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DAYTON, NJ. – August 16, 2022 – Josh.ai continues expanding upon the power and range of artificial intelligence in the home through an integration with Somfy, the world’s largest manufacturer of tubular motors for interior window coverings and exterior shading solutions. The partnership not only aligns two marquee brands in the custom channel that are focused on the design-build community, but also provides multiple shading and screening fabricators with a recommended voice platform. For clients that want to adjust the degree of daylight warming their homes or conveniently automate a theater screen, Josh.ai now provides them with a natural and privacy-oriented means of control.

The Smart Building industry is on the brink of…..  Scott Cochrane, President & CEO, Cochrane Supply & Engineering

More information about the Project Haystack Connections Magazine and how to submit an article abstract or to Advertise is available at https://marketing.project-haystack.org/connections-magazine/contribute-an-article and https://marketing.project-haystack.org/connections-magazine/advertise.

The AABC Commissioning Group (ACG) announced the release of the ACG Building Systems Commissioning Guideline. The new digital publication, organized by specific types of building systems, offers insight and strategies from experienced commissioning providers on a variety of topics, and is designed to help providers execute the ASHRAE Standard 202 commissioning process effectively and efficiently—while overcoming common challenges encountered in both design and field settings. 

New York, USA, April 18, 2022: Facilio, a leading global property operations software platform; Airmaster, an Australia-based award-winning building services company, and NEJAVI, a sales advisory and delivery service focusing on digital transformation and business process, today announced a strategic partnership. The partnership will help real estate portfolio owners and operators realize next-level operational savings, energy efficiency, and improved building performance. 

Somfy, the world’s largest manufacturer of motors for interior window coverings and exterior solar protections, today announces the launch of the Li-ion Solar Panel, filling the need for a  greener alternative to power wirefree motorized window shades and blinds. The innovative solar charging solution harnesses renewable solar energy to power motorized window coverings in a cost-effective way that also reduces end-user maintenance. 

Remembering Barry Haaser

the number of buildings globally deploying smart building technologies will reach 115 million in 2026, from 45 million in 2022.
This growth of over 150% reflects increasing demand for energy efficiency from businesses and residents alike, as energy costs spike.

The Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) has released a new report, Grid-Forming Technology in Energy Systems Integration, providing a comprehensive view of advanced inverter controls needed to run stable power systems with high shares of renewable energy. To maintain grid stability and reliability in power systems with increasing numbers of inverter-based resources (IBRs), some IBRs will need to have new functionality to enable them to provide system services that were previously provided by traditional synchronous generators. As IBR levels rise, new advanced inverter controls—termed grid-forming (GFM)—will be needed to maintain system stability.

Here is the Video Recording from our 3rd Free Webinar of the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. Don’t forget you can now Subscribe to ALL our Webinars & Podcasts on YouTube!  Memoori was joined by Mike Brooman, CEO of Vanti, to discuss The Developers Smart Building Project Canvas and try to answer the question, How can developers start to adopt technology in their buildings with the confidence to succeed? The canvas has been released under a Creative Commons license, so it is free to download, share and modify, as long as attribution is maintained.

• As the largest energy-saving policy measure in U.S. history, the new Department of Energy minimum efficiency standards for residential and commercial HVAC equipment go into effect January 1, 2023
• Johnson Controls is committed to helping its dealers, contractors and partners address challenges these new regulations bring to make the transition as smooth as possible
  

Cogniac and Cisco Meraki Partner to Automate Operations with Computer Vision

The new book Suddenly Hybrid: Managing the Modern Meeting  (Wiley) co-authored by Emmy winning former broadcast journalist and on camera communications specialist, Karin Reed, and the nation’s top organizational meetings research scientist, Joseph A. Allen PhD., breaks down exactly how to make this new business model work for everyone.

Karin and Joe are both available to comment on Google’s hybrid announcement and how American businesses can successfully make the same transition to a hybrid work model, regardless of their size.

Johnson Controls to address top industry challenges, from decarbonization to healthy buildings, at the 2022 AHR Expo

• Booth C1336 will showcase connected, sustainable technologies and solutions, including OpenBlue, the company’s comprehensive digital offering
• Visitors will learn how connected solutions can facilitate occupant wellness, track energy usage and system efficiency and help reach sustainability goals
• Company experts will be on hand to discuss DOE 2023 energy efficiency regulations, indoor air quality and the transition to low-GWP refrigerants

MILWAUKEE – (January 6, 2022) – Johnson Controls, the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, will address the worldwide HVAC industry’s top challenges with an array of new products and solutions at the 2022 AHR Expo (booth C1336) Jan. 31 through Feb. 2 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Johnson Controls exhibit will focus on the importance of connectivity and innovation to solve today’s built-environment challenges, reinforcing its commitment to helping customers reach their energy efficiency and sustainability goals through the latest AI and digital technologies.

