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Ken
Sinclair is the
founder / publisher / owner of AutomatedBuildings.com, an online
magazine and web
resource providing the news as well as connection to the rapidly
evolving industry that automates and implement truly intelligent,
integrated buildings.
AutomatedBuildings.com has entered its 23th year
as an on line magazine and web resource. We provide the news and
connection to the community of change agents that are creating our
present definition of smart, intelligent, integrated, connected, green,
and converged large buildings.
Our virtual magazine and web resource
provides a searchable platform for discussion and exchange while
creating opportunities for B2B for all new and existing
stakeholders.
I
have
authored numerous industry articles on internet integration and
convergence for several international magazines and have provided free
automation seminars at each AHRExpo for the last 20 years. We are
extremely proud of the thousands of industry articles we
have published on our website. All these articles and interviews, which
originally seemed a little like future watch, have become the new
reality shaping our industry. All information on our web site is free.
Below
are my LinkedIn Groups and Twitter link.
YoungEnergy Group
for the engagement
of the industry task of attracting Youth for our IOT journey.
Editorials, Articles
&
Columns
- June 2022 - Why AI?
We have gone past the 'why do we need AI'
to 'why we should participate in building AI.'
- May 2022 -
"Enabling Value by Improving Infrastructure"
- "Radical Reinvention Reconfiguration & Forced Evolution"
- " Women Creating Amazing Opportunities
"
A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
A world where difference is valued and celebrated.
- February -"Vegas Winds & Wins"
- January - "Defining You in 2022"
How you Adapt, Navigate, Embrace, Connect Virtually in 2022 will define you.
- Editorial December
"Vetting Vegas "
AHRExpo Vegas first F2F major event of 2022
- "Creating Clarity”
Our success depends on bringing Clarity to the Complex
- 5 Questions with a Buildings Automation Expert
- "Collaboration, Integration, Education”
We need to better understand the complex mosaic of our collaborative teams
- Smarter Sustainability Decarbonization & Electrification
- 2022 Las Vegas AHR Expo Educational Sessions
- September Smarter Sustainability
Decarbonization & Electrification
- August Issue
- "Delivering Smarter Buildings"
- July - "Navigating Next New"
- Our June issue theme is "Pushing Digital Dinosaurs"
The theme is about the end of several eras and the beginning of new ones full of change
- LinkedIn post on Trust
-
Digital Twin Morphing to Triplets + New Wireless Wave
As
we are all trying to get our minds around the concept of creating and
using a digital twin our Contributing Editor, Nicolas gives birth to
Triplets and suggests more variants are on the way
- "Adaptation"
What has 50 years in the industry taught me? The more I learn the
less I know, but "Adaptation" is our survival superpower.
- Choose to Challenge
because from challenge
comes change the IWD 2021 campaign theme: so let's all choose to
challenge
-
"Be the Change"
We can not just watch or even just react to change, we must be the change.
- Your New Vocation Building Automation
Whether you read "Building" as a verb or noun,
investigate being part of our Building Automation Industry to satisfy your
Curiosity, Passion, Innovation,
Motivation, Location, and Edge-You-Cation.
-
Together Apart
Now that we have been Covid-ized we have seen the value and
necessity of working together apart.
-
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
- 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.
-
Mr. Linkair Do not just talk about Transformation
and how it links our past knowns to the uncertainties of our future unknowns. "Just Do It!"
-
Navigating Never Never
Our Transformation is deep inside where we said we would never, never,
go; we all need more information and discussion to successfully
navigate our new never. "You are Never coming back once you transform"
- 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.
- Online Education
Anywhere, "Edge-You-Cation"
Unabridged version COVID-19 has us all on
edge, even pushing us over the edge, by challenging all conventional
thought and wisdom by sending us home or to camp out anywhere in
between with new definitions of our workspace which is transitioning
from physical to virtual space and interactions. Ken Sinclair Founder,
Owner, Publisher AutomatedBuildings.com
- Combining Collaborating Communities Competencies
"Changing Control Freaks to Scrum Masters" Unabridged version We need
to Combine, Collaborate all our available Competencies to create
powerful never before seen or conceived hybrid outcome driven services
from our known and unknown Communities of Trust
- Online Education Anywhere, "Edge-You-Cation"
Unabridged version COVID-19 has us all on edge, even pushing us over
the edge, by challenging all conventional thought and wisdom by sending
us home or to camp out anywhere in between with new definitions of our
workspace which is transitioning from physical to virtual space and
interactions.
