and refocus on the complete Transformation that is now occurring everywhere
  
  
• "Tossing Transformation Torches"  Covid-19 has forced some amazing never before had conversations zooming us all online, lighting some blazing Transformation Torches that are igniting the sky far beyond our industry. It is not clear as to who will catch and hold these torches to lead our future crusades, but no one can ignore that transformation's fire is in the air.
  
  
• Online Education Anywhere, "Edge-You-Cation" Unabridged version COVID-19 has us all on edge, even pushing us over the edge, by challenging all conventional thought and wisdom by sending us home or to camp out anywhere in between with new definitions of our workspace which is transitioning from physical to virtual space and interactions. Ken Sinclair Founder, Owner, Publisher AutomatedBuildings.com
  
• Combining Collaborating Communities Competencies "Changing Control Freaks to Scrum Masters" Unabridged version We need to Combine, Collaborate all our available Competencies to create powerful never before seen or conceived hybrid outcome driven services from our known and unknown Communities of Trust
  
• Online Education Anywhere, "Edge-You-Cation" Unabridged version COVID-19 has us all on edge, even pushing us over the edge, by challenging all conventional thought and wisdom by sending us home or to camp out anywhere in between with new definitions of our workspace which is transitioning from physical to virtual space and interactions.
• Creating Outcome-Based Platforms of Trust The new corporate mandate requires that all employees be assured that they are safe at home, at the office, and in the in-between.
• Building Communities of Trust  Trust is the new currency, a commodity we need to create as part of our remote renaissance.
  
• Embracing Enlightenment
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• Reinvention, Rebirth, Renaissance
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• COVID-19 New Normal is Not Normal
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• Research, Reinvent, Recreate, Reboot - Repeat if Necessary
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• Adopting Adaption - Achieving Antifragility  The ongoing global pandemic has shown us all how fast we can adapt for survival.
• Global Reboot - Adopting Adaption  So, what will that global reboot look like? -
  
• Wake up to Wireless Ways  Wireless network ways provide a future-proofed, AI-driven self-discovery schema.
  
• Talking Today's Tools  It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, it is the one that is most adaptable to change.
• HVAC:Born Again Connected  We need to imagine what every HVACR product would look like if it was "born again connected."
• Industry's Amazing Women Take this time to recognize the womrn in our industry.
• What Does Open Mean to You?  Just returning from AHRExpo Orlando and a very successful Open discussion for an Open Future.
  
• Born Again Connected  Perception of our reality is everything. We need a method to disconnect from our perceptions and imagine ourselves "Born Again Connected.”
  
• Open Your Mind, Get Out of Your Head  Step away from your hectic life. Open your mind, and to put it simply, get out of your head.
• Decarbonization is Our Climate Emergency  It falls to us—to whoever is able—to take action in spite of National and International floundering.
• Building Engagement Platforms  The age of IoT, IP and digital transformation are increasingly common across a range of industries and are revolutionizing them.
• Addressing the Education Emergency @ AHRExpo 2020  Never Stop Learning
  
• Wireless Inside Out Wireless connection to the Internet is among the top three most important factors for tenants who are searching for office space.
• Bringing Together Diverse Devices We understand that building data is our future, but the myriad of diverse devices all speak different dialects of an undocumented language.
• Sharing Data, Work-Space, Interaction & Integration  Do we really want to own our workspace? Or do we want to match our workspace to our daily location, purpose and resource base?
  
• Building Data  How will we capture and harness the power of the immense amount of data generated by smart buildings?
• Smart Buildings for the Smart City  The autonomous smart building is the secret sauce for building a smart city. Autonomous smart buildings are the strategic chess pieces that form the foundation of our truly smart cities.
• Building Backbones Are Changing Rapidly  Backbones, our internet communication connections with everything, are under metamorphic change.
• Building User Connection  It’s hard to believe we are now more than 50 chapter in to our ongoing journey!
• Smart City Building  The autonomous smart building is the secret formula for building a smart city.
• Building Backbones  I wish to start us on a re-education path that will redefine our present understanding of what the new Building Backbones might be.
  
