The maturation of communications technologies and the expansion of industry standards relating to cabling systems and protocols have made facilities and IT managers hungry for a single cabling system ...

The quest for open, integrated building systems has occupied the collective consciousness of the design and construction world for some time now. Leading the charge have been bold owners and designers ...

Ethernet has become a mainstream communications protocol and sits atop the control pyramid in building automation. Recently, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defined an ...

With most buildings still operating during the lockdown, typically without manual input, this is a perfect opportunity to elevate the use of cloud-based, remote building automation systems (BAS) for ...

Chris Lane is the Director of Product Management for Building Automation System (BAS) products at Johnson Controls. In this role, Lane leads a team of product managers responsible for defining the ...

In building automation, the user interface often determines how quickly an operator can understand system performance or respond to an alarm. While controllers, networks, and protocols get most of the ...

Penn State chose microsegmentation technology from Tempered Networks to isolate and cloak traffic from its smart-building systems, which rely on the BACnet communications protocol to share data. It ...

Researchers developed a framework to enable decentralized artificial intelligence-based building automation with a focus on privacy. The system enables AI-powered devices like cameras and interfaces ...

The integration of generative AI (GenAI) into tools such as cloud-based SaaS (software-as-a-service) products are driving dynamic transformation in the industrial automation space. The emergence of ...

Download this article in PDF format. Buildings—with a carbon footprint even greater than that of the transportation sector—account for a significant portion of the total energy consumption in the ...