The City of Las Vegas unveils advanced Digital Twin at Consumer Electronics Showcase (CES)

Cityzenith’s ambitious project to help Las Vegas building owners transition to net-zero carbon emissions has completed its first stage.

The Las Vegas Digital Twin project encompasses a 7 sq km area of downtown Las Vegas and will leverage the city’s advanced 5G networking and cutting-edge IoT sensor network to power advanced analytics that fundamentally transform mobility, air quality, noise pollution, water management, and in particular, emissions from major buildings across the city.

ATLANTA (November 11, 2021) –  ASHRAE was represented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, held from October 31-November 12.

ASHRAE formally participated as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and an official COP observer. The United Nations granted permission for select organizations to participate in COP26 activities.

More than 60 of the largest and most influential international architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, planning, and construction firms, along with two dozen organizations representing over one million building industry professionals worldwide, issued a Communiqué to government leaders headed to COP26 challenging them to step up their emissions reduction targets for the built environment. The firms and organizations are signatories of the 1.5°C COP26 Communiqué — an open letter to sovereign governments demonstrating the firms’ and organizations’ commitment to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C carbon budget and demanding governments do the same.

ASHRAE’s focus at COP26 was to emphasize the importance of the building community’s participation in addressing the climate crisis. Architecture 2030 and ASHRAE hosted a COP26 Official Side Event on November 10 featuring the 1.5°C COP26 Communiqué and its signatories. The event titled 65% by 2030 / ZERO by 2040: Top 200 Global Firms and Organizations Lead With 1.5°C Climate Actions highlighted ways in which the signatories are responding to the urgency of the climate crisis and specific actions to decarbonize the built world and meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C carbon budget.

At the side event, 2021-22 ASHRAE Treasurer Ginger Scoggins, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, CEM, CxA, highlighted the world’s growing building stock and the role of built environment organizations, such as ASHRAE, in assisting both policymakers and industry leaders in better understanding their impact on our climate change solutions.

“ASHRAE signed onto the 1.5°C COP26 Communiqué and we are here today because engineers and scientists involved with HVACR and building systems have been and will continue to be advancing solutions to address climate change,” said Scoggins. “We are here because we recognize that the built environment is a key source contributing to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and with the building stock continuing to expand and doubling by 2050, solutions from the buildings community is ever more critical.”

Additionally, Scoggins spoke about the credibility of ASHRAE’s technical resources and global standing in the development of consensus-based standards.

“ASHRAE’s flagship Energy Conservation Standard 90.1 is the benchmark for commercial building energy codes in the United States and has been a key basis for codes and standards around the world for more than 45 years, reducing energy consumption by 50%, yet only 38 countries have specifically named building standards and codes in their Nationally Determined Contributions,” said Scoggins. “Many of the countries where the building stock is expected to grow do not require energy standards for buildings. ASHRAE signed the buildings industry’s communique, and we are ready to help policy makers and the buildings industry around the world transform our building stock into one that is sustainable, resilient, and healthy. We are here to be part of the solution and we are up to the challenge.”

In a separate statement, 2021-21 ASHRAE President Mick Schwedler, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, LEED AP, commented on ASHRAE’s participation at COP26 and shared additional ways that the Society is addressing climate change.

“ASHRAE's climate action efforts exemplify the Society’s core dedication to engineering excellence in environmental stewardship,” said Schwedler. “The ASHRAE Global Headquarters building renovation project demonstrates that existing buildings can be transformed into net-zero-energy structures cost-effectively, using current off-the shelf technologies. Our Advanced Energy Design Guides, developed with our partners, provide zero energy K-12 schools and office buildings guides to equip designers in achieving zero energy and significantly reducing carbon. ASHRAE is proud to work with other world leaders to not only raise awareness of the issues surrounding climate change, but collectively seek to redefine the built environment for the times and continually explore what is possible through industry leading innovation.”