• Attraction and Retention of Millennials and Zillennials  Adopting the new Hyper IP-Enabled generation to our workforce is a big part of the solution to our Education Emergency.
• Recalibrate for 2020 Vision  History of the past is very important if we want to recalibrate anything—be it a system or ourselves.
• Becoming the Internet of Things  Most of what we do not know revolves around our evolving new identities as walking and talking IoT.
• Building Automation: Propagating our People Power To grow our industry younger, we need to get our message out that we are an exciting industry in which young folks can make a difference and offer them job crafting and promote “job flexibility as a game changer” to attract them.
• You Do Not Know What You Do Not Know  You know what you know, you know what you do not know, but you do not know what you do not know.
• Building Automation: Connecting Creative Communities  More than ever we need to connect to existing creative communities — use them to quickly become re-educated while growing younger with new people.
• Job Crafting Our Industry Ambassadors  Brand ambassadors are simply people who represent and talk about your company in a positive way, preferably in front of lots of potential customers. 
• Cybersecurity Solutions  My concern is that in fencing off every risk we will end up the ones behind the fences—immobilized, paralyzed, victims of our own fears.
• Automation Road Trip  As Willy Nelson would say, I am "on the road again" following a few of my many Communities of Practice.
• Creative Communities  The people and their communities have staying power—the technology does not.
• AI is still a Journey  Disruption is everywhere, and open is on our mind and in our software and hardware.
• Communities of Practice The importance of being part of and creating CoPs — Communities of Practice
  
• Cybersecurity Solutions  My concern is that in fencing off every risk we will end up the ones behind the fences—immobilized, paralyzed, victims of our own fears.
• Collaborating Around Cybersecurity Anto Budiardjo and Ken Sinclair Collaborating
• Automated Intelligence With Autonomous Interactions  Our industry is on a journey towards Automated Intelligence and that, for now, is the AI we are talking about, along with its interlocking AI, Autonomous Interaction.
• Disrupting Disruption  We need to be the people Doing the Disruption, not the ones just watching and waiting to be Disrupted.
• The Dawn of Disruption  Just back from a kaleidoscope of future peeks into the Dawn of Disruption and its' Emotions @AHREXPO 2019 Atlanta.
• New Year's Resolution: Be Open to Change  "Opening to 2019" is mostly about opening our minds to the edge of change that is upon us.
• The Open Road Is Bumpy, Edgy, but Mindful  As I write this chapter we are planning our Open Road Trip to Atlanta. -   Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings
• New Year's Resolution: Be Open to Change  "Opening to 2019" is mostly about opening our minds to the edge of change that is upon us.
• Open 2019  Open 2019 is mostly about opening our minds to the Edge of Change that is already upon us. - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
• Edge of Change  We need your input as we are now at the "Edge of Change" and you are part of this change.
• The "Edge of Change" "Emotion" is the noun used to describe the creation and depiction of a mindful interactive relationship — the conversation if you will — between the inhabitants and their physical building.
• Changing Collaborative Connection Communities  We are all part of several connection communities, but reorganization our existing ones and the creating our new ones is now foremost on all our minds.
• Building Automation: Edge Computing Meets the Maker Movement  Our November offering speaks to and is a mash up of our digital transformation. 
• Edge-ifcation in the Era of Connection  Together we are starting an interesting, important discussion and – to one degree or another – participating in the necessary disruption that is driving that transformation.
• Edge-ifcation Meets Maker Movement  The movement is a contemporary, technology-based subculture that is an extension of the DIY ( Do It Yourself )
  
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• Building Automation Is on a Journey to the Edge  When I cannot find the words to express myself. I create my own. Here is another one: edge-ification, the process of moving intelligence and control to the edge.
• Edge-ifcation - Moving the Murky Muddled Middle to the Edge  It’s the age-old question: centralize or de-centralize? It seems the new edge generation of technology is answering the question.
• Edge-You-Cation  Learning about our journey to the Edge
• Building Better Bots for Buildings  Why are we talking about building bots and not building controls?  Because the building automation industry is rapidly becoming the ears, eyes, arms, voice, and legs that are sensing, listening, seeing, and carrying out the commands of self-learning and AI thought bots.
  