- Creating Outcome-Based Platforms of Trust
The
new corporate mandate requires that all employees be assured that they
are safe at home, at the office, and in the in-between.
- Building Communities of Trust
Trust is the new currency, a commodity we need to create as part of our remote renaissance.
- Embracing Enlightenment
Ken Sinclair, contractormag
- Reinvention, Rebirth, Renaissance
Ken Sinclair, contractormag
- COVID-19 New Normal is Not Normal
Ken Sinclair, contractormag
- Research, Reinvent, Recreate, Reboot - Repeat if Necessary
Ken Sinclair, contractormag
- Adopting Adaption - Achieving Antifragility
The ongoing global pandemic has shown us all how fast we can adapt for survival.
- Global
Reboot -
Adopting Adaption
So, what will that global reboot look like? -
- Wake up to Wireless Ways
Wireless network ways provide a future-proofed, AI-driven self-discovery schema.
- Talking Today's Tools
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
intelligent, it is the one that is most adaptable to change.
- HVAC:Born Again Connected
We need to imagine what every HVACR product would look like if it was
"born again connected."
- Industry's Amazing Women
Take this time to recognize the womrn in our industry.
- What Does Open Mean to You?
Just returning from AHRExpo Orlando and a very successful Open discussion for an Open Future.
- Born Again Connected
Perception of our
reality is everything. We need a method to disconnect from our
perceptions and imagine ourselves "Born Again Connected.”
- Open Your Mind, Get Out of Your Head
Step
away from your hectic life. Open your mind, and to put it simply, get
out of your head.
- Decarbonization is Our Climate Emergency
It
falls to us—to whoever is able—to take action in spite of National and
International floundering.
- Building Engagement Platforms
The age of IoT, IP and digital transformation are increasingly common
across a range of industries and are revolutionizing them.
- Addressing the Education Emergency @ AHRExpo 2020
Never Stop Learning
- Wireless Inside Out
Wireless connection to the Internet is among the top three most
important factors for tenants who are searching for office space.
- Bringing Together Diverse Devices
We understand that building data is our future, but the myriad of
diverse devices all speak different dialects of an undocumented
language.
- Sharing Data, Work-Space, Interaction & Integration
Do we really want to own our workspace? Or do we want to match our
workspace to our daily location, purpose and resource base?
- Building Data
How will we capture and harness the power of the immense amount of data
generated by smart buildings?
- Smart Buildings for the Smart City
The autonomous smart building is the secret sauce for building a smart
city. Autonomous smart buildings are the strategic chess pieces that
form the foundation of our truly smart cities.
- Building Backbones Are Changing Rapidly
Backbones, our internet communication connections with everything, are under metamorphic change.
- Building User Connection
It’s hard to believe we are now more than 50 chapter in to our ongoing journey!
- Smart City Building
The autonomous smart building is the secret formula for building a smart city.
- Building Backbones
I
wish to start us on a re-education path that will redefine our present
understanding of what the new Building Backbones might be.
- Attraction and Retention of Millennials and Zillennials
Adopting the new Hyper IP-Enabled generation to our workforce is a big
part of the solution to our Education Emergency.
- Recalibrate for 2020 Vision
History of the
past is very important if we want to recalibrate anything—be it a
system or ourselves.
- Becoming the Internet of Things
Most of what
we do not know revolves around our evolving new identities as walking
and talking IoT.
- Building Automation: Propagating our People Power
To grow our industry younger, we need to get our message out that we
are an exciting industry in which young folks can make a difference and
offer them job crafting and promote “job flexibility as a game changer”
to attract them.
- You Do Not Know What You Do Not Know
You know what you know, you know what you do not know, but you do not know what you do not know.
- Building Automation: Connecting Creative Communities
More than ever we need to connect to existing creative communities —
use them to quickly become re-educated while growing younger with new
people.
- Job Crafting Our Industry Ambassadors
Brand
ambassadors are simply people who represent and talk about your company
in a positive way, preferably in front of lots of potential
customers.
- Cybersecurity Solutions
My concern is that in fencing off every risk we will end up the ones
behind the fences—immobilized, paralyzed, victims of our own fears.
- Automation Road Trip
As Willy Nelson would say, I am "on the road again" following a few of my many Communities of Practice.
- Creative Communities
The people and their communities have staying power—the technology does not.
- AI is still a Journey
Disruption is everywhere, and open is on our mind and in our software
and hardware.
- Communities of Practice
The importance of being part of and creating CoPs — Communities of Practice
- Cybersecurity Solutions
My concern is that in fencing off every risk we will end up the ones
behind the fences—immobilized, paralyzed, victims of our own fears.