Watch a recording of the side event on the ASHRAE Task Force For Building Decarbonization webpage. For more information on COP26, visit https://ukcop26.org/

Chicago, IL: November 8, 2021 -- The SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic is emphasizing and amplifying the need for transparency and accountability in building performance data. Gathering, analyzing, and gaining actionable intelligence from building performance data is critical. That is why making indoor spaces smarter, safer, and greener begins with data.  DLR Group is working with Atrius to provide a robust backbone for the Intelligent Air Quality analytics platform's energy component, sonrai IAQ™ by DLR Group.

Danbury, CT, October 12, 2021, Belimo Americas releases a new line of thermal energy meters designed to EN1434 for accurate flow and energy measurement equipped for IoT-based billing. The energy meters have a patented glycol compensation algorithm that automatically selects the correct glycol concentration to provide proper flow and energy measurement, ensuring reliable performance and eliminating manual input and inaccuracy from hydronic heating and cooling systems. Key features include:

• Optional PoE (Power over Ethernet) simplifies installation
• BAS integration via BACnet MSTP/ BACnet IP and Modbus RTU Modbus IP
• Easily set or adjust parameters using NFC or a web server
• Ethernet connectivity supports remote IoT metering and billing
• Built-in data logger captures energy, flow, and operational data for system optimization and efficiency

Airthings, the global leader in Indoor Air Quality Monitoring solutions for building professionals: earlier today, Airthings officially introduced a new product to its portfolio - View CO₂ for Business.
The new battery-operated, wireless sensor will empower businesses, facilities, and schools everywhere to take charge of their air quality by warning them when carbon dioxide (CO₂) exceeds recommended levels and indoor air quality deteriorates. 

Collaboration, Integration, Education”   We need to better understand the complex mosaic of our collaborative teams

BYE I T! - Well that’s it, I’m officially dropping the gauntlet on IT departments of businesses that exist in buildings with a modern BAS system within. Scott Cochrane

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month  Marc Petock Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Lynxspring, Inc.

Future Creation Canvas  Nicolas Waern  "The Building Whisperer"

Twenty Years of Making Buildings Smarter   Steve Jones, Founder and Managing Partner

Secure Remote Access Solutions Without a Cloud-Based VPN Server  Kathy Neumeyer Technical Writer at Contemporary Controls

Announcing The 10th Issue of Project Haystack Connections Magazine

DIY Recruiting – Part one (of three)  Skip Freeman, Senior Technical Recruiter, BASI Solutions, Inc.

70’s-Era City Plaza Transforms from the Inside Out   Therese Sullivan, Tridium, Inc.

High-Performance “Future Ready Total Building Solutions” 

Collaborative Education: AI with NoCode AI Sudha Jamthe

Labor shortages meet Robbie the Robot!   Manny Mandrusiak

Why Cloud and Edge Intelligence Need Each Other in the Smart Building Space

BACnet International Interview with Andy McMillan BACnet Secure Connect October 2021

Robots in Retail - Manny

Lynxspring’s Chief Marketing & Communications Officer discusses the company’s new Onyxx® LX line
of ASC controllers, digital room sensors and thermostats with Ken Sinclair.

INTERVIEW – with Jan Peterson, General Manager of XCSpec, Inc. & Ken Sinclair

Interview - “Creating A Safer, More Productive Workplace With Touchless Technology” with Jay Hsueh and Ken Sinclair

(Detroit, MI) - Cochrane Supply & Engineering, a Leading Smart Building Controls Supplier headquartered in Madison Heights, MI, today announced the official re-launch of CochraneSupply.com. Making a revamped debut as an e-commerce website, the company’s new online experience aims to bring increased efficiency, resources and convenience to not only its large customer base across the Midwestern and Western United States, but also to the industry as a whole.  Several years in the making, the new website acts as a resource library with more than 41,500 building control software and hardware products from more than 100 manufacturers. Users can search through the entire Cochrane Supply catalog in a variety of ways, including by product name or number, manufacturer or category, with resulting product pages featuring standardized product descriptions and downloadable documentation. As the company continues to roll out its robust e-commerce site plans, users can expect to also find associated available training on pertinent product pages as well.

Danbury, CT, May 20, 2021– Belimo is excited to announce a partnership with Bidtracer. Bidtracer is a sales, operations, and channel management tool for product manufacturers. Belimo’s entire product range is now accessible on Bidtracer, providing us exposure to thousands of users, making it easier to select and attain specification data, technical datasheets, and add our products to schedules.

