If it can open or close, turn on or off, or has a motor, it can be automated. Building automation can be described as a network of a building’s mechanical, HVAC, and lighting controls normally brought ...

Growing customer demands for open, interoperable subsystems, along with widely available, high-speed information-technology networks, have fueled the transformation of the building-automation sector ...

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 ...

BOULDER, Colo. — The commercial building automation system (BAS) market is at a crossroads, notes Navigant Research. Large technology companies that have provided equipment and services for the ...

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 ...

It’s 2020, and the global standards for building electrical systems are still based on 70-year-old Thomas Edison era electromechanical architecture that is outdated, prone to malfunction, and lacking ...