- Collaborating Around Cybersecurity
Anto Budiardjo and Ken Sinclair Collaborating
- Automated Intelligence With Autonomous Interactions
Our industry is on a journey towards Automated Intelligence and that,
for now, is the AI we are talking about, along with its interlocking
AI, Autonomous Interaction.
- Disrupting Disruption
We need to be the people Doing the Disruption, not the ones just watching and waiting to be Disrupted.
- The Dawn of Disruption
Just back from a kaleidoscope of future peeks into the Dawn of Disruption and its' Emotions @AHREXPO 2019 Atlanta.
- New Year's Resolution: Be Open to Change
"Opening to 2019" is mostly about opening our minds to the edge of change that is upon us.
- The Open Road Is Bumpy, Edgy, but Mindful
As I write this chapter we are planning our Open Road Trip to Atlanta.
- Ken Sinclair,
AutomatedBuildings
- New Year's Resolution: Be Open to Change
"Opening to 2019" is mostly about opening our minds to the edge of
change that is upon us.
- Open
2019
Open 2019 is mostly about opening our minds to the Edge of Change that
is already upon us. - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
- Edge
of Change
We need your input as we are now at the "Edge of
Change" and you are part of this change.
- The "Edge of Change"
"Emotion" is the noun used to describe the creation and depiction of a
mindful interactive relationship — the conversation if you will —
between the inhabitants and their physical building.
- Changing Collaborative Connection Communities
We are all part of several connection communities, but reorganization
our existing ones and the creating our new ones is now foremost on all
our minds.
- Building
Automation: Edge Computing Meets the Maker Movement
Our
November offering speaks to and is a mash up of our digital
transformation.
- Edge-ifcation in the Era of Connection
Together we are starting an interesting, important discussion and – to
one degree or another – participating in the necessary disruption that
is driving that transformation.
- Edge-ifcation Meets Maker Movement
The movement is a contemporary, technology-based subculture that is an
extension of the DIY ( Do It Yourself )
- movement.
- Building Automation Is on a Journey to the Edge
When I cannot find the words to express myself. I create my own. Here
is another one: edge-ification, the process of moving intelligence and
control to the edge.
- Edge-ifcation - Moving the Murky Muddled Middle to the
Edge
It’s the age-old question: centralize or de-centralize? It seems the
new edge generation of technology is answering the question.
- Edge-You-Cation
Learning about our journey
to the Edge
- Building Better Bots for Buildings
Why are we talking about building bots and not building controls?
Because the building automation industry is rapidly becoming the ears,
eyes, arms, voice, and legs that are sensing, listening, seeing, and
carrying out the commands of self-learning and AI thought bots.
- Open Software, Open Hardware, and Open Minds
I scare myself several times a day, every day, learning all that I can
while trying to keep an open mind.
- Building Whisperers Aid Digital Transformation of
Buildings
What are building whisperers? Those who adopt a sympathetic view of the
motives, needs, and desires of the building's relationship with its
humanistic purpose based on rapidly evolving views and understandings.
- Building Whisperers
People will rely on
voice for more tasks throughout their day because voice removes
friction.
- Building Better Building Bots Mindfully
In our future, all our inputs and outputs will evolve to either be
bots, or be commanded by bots
- Building Emotion at AHR
Expo
The 2019 Show will be held in Atlanta, hosting more than 2,100
exhibitors and attracting crowds of more than 60,000 industry
professionals from every state in America and 165 countries
worldwide. The Show provides a unique forum for the entire HVACR
industry to come together and share new products, technologies, and
ideas.
- Edge-Bots That Will Learn Emotion
It was great to get feedback on the excitement of the potential mash-up
of a fixed physical asset and its emotional contents creating the new
identity Building Emotion.
- Building Emotion Connects the Physical, Virtual, and
Emotional Worlds
- A new virtual medium to purportedly
communicate between the dead inanimate building and living humans.
- Building an Awesome UX
UX means “user
experience” and refers to a person's emotions and attitudes about using
a service.
- Building
Emotion
"Emotion"
is the noun used to describe the creation and depiction of a mindful
interactive relationship - the conversation, if you will - between the
inhabitants and their physical building.
- Seeking stackable semantics
When something is very difficult to find it is like looking for a
needle in a haystack. Essentially because the area you have to search
is too large and the size of what you are looking for is very
small.
- Building an awesome UX
Whether you view
“building”
as a noun or a verb, we as an industry need to create Awesome User
Experiences.