Incorporating Belimo into Bidtracer enables users to efficiently select Belimo products for estimating projects, service agreements, and repairs. It offers multiple modules for bid management, proposal generation, and document sharing with subcontractors and customers.

San Ramon, Calif. and Piscataway, N.J. – May 20, 2021 – The Thread Group, an industry alliance addressing IoT convergence, and challenges around security, energy footprint, and architecture at the network layer, together with the DALI Alliance (DiiA), the global industry organization for DALI lighting control, today announced that the DALI Alliance has adopted Thread as the first network technology that will be available with DALI+.

The DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) protocol for digital lighting control enables the easy installation of robust, scalable, and flexible lighting networks. The DALI+ specification, announced in early May 2021, brings DALI lighting-control commands to wireless and Internet Protocol (IP)-based systems. DALI+ with Thread will be the first network transport to deliver DALI over wireless, IP-based networks.

Danbury, CT, May 14, 2021– Belimo is eager to introduce a new era of integrated thermal energy management. Be part of this groundbreaking change and join our virtual event on Thursday, June 10 at 9:00 AM (Eastern Time).

Belimo’s technology experts will use practical examples to show how our new groundbreaking device will increase energy efficiency and reduce operating costs. The webinar is geared for individuals within the HVAC industry; building technology, building automation, general contractors/investors, consulting engineers, system integrators, installers/plant engineers, building owners, facility managers/building maintenance, and OEMs. We will unveil and demonstrate the new integrated thermal energy device and provide in-depth conversation with the developers, experts, customers, and partners.

This new innovation marks Belimo’s commitment to bring more sustainability into buildings while optimizing energy efficiency throughout the HVAC system. Be one of the first to learn about this innovation; sign up now for our event!

INTERVIEW - Intelligent Buildings Co-Founders: Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison & Ken Sinclalr

Interview - Sharada Prahladrao, Editor & Public Relations Manager, ARC Advisory Group, India and Ken Sinclair

J2 Innovations releases Project Haystack 4 open-source library: Haystack Core to help developers create smart building and IoT applications more easily and faster  TypeScript-based initiative paves the way for highly-sophisticated Haystack solutions that can manage energy usage, reduce emissions and leverage new technologies; revolutionizing the way the industry creates IoT-oriented solutions Coincides with commemoration of 10 years since Project Haystack’s formation, at Project Haystacks’ conference - Haystack Connect 2021 on 4-6th May 2021

Victoria, BC, Canada – Reliable Controls is excited to announce a new location for its Singapore office. This large new space is well equipped to support the Reliable Controls Authorized Dealer network with sales and service in Southeast Asia.

SUNNYVALE, CA, APRIL 20, 2021 -  Kloudspot, Inc., makers of the first network-enabled and cloud-based Situational Awareness and Intelligence Platform, today introduced KloudHybrid^(TM) a new solution that redefines ‘hybrid’ work as an enriched experience that goes beyond providing employees with physical work location flexibility. KloudHybrid enables workers to virtually join colleagues in a physical workspace for real-time collaboration experiences that transcend both video meetings and traditional work management and digital workspace solutions.

MILWAUKEE, WI — April 21, 2021 — Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, today announced that its chairman and CEO George Oliver has been invited by U.S. President Joe Biden to participate in the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate.

13 April 2021, Ghent, BELGIUM – Waylay, a leading enterprise automation software company at the forefront of digital transformation has today announced Waylay IO, its new product offering for developers.

Waylay IO is a low-code development platform that reduces the complexity of the application development process. Its automation technology uses small snippets of code, reusable across different use cases, and orchestrated by the powerful rules engine. The automation platform offers necessary tools in one place and helps developers to experiment with data and create insightful new applications and business models quicker than ever before. https://www.waylay.io/articles/waylay-announces-waylay-io

The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) and its partners today announced the launch of the Green Buildings Career Map, an interactive career map highlighting the breadth of rewarding career opportunities in building energy efficiency. The Map was supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Building Technologies Office, in partnership with the Building Performance Association (BPA), Community Action Partnership (CAP), Home Builders Institute (HBI), Building Performance Institute, and National Institute of Building Sciences. 