• Open Software, Open Hardware, and Open Minds  I scare myself several times a day, every day, learning all that I can while trying to keep an open mind.
• Building Whisperers Aid Digital Transformation of Buildings  What are building whisperers? Those who adopt a sympathetic view of the motives, needs, and desires of the building's relationship with its humanistic purpose based on rapidly evolving views and understandings.
• Building Whisperers  People will rely on voice for more tasks throughout their day because voice removes friction.
• Building Better Building Bots Mindfully  In our future, all our inputs and outputs will evolve to either be bots, or be commanded by bots
• Building Emotion at AHR Expo The 2019 Show will be held in Atlanta, hosting more than 2,100 exhibitors and attracting crowds of more than 60,000 industry professionals from every state in America and 165 countries worldwide.  The Show provides a unique forum for the entire HVACR industry to come together and share new products, technologies, and ideas.
• Edge-Bots That Will Learn Emotion  It was great to get feedback on the excitement of the potential mash-up of a fixed physical asset and its emotional contents creating the new identity Building Emotion.
• Building Emotion Connects the Physical, Virtual, and Emotional Worlds  - A new virtual medium to purportedly communicate between the dead inanimate building and living humans.
  
• Building an Awesome UX  UX means “user experience” and refers to a person's emotions and attitudes about using a service.
  
• Building Emotion  "Emotion" is the noun used to describe the creation and depiction of a mindful interactive relationship - the conversation, if you will - between the inhabitants and their physical building.
• Seeking stackable semantics  When something is very difficult to find it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Essentially because the area you have to search is too large and the size of what you are looking for is very small.
  
• Building an awesome UX  Whether you view “building” as a noun or a verb, we as an industry need to create Awesome User Experiences.
• Humanistic Digital Inclusion We need to use all our new found digital technologies to help us "look, listen, feel, and think before reacting" creating anticipatory humanistic buildings.
• Creating empathic people-centric buildings  When you start down a new road you see everything differently.
• Humanistic Digital Inclusion  Look, Listen, Feel and Think before Reacting.
• Meta-Morphing Mashup I believe that this mashup and new meta-morphing thinking will evolutionize how other industries will connect their standards, and open movements, and expose them to the power of AI.
• Want IT Virtually Visible? Tag IT! Tagging IT is now mandatory or "IT" will virtually disappear as fast as created.
• Talking Transparency & Creating a Digital Twin  As part of our never-ending transformation, we need to talk about transparency, which implies openness, communication, and
  
• accountability, operating in a way that thoughts, feelings, or motives are easily perceived, and it is easy for others to see what actions are performed.
• Transparency and Digital Twin is the New Deal  The New Deal white paper from CABA is based on three tenets:  Open Standards, Digital Twin, Service Transparency -
• Building Brains: The Building IoT Is Transforming Buildings
• Transparency Transformation  As part of our never-ending transformation, we need to talk about Transparency which implies openness, communication, and accountability.
• Metamorphosing Me  “Reverse mentors” is a concept that has become more formalized as the benefits of learning from a younger generation have become more apparent.
• Creating the Voice of IoT  This column speaks about creating a voice for that face with a new breed of Voice Services aimed at evolving devices.
• The Face of Digital Transformation 2018   We are all involved in today's digital transformation and have an amazing opportunity to create a new softer mindfulness face for the greater good. 
• Building Brains  AI Is the Brain, IoT the Body speaking with the Face and Voice of Digital Transformation.
• The face of digital transformation for 2018  The mask represents a material metaphor for carving our existing digitalized world into a shape never before seen, in a process that blurs the lines between science and art but inside that transformation is yet another amazing transformation opportunity to create a better image of ourselves.
• Teaching the IoT Monster to ride a bike  The Octopus looks a lot like the IoT monster we are all wrestling with: smart, soft, slippery, flexible and able to change form; but to be useful the beast needs to learn how to ride our existing industries’ bikes, which are old, rigid, hard, and tippy.
  