- Humanistic Digital Inclusion
We need to use all our new found digital technologies to help us "look,
listen, feel, and think before reacting" creating anticipatory
humanistic buildings.
- Creating empathic people-centric buildings
When you start down a new road you see everything differently.
- Humanistic Digital Inclusion
Look, Listen,
Feel and Think before Reacting.
- Meta-Morphing Mashup
I believe that this mashup and new meta-morphing thinking will
evolutionize how other industries will connect their standards, and
open movements, and expose them to the power of AI.
- Want IT Virtually Visible? Tag IT!
Tagging IT is now mandatory or "IT" will virtually disappear as fast as
created.
- Talking Transparency & Creating a Digital Twin
As part of our never-ending transformation, we need to talk about
transparency, which implies openness, communication, and
- accountability, operating in a way
that thoughts, feelings, or motives
are easily perceived, and it is easy for others to see what actions are
performed.
- Transparency and Digital Twin is the New Deal
The New Deal white
paper from CABA is based on three tenets: Open Standards, Digital
Twin, Service Transparency -
- Building Brains
: The Building IoT Is Transforming
Buildings
- Transparency Transformation
As
part of our never-ending transformation, we need to talk about
Transparency which implies openness, communication, and accountability.
- Metamorphosing Me
“Reverse mentors” is a concept that has become more formalized as the
benefits of learning from a younger generation have become more
apparent.
- Creating the Voice of IoT
This column speaks about creating a voice for that face with a new
breed of Voice Services aimed at evolving devices.
- The Face of Digital Transformation 2018
We are all involved in today's digital transformation and have an
amazing opportunity to create a new softer mindfulness face for the
greater good.
- Building
Brains
AI
Is the Brain, IoT the Body speaking with the Face and Voice of Digital
Transformation.
- The face of digital transformation for 2018
The mask represents a material metaphor for carving our existing
digitalized world into a shape never before seen, in a process that
blurs the lines between science and art but inside that transformation
is yet another amazing transformation opportunity to create a better
image of ourselves.
- Teaching the IoT Monster to ride a bike
The Octopus looks a lot like the IoT monster we are all wrestling with:
smart, soft, slippery, flexible and able to change form; but to be
useful the beast needs to learn how to ride our existing industries’
bikes, which are old, rigid, hard, and tippy.
- Are You - IoT Ready? #RUIoTReady
As an industry, we need to stop the waste of time in this creation of
them and us, we are all in this together it is not a war, it is a
love-in for “human-centric solutions.”
- Embracing the IoT Journey
Agile Adaptive
Autodidactic Autonomous Accepted Actions - We need to embrace these six
words and make them a part of the IoT journey we all are on.
- Timeline of smart building automation evolution
I created this Timeline of Smart Building Automation Evolution, with
over a hundred events linking thousands of articles depicting our
industry's history and its (sometimes) painfully slow evolution.
- "BAS's
- Inclusive Open Data-driven Reinvention."
Once
we presented the question, this article created itself, the title and
pull quotes all evolved from the quoted thoughts.
- Agile Adapive Autodida
t
ctic Autonomous Accepted Actions
We need to
embrace these six words and make them a part of the IoT journey we all
are on. -
Ken Sinclair,
AutomatedBuildings.com
- People-Powered Transformation
People-powered transformation will occur when and as fast as we allow
it, but only when all the people it touches embrace that coming change.
- People-Powered Transformation
All
of us are engaging in a transformation for the greater good.
People-Powered Transformation will occur when and as fast as we allow
it, but only when all the people it touches embrace that coming
change. - Ken Sinclair,
AutomatedBuildings.com
- The evolution of the Master System Integrator (MSI)
What do Master System Integrators (MSI) do? They make sure all systems
communicate properly, they collaborate with building owners to ensure
systems information will be accessible and usable, and they develop
software layers responsible for integration, aggregation, and
communication of the building systems.
- Getting There From Here
This "Getting There from Here" discussion deals with the shift in
thinking and action that we all must make to deal with the rapid change
that is upon us.
- Autonomous actions on the Intelligent Edge
Intelligent Edge Computing is bringing more power to machine learning
and providing the foundation for a distributed architecture that will
make machine collaboration more prevalent than ever before.
- Getting there from here
: The shift in thought and
action we need to make.
- Autonomous Actions on the Intelligent Edge
Powerful low-cost edge controllers using open source software are
changing the industry landscape. Intelligent Edge Computing changes
machine learning's location, bringing more power with an autonomous
personality even closer to the edge while providing the foundation for
a decentralized architecture creating machine distributed
collaboration.