April issue "Adaptation"

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

Adaption   “Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.” Marc Petock Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Lynxspring, Inc.
Connected Complexity The Padi Platform:Open-Source Tools For Open Data Represented from  https://harborresearch.com/connected-complexity/

demystify the complexity   We are adapting because Change is the only constant..Sudha Jamthe is a Technology Futurist and CEO of IoTDisruptions

Is there a need for Digital Triplets? Quadruplets? Siblings even?   How can we adapt to a world that was, that is, and will be? How can we adapt to a future that is unknown? Nicolas Waern "The Building Whisperer"

“The Only Constant is Change”   Virtual reality is just not quite the same as the real deal, but in alignment with this month’s publication theme “Adaption”
 Phillip Kopp, CEO Conectric Networks

What if Less is More?  Why do products "need" to do everything? Andy Frank Founder & Principal Novant

Secrets of Success and Thoughts on Where the BAS Industry is Headed   Scott Cochrane, President and CEO of Cochrane Supply & Engineering, Interviews Martin Villeneuve, SVP of Distributed Building Technology for Acuity Brands and President of Distech Controls

EMAIL INTERVIEW – The S4 Group, Inc. was founded by Steven E. Jones The S4 group just celebrated its 19 year anniversary!

Andy McMillan and Ken Sinclair  BACnet International launched BRITE, which stands for BACnet Remote Interoperability Test Environment

Accelerating Innovation, Disrupting the Building Automation Industry and ‘Driving to 1M’  Scott Cochrane, President and CEO of Cochrane Supply & Engineering, Interviews Ken Schmidt, Global Managing Director, Tridium

INTERVIEW – with Don Kasper is VP of Strategy and Business Development at Sentient Buildings

ADAPTING TO SMART GRID RESILIENCY  A MUST-HAVE FOR SMART CITIES INTERVIEW WITH JAMES CARLINI

CORK, Ireland, March 31, 2021 — Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, today announced the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) has approved its ambitious emissions reductions targets.

The targets covering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Johnson Controls’ operations (scopes 1 and 2) are consistent with reductions required to keep warming to 1.5°C, the most ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement. Johnson Controls’ target for emissions from its value chain (scope 3) also meet the SBTi’s criteria for ambitious value chain goals, and are therefore in line with current industry best practice

https://www.enocean.com/en/about-us/press-releases/enocean-joins-cisco-dna-spaces-to-bring-self-powered-iot-devices-to-smart-spaces/

https://cityzenith.com/post/digital-twins-can-prevent-us-cities-under-reporting-their-carbon-emissions

Honeywell is betting big on in-building communications. Today, the company announced it has acquired Fiplex to strengthen their communications solutions with the industry’s most advanced bi-directional amplifier (BDA) capabilities that enhance radio frequency in challenging environments to ensure the safety of first responders and those they rescue.

https://www.ashrae.org/about/news/2021/ashrae-forms-task-force-for-building-decarbonization

March - Our Amazing Women Choose to Challenge  sub-theme is  "Be the Change" which fits well, because from
challenge comes change the IWD 2021 campaign theme.

Investing in Our Future  Discussion Regarding Technology, Climate Change, and Education in the Building Automation Industry - Kimberly Brown, Tech Services Manager

Cochrane Supply Women on Fire  From WTF to Lighting a Spark in the Industry - So, for any woman considering a career in building automation and controls, their team has compiled insights and recommendations to hopefully inspire taking that next step. To join the growing percentage of women contributing to the industry. And to do it in a way that you’re not only successful, but also viewed as a Woman on Fire…

Women of Cimetrics: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going Let’s meet some of the amazing women of Cimetrics and learn what they do for the company, their experiences as women in technology, how they got to where they are, and what advice they have. Cimetrics is a 30-year world leader and innovator in the field of physical world analytics and is a supplier of cybersecurity and networking technology

2021: The Year BMS will Bridge the Gap for Human Connection Why the industry is poised to bring global communities back together. Lauren Scott Director, Marketing Distech Controls

Womansplaining Building Automation  It is the opposite of mansplaining. Learn a topic from a competent woman and it is not unsolicited. Sudha Jamthe is
a Technology Futurist and CEO of IoTDisruptions
Why we need to #ChooseToChallenge For me, #ChooseToChallenge and International Women’s Day not only holds me to account to ensure I am doing all I can as a woman, it also allows me to learn about all of women around me. Kerri Lee Sinclair Chair SBE Australia
A Mentored Education Mentorships bridge experience gaps and provide a vital complement to our traditional training structures. Monica Holbrook Senior Project Specialist at Climatec