• Are You - IoT Ready? #RUIoTReady  As an industry, we need to stop the waste of time in this creation of them and us, we are all in this together it is not a war, it is a love-in for “human-centric solutions.”
  
• Embracing the IoT Journey  Agile Adaptive Autodidactic Autonomous Accepted Actions - We need to embrace these six words and make them a part of the IoT journey we all are on.
• Timeline of smart building automation evolution  I created this Timeline of Smart Building Automation Evolution, with over a hundred events linking thousands of articles depicting our industry's history and its (sometimes) painfully slow evolution.
• "BAS's - Inclusive Open Data-driven Reinvention."  Once we presented the question, this article created itself, the title and pull quotes all evolved from the quoted thoughts.
• Agile Adapive Autodidatctic Autonomous Accepted Actions  We need to embrace these six words and make them a part of the IoT journey we all are on. - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
• People-Powered Transformation  People-powered transformation will occur when and as fast as we allow it, but only when all the people it touches embrace that coming change.
• People-Powered Transformation  All of us are engaging in a transformation for the greater good. People-Powered Transformation will occur when and as fast as we allow it, but only when all the people it touches embrace that coming change.  - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
• The evolution of the Master System Integrator (MSI)   What do Master System Integrators (MSI) do? They make sure all systems communicate properly, they collaborate with building owners to ensure systems information will be accessible and usable, and they develop software layers responsible for integration, aggregation, and communication of the building systems.
• Getting There From Here This "Getting There from Here" discussion deals with the shift in thinking and action that we all must make to deal with the rapid change that is upon us.
• Autonomous actions on the Intelligent Edge  Intelligent Edge Computing is bringing more power to machine learning and providing the foundation for a distributed architecture that will make machine collaboration more prevalent than ever before.
• Getting there from here: The shift in thought and action we need to make.
• Autonomous Actions on the Intelligent Edge  Powerful low-cost edge controllers using open source software are changing the industry landscape. Intelligent Edge Computing changes machine learning's location, bringing more power with an autonomous personality even closer to the edge while providing the foundation for a decentralized architecture creating machine distributed collaboration.  
• Building Health  Wait, am I using “building” as a noun or a verb? Both! "Building Health" is a topic that is going to dominate our future. - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings
• Streaming Dinosaur Dust  We need to learn how to stream dinosaur dust in our new social self-learning online environments. The industry's info dumping "the dinosaur dump" is not working for teaching those new generations that will become the new us. - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings
• Building Health Can Increase Productivity  "Building health" is a topic that is going to dominate our future and the activating process of "building health" in our buildings is something we all need to do, talk about, and share/communicate with our building occupants, so it becomes the biggest part of the happiness, satisfaction, and productivity puzzle.
• The Change  Are we fully sensing the change IoT is bringing to our industry? Maybe the best way to answer that question is to look at how we are changing the way we are sensing.
• Bridging the Skill Gap  How do we Find, Train and Retain Our Future Smart Building Professionals.
• Sensing the Change "Sensing the Change" is a double entendre, a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in two ways, having a double meaning.
• Volttron! (With two Ts)  The Super Robot defender of the Universe rises to save us all from yet another annoying acronym.
• The Uberization of Comfort, Satisfaction, and Wellbeing  The fastest growing businesses in the world, such as Uber and Airbnb, using tools like disintermediation and price transparency, create a marketing model that brings buyers and sellers together in an efficient, regulated, and innovative manner.
• The "Make Me Happy Button"  Claiming our Piece of the Productivity Puzzle
• Be the Mentor to Grow BACnet Younger  Only you can grow BACnet younger. It is your turn to reach out and become the mentor.
• Engaging Satisfaction and Wellness Satisfaction and wellness are components of productivity.
• Productivity and Satisfaction Deployment  Neither satisfaction or productivity are easy to define and involve obtaining deep knowledge of each asset’s personal self-esteem, well-being, stress, innovation level, and contribution to corporate purpose.
• Our Assets Are People, Not Technology If you can hire good people, train them well, and ensure they continue, throughout their career, to learn, we will see industry, from the operators to the engineers, achieve the potential we all know is there.
• The IoT Future of Building Automation   IoT changes everything, embedding in our future the ability to hostel the people that fuel function, purpose, productivity, and innovation.
• Open Edge Software Fuels Self-Learning Operability - Truly open edge software provides access to all data which fuels self-learning and enables unbridled creation for the new breed of makers that will marry our industry and IoT.
• Opportunities for a Better BACnet  There is a definite parallel to be drawn with the DDC revolution, but Building IoT (internet of things) or BIoT has the chance to be even more pervasive as it will cut across ALL industries.
• When Evolution Turns to Revolution  With an empowered population participating in the self-learning edge device maker culture, the movement has the feel of a revolution.
• The Self Learning Edge Revolution  In the future programing will become less significant or not at all and edge controllers will just simply learn what to do.
• Low Cost Powerful Hybrid Edge Controllers  One affordable, flexible device that can serve as either a global controller or a field DDC will go a long way to better HVAC system designs.
• Performance Software is Evolving Rapidly with Machine Self Learning  Smart building control systems are on the cusp of utilizing these technologies to reduce operating cost and provide significant value to building owners, property management, and building engineers.
• New Measured Variables: Health, Well-being, And Productivity  Creating value in the $300 part of the “3-30-300” rule
• Our Open IoT-centric Future  We just returned from Lightfair and the CABA Intelligent Buildings & Digital Home Forum. Both events were great eye openers depicting our need to adapt to our open IoT-centric future now.
  