- Building
Health
Wait, am I using “building” as a noun or a verb? Both! "Building
Health" is a topic that is going to dominate our future. - Ken
Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings
- Streaming Dinosaur Dust
We need to learn how to stream dinosaur dust in our new social
self-learning online environments. The industry's info dumping "the
dinosaur dump" is not working for teaching those new generations that
will become the new us. - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings
- Building Health Can Increase Productivity
"Building health" is a topic that is going to dominate our future and
the activating process of "building health" in our buildings is
something we all need to do, talk about, and share/communicate with our
building occupants, so it becomes the biggest part of the happiness,
satisfaction, and productivity puzzle.
- The
Change
Are we fully sensing the change IoT is bringing to our industry? Maybe
the best way to answer that question is to look at how we are changing
the way we are sensing.
- Bridging the Skill Gap
How do we Find, Train and Retain Our Future Smart Building
Professionals.
- Sensing the Change
"Sensing the Change" is a double entendre, a particular way of wording
that is devised to be understood in two ways, having a double meaning.
- Volttron! (With two Ts)
The
Super Robot defender of the Universe rises to save us all from yet
another annoying acronym.
- The Uberization of Comfort, Satisfaction, and Wellbeing
The fastest growing businesses in the world, such as Uber and Airbnb,
using tools like disintermediation and price transparency, create a
marketing model that brings buyers and sellers together in an
efficient, regulated, and innovative manner.
- The
"Make Me Happy Button"
Claiming our Piece of the Productivity
Puzzle
- Be
the Mentor to Grow BACnet Younger
Only you can grow BACnet
younger. It is your turn to reach out and become the mentor.
- Engaging
Satisfaction and Wellness
Satisfaction and wellness are components
of productivity.
- Productivity
and Satisfaction Deployment
Neither satisfaction or productivity are easy to define and involve
obtaining deep knowledge of each asset’s personal self-esteem,
well-being, stress, innovation level, and contribution to corporate
purpose.
- Our
Assets Are People, Not Technology
If you can hire good people, train them well, and ensure they continue,
throughout their career, to learn, we will see industry, from the
operators to the engineers, achieve the potential we all know is there.
- The
IoT Future of Building Automation
IoT changes everything, embedding in our future
the ability to hostel
the people that fuel function, purpose, productivity, and innovation.
- Open
Edge Software Fuels Self-Learning Operability
- Truly open edge software provides access to all data which fuels
self-learning and enables unbridled creation for the new breed of
makers that will marry our industry and IoT.
- Opportunities
for a Better BACnet
There is a definite parallel to be drawn with the DDC revolution, but
Building IoT (internet of things) or BIoT has the chance to be even
more pervasive as it will cut across ALL industries.
- When
Evolution Turns to Revolution
With
an empowered population participating in the
self-learning edge device maker culture, the movement has the feel of a
revolution.
- The
Self Learning Edge Revolution
In the future programing will become less significant or not at all and
edge controllers will just simply learn what to do.
- Low
Cost Powerful Hybrid Edge Controllers
One affordable, flexible device that can serve as either a global
controller or a field DDC will go a long way to better HVAC system
designs.
- Performance
Software is Evolving Rapidly with Machine Self Learning
Smart building control systems are on the cusp of utilizing these
technologies to reduce operating cost and provide significant value to
building owners, property management, and building engineers.
- New
Measured Variables: Health, Well-being, And Productivity
Creating value in the $300 part of the “3-30-300” rule
- Our
Open IoT-centric Future
We just returned from Lightfair and
the CABA Intelligent
Buildings & Digital Home Forum. Both events were great eye openers
depicting our need to adapt to our open IoT-centric future now.
- IoT/Smart
Building Super Collider
Transforming and opening the industry is a journey, not a destination,
and will require consistent and constant attention.
- Project-Haystack
Open for Mashing
“This
new digital publication welcomes existing and future Project-Haystack
members with news, background media, tutorials and resource links.”
- Building
Internet of Things
: Making It Mashable
- Our
Role in the Transformation of Building Automation
It is not the amazing IoT technological changes that are the focus of
our discussions; it is how we as an industry of self-learning assets
embrace and connect these changes.
- AHR
Expo 2016 Preview
Our education theme for this year's AHR
Expo is “Transformational Change for Building Automation.”
- Collecting,
Clarifying, Quantifying, and Qualifying Connections
I would
like all our readers to join in helping us build "Our Connection
Collection"
- “Who is (the future of) BACnet?”