Connect, connect, connect.  That is the way I experience women being the change that we want to see in the world. Leigh Sinclair Ordained Minister at St. David's United Church
The impact is a woman We are seeing that, in a world dominated by men, women are finally beginning to play an increasingly important role. Katarzyna Goleniewska Marketing Director Global Control 5

The End of the BAS Era   By Scott Cochrane, President and CEO, Cochrane Supply & Engineering; Contributing Editor, AutomatedBuildings.com

Haystack Connect 2021 Agenda Takes Shape    As in past years, presentations will focus on real-world challenges in integrating diverse systems and data, and are delivered by individuals leading the effort to streamline data interchange through the use of Project Haystack technology. John Petze, Executive Director, Project Haystack, and Marc Petock, Executive Secretary, Project Haystack
Concerns, Interesting and Chuckles One of the many new normal adjustments resulting from the pandemic is the increased use of hybrid models whether it be where we work, how we work, or when we work. Marc Petock
Building Automation and AI? Set the data free. Provide Meaning. And let’s go!   Nicolas Waern  "The Building Whisperer"

Powering the Future – ABB’s Multi-Site Retail Controls  An Interview with Angela Scott, ABB Commercial Energy Solutions, Multi-Site Retail and Ken Sinclair

Shifting to PropTech:  An interview with Gina Elliott & Ken Sinclair

INTERVIEW – Marc Petock, Contributing Editor Automated Buildings and Chief Marketing and Communications of Lynxspring sits down with Erin DeFrieze.

Therese Sullivan, Marketing Director, Tridium, Interviews Laura Kevitt, Product Manager, Tridium

Why Buildings Need People INTERVIEW By Natalie Patton, Q&A with Bridget Davies

A Conversation with Melissa Dziuawiec, President and CFO, Lynxspring.

ROGER REBENNACK of Jackson Controls and Ken Sinclair tells us about the great women at Jackson Control.

Interview with Troy Byers, P.E., TBE, CxA,  about plans for CxEnergy 2021 Virtual.

View from America: Sustainable Infrastructure using Active Site Technology   KNX Newsletter

Your New Vocation, Building Automation  Our amazing Building Automation Industry has always provided a very interesting fun (and financially stable) vocation

Together Apart  The COVID-zation of 2020 has created, injected, extracted, but mostly simply accelerated many new relationships.

IoT Pioneer Creates SMART Sensor with Capabilities the BAS Industry Never Imagined   Scott Cochrane Interviews David Antar, President, IPVideo Corporation

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

Industry Training Links and Learning Blogs  The new evolving model of AutomatedBuildings.com is to connect and link to the amazing amount of articles, training and blog bits

'Smart Retrofitting: The Key to Decarbonizing the Built Environment’ responds to the construction industry’s role in the Paris Agreement, examining how we can mitigate carbon emissions through the smart retrofitting of built assets.

Key information includes:

• By 2050, 75% of buildings that exist today will be energy inefficient
• Retrofitting existing buildings must be prioritized to meet energy-saving targets
• Digital twins offer the most comprehensive resource for retrofitting at scale
• A global strategy based on data analytics is required to drive the decarbonization of the built environment

Our December issue is full of news  read my editorial   December "Requesting Innovation  "Create your "Request for Proposal for Innovation" to procure the "Edge of the Next Wave"

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.

Ecosystem of Innovators in Building Services    INTERVIEW – Rick Rolston, CEO and Founder, BuiltSpace   It’s really all about better processes for environmental infection control.

INBAC - Stronger and smarter together  A great response from the audience in India and around the world. We had 682 registrations and 222 participants live during the panel discussion. Sakhee Chandrayan President of INBAC

WATTICS+ARC: NEW TECHNOLOGY  Has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way building owners and managers view Antonio Ruzzelli CEO and founder of Wattics

Amazon Sidewalk is bringing long range, low power to Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for smart home devices.Marc Pegulu, Vice President IOT Strategy and Products, Semtech

Virus Risk Indicator We chatted with Airthings CEO, Oyvind Birkenes, about the new feature and his vision for the brand.

Exclusive Preview: Delta Controls 2020 Virtual Summit (December 3-4)

November 12, 2020 Vaisala’s cloud-based monitoring system enters North American market The cloud-based system enables top-of the-line humidity and temperature trend monitoring, bringing extended benefits for its users regarding long-term investment and implementation time. Vaisala, a global leader in weather, environmental, and industrial measurements, announced today the availability of its latest cloud-based measurement system, the Vaisala Jade Smart Cloud, in the North American market.