• IoT/Smart Building Super Collider  Transforming and opening the industry is a journey, not a destination, and will require consistent and constant attention.
• Project-Haystack Open for Mashing  “This new digital publication welcomes existing and future Project-Haystack members with news, background media, tutorials and resource links.”
• Building Internet of Things: Making It Mashable
• Our Role in the Transformation of Building Automation  It is not the amazing IoT technological changes that are the focus of our discussions; it is how we as an industry of self-learning assets embrace and connect these changes.
• AHR Expo 2016 Preview  Our education theme for this year's AHR Expo is “Transformational Change for Building Automation.”
• Collecting, Clarifying, Quantifying, and Qualifying Connections
   I would like all our readers to join in helping us build "Our Connection Collection"
• “Who is (the future of) BACnet?” You are the future of BACnet, and you have been preparing your child for this day to meet the new world. You now need to allow your creation to go and grow.
• Satisfaction + Well Being = Productivity  There is a lot to absorb in this new way of thinking to make the needed transformational change in our industry but, if we can achieve and document satisfaction and wellbeing and their respective connection to productivity, we will create a new value proposition and a new industry based on our traditional skill set.
• Change Evolves from the Definition of the Possible  We need to focus on making change a priority. Please help me on this crusade.
• Transformational Change:  Our Mission Possible
• A Road Map of the Possible for Connected Buildings We all need to find our own reality as building owners, consultants, and integrators to implement all the virtual greatness being depicted.
• Back From The Stack  Haystack Connect And Big Data
• Becoming an Autodidactic Asset  The process of coming to be a self-taught person who is a valuable thing.
• Attracting Self-Learning Assets  Our online presences often do not attract the desired autodidactic assets or possibly not our potential clients either.
• Creating Self-Learning Cultures   How do we create them? How do we use them to increase the value of our only assets — our people?
• Building Automation Industry Depends On Attracting New Talent  People are our only asset.
• 2015 AHRExpo Show Daily Columns Days 1 & 2 January 26 - 27, Chicago
• Building Automation Focus for 2015  Needs to be Autodidactism or Self-Education
• The Answer To Education And Training  Creating Your Collaboration
• Understanding The Impact Of The Internet Of Things: The "I of Me"
• Automated Diagnostics And Analytics  How better to start building bridges to the “C” suite than with Automated Diagnostics & Analytics and the dream that in the future this will include the analytics of the measured variable of people productivity which is likely to somehow fall out of social media analytics.
• Education for your vocation  We all need to keep at the task of self-education to keep up with our rapidly evolving industry.
• Education for Your Vocation  The Task of Self-education - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
• Working together, separately  The core of all powerful web services is providing the ability for us to work together for free or at a very low cost in the cloud, but this all happens with separate individuals building these services.
  