You are the future of BACnet, and you have been preparing your child
for this day to meet the new world. You now need to allow your creation
to go and grow.
- Satisfaction
+ Well Being = Productivity
There is a lot to absorb in this new way of thinking to make the needed
transformational change in our industry but, if we can achieve and
document satisfaction and wellbeing and their respective connection to
productivity, we will create a new value proposition and a new industry
based on our traditional skill set.
- Change
Evolves from the Definition of the Possible
We need to focus
on making change a priority. Please help me on this crusade.
- Transformational
Change
: Our Mission Possible
- A Road
Map of the Possible for Connected Buildings
We all need to find our own reality as building owners, consultants,
and integrators to implement all the virtual greatness being depicted.
- Back
From The Stack
Haystack Connect And Big Data
- Becoming
an Autodidactic Asset
The process of coming to be a
self-taught person who is a valuable thing.
- Attracting
Self-Learning Assets
Our online presences often do not
attract the desired autodidactic assets or possibly not our potential
clients either.
- Creating
Self-Learning Cultures
How do we create them? How do we use them to increase the value of our
only assets — our people?
- Building
Automation Industry Depends On Attracting New Talent
People
are our only
asset.
- 2015
AHRExpo Show Daily Columns
Days 1 & 2 January 26 - 27, Chicago
- Building
Automation Focus for 2015
Needs to be Autodidactism or
Self-Education
- The
Answer To Education And Training
Creating Your Collaboration
- Understanding
The Impact Of The Internet Of Things
:
The "I of Me"
- Automated
Diagnostics And Analytics
How better to start building bridges to the “C” suite than with
Automated Diagnostics & Analytics and the dream that in the future
this will include the analytics of the measured variable of people
productivity which is likely to somehow fall out of social media
analytics.
- Education
for your vocation
We all need to keep at the task of
self-education to keep up with our rapidly evolving industry.
- Education
for Your Vocation
The Task of Self-education - Ken
Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
- Working
together, separately
The core of all powerful web services is providing the ability for us
to work together for free or at a very low cost in the cloud, but this
all happens with separate individuals building these services.
- Cloud
Enables Automation Players to Work Together, Separately
The
cloud enables us to “Work Together” while flexing our greatest
resource, our people, a group of individuals that separately create
pieces that fit the cloud puzzle.
- You
and Your Collaboratory Creating Open Cloud Services
"pay
attention
to the mistakes of the past and the minds of
the future."
- Our
Assets R U
Your understanding of where on the adoption curve the technology around
you and part of you is provides the value you bring to your company and
our industry.
- Focus
on People to Advance Technology
My
observation is that your understanding of where on the adoption curve
the technology around you and part of you is provides the value you
bring to your company and our industry.
- Our
Industry’s
Collaboratory attending IBcon Vegas 2014
This is a powerful
combination, today’s knowledge with yesterday’s experience.
- A
Resource for the Internet of Things (IOT) for
Automated Buildings
as published by Facilities
Management
- 15
years in the Collaboratory
It
has been a labour of love providing you a new way to explore
AutomatedBuildings.com. While we wallowed in the memories of the last
15 years it reminded Jane and I that this is not our story but the
story of industry giants helping us create an online collaboratory of
their powerful thoughts.
- “ Open
Cloud
” allows us to mix and match web services
- Ownership
of the
Collaboratory and its Security
One clear component of every successful energy integration project was
a team of champions who asserted ownership of the projects
collaboratory.
- Collaborating
Mobile and Leveraging the Cloud
Mobile Collaboration that leverages the power of the cloud, coupled
with Bring Your Own Device “BYOD” is our newest do all power tool.
- The
Power of Concurrency and Collaboration in the Cloud
The
strength of this approach is that these concurrent
paths keep
evolving and becoming stronger increasing our collaborated strengths.
- Collaborating
Convergence and the Changing Industry
This December column is about “Collaborating Convergence” or as I like
to joke “The Gear Heads meet the C-suite”…..smile. I think we all have
accepted that the convergence model is inevitable, but I am not sure we
understood how much we all would have to collaborate to insure
successful convergence.
- How
Our Future is Delivering Disruption
Delivering Disruption seems like an unlikely topic to speak to but it
is exactly the business we all are in today as we provide new solutions
that leap over and significantly change our existing marketplace.
- Build
Bridges not
Fences
We need to change rapidly from building proprietary fences
around our projects to providing connection bridges to the Internet of
Everything (IoE).