Navigating Never Never with Mr Linkair

Eight Months In In just a few months’ time, the COVID-19 crisis has brought about years of change, has disrupted the economy, accelerated shifts in how we do things, and created changes that will be with us forever Marc Petock Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Lynxspring, Inc

“The Call of the Wild”  Answering a Request for Proposal in Innovation  Nicolas Waern "The Building Whisperer"

Versatile Edge Controllers Powered by Raspberry Pi  Advanced features, convenient form factor, and cloud connectivity – giving you the ability to make any attached equipment a cloud-connected asset  Zach Netsov Product Specialist, Contemporary Controls

Cameras are Watching  Let us make them watch the world for us to make our lives easier and more productive and fun  Sudha Jamthe is a Technology Futurist and CEO of IoTDisruptions

Open Systems: A Key Pillar to the Mass Adoption of Building Automation Technology Author: Omar Tabba, VP Products & Solutions, BrainBox AI

Edge AI Empowers Smarter Building Management  With edge AI, data is processed as close to the source as possible using real-time precision analytics. Senthil M Kumar, VP FogHorn

Facilities Management Software?  A recent report by McKinsey suggests that the global market for facilities management is estimated to reach $1.9 trillion by 2024. Craig Greenhalgh, Research Analyst at Comparesoft

The CREM's Digital Toolbox Download the workplace leader's handbook of digital tools today and step up to the challenges of tomorrow. Locatee

Transformation + "Tossing Transformation Torches" 

Is your building cybersecure? Data, privacy, the cloud and security in this age of hyper-connectivity By Kevin Callahan, Product Evangelist Alerton, and Pook-Ping Yao, CEO at Optigo Networks

Crabs in a Pail As an outsider and interloper in the Building Automation vertical, it’s been interesting to compare and contrast BAS to other verticals embracing industry 4.0  William Behn President | Tosibox Inc.

The Heart of Supervising  The Covid-19 crisis is adding a new layer of systems to be managed, in office, retail, education and manufacturing buildings, to assist with monitoring and control of occupancy levels and social distancing.  Chris Irwin, VP Sales EMEA & VP Global Marketing at J2 Innovations

Getting Back to Fundamentals With the current COVID-19 pandemic, there is a surge of concern regarding poor indoor air quality (IAQ) due to insufficient or improperly-designed/applied HVAC systems. Philip R. Juneau

The Building Utility Wed, Sep 23, 2020  It could be argued that networking technology has become the most important component of IT technology, even though it started out as an isolated, very specialized, discipline. Without the network everything is an island! the S4 Group

Inside Buildings IOT’s Ontology Alignment Project (OAP) Convergence of Haystack and Brick is a common hope amongst the many data hungry people out there looking for a standard to follow. Brian Turner CEO at Buildings IO

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month This year’s theme is: “Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart.” Marc Petock Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Lynxspring, Inc.

The Future of Access Control in Automated Buildings  The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the world and made safety more important than ever. Employers are now responsible to provide healthy and safe workplaces and many are looking to access control solutions to do just that Imran Anwar Swiftlane

Everybody Wants their Space in the Booming Occupancy Analytics Market    Republished from Memoori click here for complete article

The Humanity of AI Automation  Everything we do is woven by a social fabric across global cultures.  Sudha Jamthe CEO IoTDisruptions

Hiring Managers Oh No! Not Another Article on "Interview Tips" Skip Freeman, Senior Technical Recruiter, BASI Soution, Inc.

11 episodes of the Beyond Buildings Podcast.  What have we learned, and what thoughts and questions have arisen from the first two episodes? Nicolas Waern "The Building Whisperer"

Zoom-etiquette Online meetings have taken over many of our lives to keep us safe from COVID, but are they driving us crazy? Manny Mandrusiak CD. Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant Vancouver Island Works Project

Integrated Building Automation Community We have heard INBAC is putting together an outstanding industry event focused on building automation in India Sakhee Chandrayan President of INBAC

What’s new with AABC? Associated Air Balance Council Sinclair: How has COVID-19 affected the testing, adjusting, and balancing industry? Mike Kelly, TBE, CxA, American Testing, Inc., Incoming AABC President

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.

ARC’s 18th India Forum titled Driving Digital Transformation in Industry and Cities on September 8-9, 2020 was a virtual event and attracted over 300 delegates.  This two-day virtual forum provided end users, solution providers and decision makers an opportunity to learn from each other and get an overall view of the market and its requirements.