The following is a guest post from Damian Skelton, area vice president at Medxcel Facilities Management. The building automation system (BAS) is the primary backbone for energy savings in a hospital.

Building automation systems succeed or fail based on how well they are understood, integrated, commissioned, and operated as a whole. Performance outcomes are determined less by individual components ...

Leaders of businesses large and small are asking their teams to start automating their processes and workflows. The question is, where to start? A collection of tools and processes that are the basis ...

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 ...

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 ...

systems. The scalable Sitara processor portfolio offers an opportunity to build a platform solution that also spans beyond Building Control Systems. Commercial buildings contribute to 40 percent of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...