Small- to medium-sized buildings — usually considered to be under 50,000 square feet — make up about 94% of all commercial buildings in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information ...

SUCCESS NOT AUTOMATIC: While automated HVAC systems can be controlled via sleek internet-connected devices, experts say getting to that point requires technicians to have updated skills and a full ...

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 ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In order for the federal government to successfully implement a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Building automation affects the building occupants’ safety, automates various subsystems’ functionality within the building and can lead to reduced costs. The approach used to reach these goals, ...

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 ...

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 ...