- The
Journey To Achieve “Automatically Smart”
To achieve it we
must start to think differently now.
- Who R
We? or Annoying Acronyms R Us
It may be
not
so much Who R We? as what do we call ourselves?
- Building
Data Delivery
Whether you use Building as a noun or a verb it is now all about
Building Data Delivery.
- Data
Models Alter Industry Dynamics
It is a brave new world forming fast in the cloud and standard data
models allow the feedstock for the cloud to be automatically
reconfigured for the purpose of the moment.
- Dynamic
Data Fuels Deep Analytics
This speaks to the importance the next level of deep analytics of
almost everything will have, and how we as an industry will provide a
new, level of deeper analytics connecting inquiring minds to almost
everything with low cost real-time data.
- Events
Evolve Everyone
Conferences
and trade shows fill an important need for any industry.
They provide a place for practitioners and vendors to come together to
learn, network, test market acceptance of new ideas and products, and
move the industry forward.
- The
Dawn of Database
Data as a Service (DAAS) is a new concept
for most of us and we need to better understand these new tools.
- Humanizing Your Cloud
Your cloud provides a lofty anywhere, any device, view of you and your
corporate’s connected services.
- Wishing
you a Happy New “Era”
We are rapidly entering a new Era in building automation that questions
all we have done before.
- Controls
Goals:
Collecting Connection Communities
- Industries’
Connection Communities Blur
How does your product or service connect to everything in our online
world? Which Connection Communities is it part of?
- The
Lighting Community
This column title plays on both the noun lighting and verb lighting to
provide two different meanings. Which way did you read it? As the
community of folks who provide lighting control? Or the action word for
our job to provide lighting to several communities? Yes we are going to
talk about both, but first.
- Connecting
Connection Communities
This topic is on my mind because I have been in dialogue with several
in the industry about our event at this year's AHR Expo "Why we need to
be part of several Connection Communities?"
- Defining
Smart Buildings
- a moving target
- Building
for the Future
It is hard for us to imagine what a future building might look like and
how its automation will be configured, it is easier for us as an
industry to get on with the task of future building all our services
and products.
- Cloud
Control and the evolving Cloud Control Languages
"CCL"
- Build
it with
Wireless
Wireless is a ‘now’ movement in the building automation industry that
we all need to better understand. - Control Engineering Asia
- “What
did I see from
the Summit?”
Opening Open! - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
- Convergence
and Collaboration from Cloud Data
The marriage of
social media as data and its
embedded human opinion will seamlessly mesh with real time data,
shoulder to shoulder in large databases in a concept now being billed
as Big Data or Data as a Service “DaaS”.
- Interacting
with Energy
Our daily interaction manipulating energy must be done with a lot of
personal energy, but now involves interaction with our energy source
the smart grid.
- Building
Communities
Open Connection Communities are set to shape the future of the building
automation industry.
- A
Wireless World
Wireless is a “now” movement in our industry that we all need to better
understand.
- Open
Connection Communities
My overall takeaway from AHR Expo
2012, Chicago...
- The
Value of Virtual
What do you think "open"
means? What do you think "visible" means?
- Connecting
Communities for Continuous Conservation
Visualization
through graphics can allow buildings to become an integral part of a
community and “Come to Life” while teaching occupants about
sustainability.
- Greenmation?
GreenBuild’s theme of "automation"
- What
"Open" might mean
One piece of
the larger open puzzle is the present restrictions around proprietary
control languages.
- Are we “Open” for
Business?
Refers
to how important being open has become to our industry and how it has
helped us grow and
become part of something much larger.
- The
New Visibility & Interactions in the
Building Automation Industry
What changes in the last few years have led
to the “New Visibility
& Interactions in the Building Automation Industry”?
- Embracing
Change
Are we embracing the necessary changes enthusiastically and fast enough
to keep control of our industry?
- “
The
Past and
Future of Control Languages
”
A call to the industry to speed their
evolution to open protocol for control languages
- Creating
Interactions in Building Automation
We must "Create
Interactions" worthy of our visibility and strive to
better understand how to interact with the powerful presentations of
our information.
- I
n and
Out of the Cloud
Should data be in or
out of the cloud?
- Cloud
Control of
Energy and Building Data
The
use of cloud computing for the collection, management and analysis
of real time and historical building data is now becoming a valuable
possibility.
- Making
the Invisible Visible
Our powerful
far reaching
real time network connections
transport the invisible via the internet cloud but it is the graphics
and their dashboards representations that convert the Invisible to
Visible.