• Cloud Enables Automation Players to Work Together, Separately  The cloud enables us to “Work Together” while flexing our greatest resource, our people, a group of individuals that separately create pieces that fit the cloud puzzle.
• You and Your Collaboratory Creating Open Cloud Services  "pay attention to the mistakes of the past and the minds of the future."
• Our Assets R U  Your understanding of where on the adoption curve the technology around you and part of you is provides the value you bring to your company and our industry.
• Focus on People to Advance Technology  My observation is that your understanding of where on the adoption curve the technology around you and part of you is provides the value you bring to your company and our industry.
• Our Industry’s Collaboratory attending IBcon Vegas 2014  This is a powerful combination, today’s knowledge with yesterday’s experience.
• A Resource for the Internet of Things (IOT) for Automated Buildings  as published by Facilities Management
• 15 years in the Collaboratory  It has been a labour of love providing you a new way to explore AutomatedBuildings.com. While we wallowed in the memories of the last 15 years it reminded Jane and I that this is not our story but the story of industry giants helping us create an online collaboratory of their powerful thoughts.
• “Open Cloud”  allows us to mix and match web services
• Ownership of the Collaboratory and its Security  One clear component of every successful energy integration project was a team of champions who asserted ownership of the projects collaboratory.
• Collaborating Mobile and Leveraging the Cloud  Mobile Collaboration that leverages the power of the cloud, coupled with Bring Your Own Device “BYOD” is our newest do all power tool.
• The Power of Concurrency and Collaboration in the Cloud  The strength of this approach is that these concurrent paths keep evolving and becoming stronger increasing our collaborated strengths.
• Collaborating Convergence and the Changing Industry  This December column is about “Collaborating Convergence” or as I like to joke “The Gear Heads meet the C-suite”…..smile. I think we all have accepted that the convergence model is inevitable, but I am not sure we understood how much we all would have to collaborate to insure successful convergence.
• How Our Future is Delivering Disruption  Delivering Disruption seems like an unlikely topic to speak to but it is exactly the business we all are in today as we provide new solutions that leap over and significantly change our existing marketplace.
• Build Bridges not Fences We need to change rapidly from building proprietary fences around our projects to providing connection bridges to the Internet of Everything (IoE).
• The Journey To Achieve “Automatically Smart”  To achieve it we must start to think differently now.
• Who R We? or Annoying Acronyms R Us  It may be not so much Who R We? as what do we call ourselves?
• Building Data Delivery  Whether you use Building as a noun or a verb it is now all about Building Data Delivery.
• Data Models Alter Industry Dynamics  It is a brave new world forming fast in the cloud and standard data models allow the feedstock for the cloud to be automatically reconfigured for the purpose of the moment.
• Dynamic Data Fuels Deep Analytics This speaks to the importance the next level of deep analytics of almost everything will have, and how we as an industry will provide a new, level of deeper analytics connecting inquiring minds to almost everything with low cost real-time data.
• Events Evolve Everyone Conferences and trade shows fill an important need for any industry. They provide a place for practitioners and vendors to come together to learn, network, test market acceptance of new ideas and products, and move the industry forward.
• The Dawn of Database  Data as a Service (DAAS) is a new concept for most of us and we need to better understand these new tools.
• Humanizing Your Cloud  Your cloud provides a lofty anywhere, any device, view of you and your corporate’s connected services.
• Wishing you a Happy New “Era”  We are rapidly entering a new Era in building automation that questions all we have done before.
• Controls Goals:  Collecting Connection Communities
• Industries’ Connection Communities Blur  How does your product or service connect to everything in our online world? Which Connection Communities is it part of?
• The Lighting Community  This column title plays on both the noun lighting and verb lighting to provide two different meanings. Which way did you read it? As the community of folks who provide lighting control? Or the action word for our job to provide lighting to several communities? Yes we are going to talk about both, but first.
• Connecting Connection Communities This topic is on my mind because I have been in dialogue with several in the industry about our event at this year's AHR Expo "Why we need to be part of several Connection Communities?"
• Defining Smart Buildings - a moving target
• Building for the Future  It is hard for us to imagine what a future building might look like and how its automation will be configured, it is easier for us as an industry to get on with the task of future building all our services and products.
• Cloud Control and the evolving Cloud Control Languages  "CCL"
• Build it with Wireless  Wireless is a ‘now’ movement in the building automation industry that we all need to better understand. - Control Engineering Asia
• “What did I see from the Summit?” Opening Open! - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
• Convergence and Collaboration from Cloud Data  The marriage of social media as data and its embedded human opinion will seamlessly mesh with real time data, shoulder to shoulder in large databases in a concept now being billed as Big Data or Data as a Service “DaaS”.
  
