IoT Makes Smart Buildings Even Smarter  We don’t believe a building in the age of digital disruption is truly “smart” until it enables its occupants. - Bob Snyder, Content Chairman, the pan-European Smart Building Conference

Small Commercial Building Energy Use  There is nothing small about the impact that small commercial buildings have on energy use. - Steven Guzelimian, President, Optergy

RIP2E: REAL IP to the Edge The IoT BAS of a future smart building will have hundreds more connected devices than today, so will have to run much faster to keep the bigger traffic flow moving. RIP2E's Internet Universal Protocol (IUP) can do that because it runs more than twice as fast.  - Tony Marshallsay

Modernizing Historic Buildings  We find that the most successful improvements balance the demands of building codes, functionality, efficiency and architectural aesthetics. - Tammy Fulop, Vice President of Energy and Sustainability Services, Schneider Electric.

Playing Metadata Tag "U R it.  Brick Schema builds on the concept of tags from Project Haystack and enriches the schema with an underlying ontology that crystallizes the concepts defined by the tags… - Therese Sullivan, Principal, BuildingContext Ltd.

IoT has Positively Disrupted Our Industry  The Building Automation industry will continue to accelerate and the cloud will begin to play a much larger role in our industry. - Chris Lofaso, President, CEO, Envise

2016 ControlTrends Awards On track to have the best ControlTrends Awards show ever.  Last year’s Sunday night show in Orlando, FL, was a great success.  - Ken Smyers, ControlTrends

A Waste of Space  The impact of misused, underused and unused workspaces on efficiency, cost and morale. - Nic Milani, Executive Director, Cloud Solutions, Crestron

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