- Building Automation Moves Up
Up
in the clouds and ever-increasing connectivity
Control Engineering Asia
- Does
Owning the Meters Make You Smarter?
Only if you
do smart things with them. If we own the smart meter or collection of
sub-meters we no longer need to deal with other people politics.
- Integrated
connected (IC) virtualization
Through integrated connected virtualization, the world of large
buildings will soon view everything connected differently.
- Building
Grid Connectivity
Building Connectivity is our future.
- Takeaways from ConnectivityWeek 2010
ConnectivityWeek was a great event - with the largest ever registration
of over 1300. Many new grid partners created an increased impact with
new energy solutions while showing us improved overall organization and
connectivity of our industry.
- Preview
of May 24-27 ConnectivityWeek 2010 Santa Clara
Lots of excitement surrounding the
buildup to ConnectivityWeek
and I have tried to capture and connect you to the points of interest
for our industry.
- Building
Connections – ConnectivityWeek
This
is the place to gain insight into how to unleash opportunities and new
business from all of this change
- The next
big things:
how building
automation will change complex
installations and commissioning
- The Next Big Things
This dynamic duo will eliminate
complex installations, provide; self set up, connection, and
commissioning while self populating the needed information for web
deployment.
- 2010
to be the year of the smart building app
Because of
the evolving reach and complexities of building automation, these
solutions need to be several services, not one all-encompassing
service.
- Twenty
Ten to be a BAD-ASS Year
At
events like AHR Expo we get to test to see if the implied sameness of
our content has legs or is becoming reality.
- Our
Clouded Future is Bright
Our clouded future includes new
virtual connections to our buildings from the communities they are part
of with both physical and social interactions.
- Free
Educational Sessions January - Orlando
"Building Automation and the Cloud"
- Measure,
Map & Manage
We
Measure and sense almost every piece of building information,
then Map
to graphical r
epresentations to develop strategies for
M
anaging
from anywhere, anytime.
- Building
Transformation
Green has becomes a
questionable color, the new true blue of an economical plus
environmental
bottom line supported with real dynamic data, presented virtually,
anywhere, is the proof of our transformation.
- The
Cloud Beyond the Network
As
more software and computer services move off-site, a look around
suggests that the collaborative power of cloud computing has already
begun to reign for those looking to harness real-time building
information most efficiently.
Ken
Sinclair Editor/Owner, www.AutomatedBuildings.com
- Keeping
our Feet on the Ground While Working in the Cloud
"If we want to
continue to be leaders in this industry, we must deliver the
goods
today, Tomorrow is not good enough."
Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner,
www.AutomatedBuildings.com
- Building Cloud
Connections
The identification
and use of these valuable industry cloud connectors is essential to
propel our industry forward at warp speed so it can radically change to
survive.
- My
Clouded Thinking Clears
The clouds are open and scalable
and are my new tool set.
- My
Takeaways from ConnectivityWeek
After each year's event I try to list my
takeaways of the things that significantly impacted, impressed me and
are likely to change my future.
- The
Power of the People
The power of the people lies not
just in how we innovate, but also how we are able to share knowledge
with others through that innovation.
- Building
Automation Networks
This article provides insight to the
evolution to date of Building Automation Networks to Enterprise and Web
based networks and on into cloud computing.
- The Reinvention
Convention
On
June 9, 2009, I will be in Santa Clara, California over seeing the
presentation
of several sessions on “The
Reinvention of Building Automation”.
- The
Reinvention of Building Automation
The complexities of our industry reside with us, but the reinvention
and representation of our future resides with the new teams we build.
- Mastering
middleware for sustainability
When you know how
much energy you use, it’s much easier to determine where savings can be
achieved.
- The Reinvention
of Building Automation (BA)
Building Automation
is evolving to a web service that is greatly enhanced with online
services.
- Building
Automation Sustainability
Whether you view the
word “Building” as a noun or a verb the real goal is Sustainability
- Top
12 Issue Favourites - 2008
We thank
you all as an industry for being our success in providing incredibly
current content that is well read by our reinvented industry.
- Grid
Interoperability
Demand response is an important tool
in your energy management toolkit. But the future it anticipates could
be of even greater benefit to your bottom line.
- Demand
response: turning on to new opportunities
The next frontier for demand
response is to move beyond curtailment and leverage the power of
building automation systems that exist within or across collections of
buildings.
- Reaping
the Harvest
Daylight harvesting and daylighting controls
can make a big difference in your energy bill. And solutions are
becoming more flexible all the time.
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