• Interacting with Energy  Our daily interaction manipulating energy must be done with a lot of personal energy, but now involves interaction with our energy source the smart grid.
• Building Communities  Open Connection Communities are set to shape the future of the building automation industry.
• A Wireless World  Wireless is a “now” movement in our industry that we all need to better understand.
• Open Connection Communities  My overall takeaway from AHR Expo 2012, Chicago...
• The Value of Virtual  What do you think "open" means? What do you think "visible" means?
• Connecting Communities for Continuous Conservation  Visualization through graphics can allow buildings to become an integral part of a community and “Come to Life” while teaching occupants about sustainability.
• Greenmation?  GreenBuild’s theme of "automation"
• What "Open" might mean  One piece of the larger open puzzle is the present restrictions around proprietary control languages.
• Are we “Open” for Business?  Refers to how important being open has become to our industry and how it has helped us grow and become part of something much larger.
• The New Visibility & Interactions in the Building Automation Industry What changes in the last few years have led to the “New Visibility & Interactions in the Building Automation Industry”?
• Embracing Change  Are we embracing the necessary changes enthusiastically and fast enough to keep control of our industry?
  
• “The Past and Future of Control Languages”   A call to the industry to speed their evolution to open protocol for control languages 
• Creating Interactions in Building Automation  We must "Create Interactions" worthy of our visibility and strive to better understand how to interact with the powerful presentations of our information.
• In and Out of the Cloud  Should data be in or out of the cloud?
  
• Cloud Control of Energy and Building Data  The use of cloud computing for the collection, management and analysis of real time and historical building data is now becoming a valuable possibility.
• Making the Invisible Visible  Our powerful far reaching real time network connections transport the invisible via the internet cloud but it is the graphics and their dashboards representations that convert the Invisible to Visible.
  
• Building Automation Moves Up  Up in the clouds and ever-increasing connectivity  Control Engineering Asia
• Does Owning the Meters Make You Smarter?  Only if you do smart things with them. If we own the smart meter or collection of sub-meters we no longer need to deal with other people politics.
• Integrated connected (IC) virtualization Through integrated connected virtualization, the world of large buildings will soon view everything connected differently. 
• Building Grid Connectivity  Building Connectivity is our future.
• Takeaways from ConnectivityWeek 2010  ConnectivityWeek was a great event - with the largest ever registration of over 1300. Many new grid partners created an increased impact with new energy solutions while showing us improved overall organization and connectivity of our industry. 
• Preview of May 24-27 ConnectivityWeek 2010 Santa Clara  Lots of excitement surrounding the buildup to ConnectivityWeek and I have tried to capture and connect you to the points of interest for our industry.
• Building Connections – ConnectivityWeek  This is the place to gain insight into how to unleash opportunities and new business from all of this change
• The next big things: how building automation will change complex installations and commissioning
• The Next Big Things  This dynamic duo will eliminate complex installations, provide; self set up, connection, and commissioning while self populating the needed information for web deployment.
• 2010 to be the year of the smart building app  Because of the evolving reach and complexities of building automation, these solutions need to be several services, not one all-encompassing service. 
• Twenty Ten to be a BAD-ASS Year  At events like AHR Expo we get to test to see if the implied sameness of our content has legs or is becoming reality.
• Our Clouded Future is Bright  Our clouded future includes new virtual connections to our buildings from the communities they are part of with both physical and social interactions. 
• Free Educational Sessions January - Orlando  "Building Automation and the Cloud" 
• Measure, Map & Manage  We Measure and sense almost every piece of building information, then Map to graphical representations to develop strategies for Managing from anywhere, anytime.
• Building Transformation  Green has becomes a questionable color, the new true blue of an economical plus environmental bottom line supported with real dynamic data, presented virtually, anywhere, is the proof of our transformation.
• The Cloud Beyond the Network  As more software and computer services move off-site, a look around suggests that the collaborative power of cloud computing has already begun to reign for those looking to harness real-time building information most efficiently.  Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner, www.AutomatedBuildings.com 
• Keeping our Feet on the Ground While Working in the Cloud "If we want to continue to be leaders in this industry, we must deliver the goods today, Tomorrow is not good enough."  Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner, www.AutomatedBuildings.com 
• Building Cloud Connections  The identification and use of these valuable industry cloud connectors is essential to propel our industry forward at warp speed so it can radically change to survive.
• My Clouded Thinking Clears  The clouds are open and scalable and are my new tool set.
• My Takeaways from ConnectivityWeek  After each year's event I try to list my takeaways of the things that significantly impacted, impressed me and are likely to change my future. 
• The Power of the People  The power of the people lies not just in how we innovate, but also how we are able to share knowledge with others through that innovation.  
• Building Automation Networks  This article provides insight to the evolution to date of Building Automation Networks to Enterprise and Web based networks and on into cloud computing. 
• The Reinvention Convention On June 9, 2009, I will be in Santa Clara, California over seeing the presentation of several sessions on “The Reinvention of Building Automation”. 
• The Reinvention of Building Automation The complexities of our industry reside with us, but the reinvention and representation of our future resides with the new teams we build.
• Mastering middleware for sustainability  When you know how much energy you use, it’s much easier to determine where savings can be achieved.  
• The Reinvention of Building Automation (BA) Building Automation is evolving to a web service that is greatly enhanced with online services.
• Building Automation Sustainability  Whether you view the word “Building” as a noun or a verb the real goal is Sustainability
• Top 12 Issue Favourites - 2008  We thank you all as an industry for being our success in providing incredibly current content that is well read by our reinvented industry.
• Grid Interoperability  Demand response is an important tool in your energy management toolkit. But the future it anticipates could be of even greater benefit to your bottom line. 
• Demand response: turning on to new opportunities  The next frontier for demand response is to move beyond curtailment and leverage the power of building automation systems that exist within or across collections of buildings.
• Reaping the Harvest Daylight harvesting and daylighting controls can make a big difference in your energy bill. And solutions are becoming more flexible all the time.