February, 2019 Newsletter - Current Status of Cyber Security in the BAS Industry, Commissioning Project with Analytika, New BACnet Explorer and more…

Current Status of Cyber Security in the BAS Industry

Here are the Audio Stream and Slides from the second Free Webinar of the 2019 Smart Buildings Series. This webinar was on the State of BAS Cybersecurity with Cimetrics president Jim Lee. 

Building analytics then and now

An interesting article from our analyst Julianne Rhoads about her experience with Continuous Commissioning in Peru when she was pursuing a master’s degree in solar energy engineering and what she is doing now.

Fault detection and root cause analysis of big data provide a strategic approach to energy savings at high-performance healthcare, pharmaceutical, and university laboratory buildings. Insidious HVAC faults are often superseded by reactive maintenance. By analyzing building data, large scale operational issues can be mitigated, and persistent alarms can be minimized. The economic impact associated with these issues can be used to quantify building performance improvement potential. Read more  

Commissioning Project with Cimetrics Analytika

The new issue of Currents – the energy conservation newsletter for Jefferson Health, outlines the Building Continuous Commissioning Project that began in 2013. Jefferson selected a team of recognized experts in continuous commissioning for the project including Cimetrics Analytika.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc, branded as Jefferson Health, is a regional health system whose flagship hospital is Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Center City, Philadelphia. The health system’s hospitals serve as the teaching hospitals of Thomas Jefferson University.

The total energy spend for Jefferson is now more than $40 Million per year. The challenge – how to manage this for maximum savings. That’s where continuous commissioning comes into play. Read More.

Product Spotlight

New BACnet Explorer 
Our free BACnet Explorer allows you to easily discover devices and their objects and properties on your BACnet network and write to the writable values. Now, with our premium version you can also subscribe to COV notifications and get alerts when values are changed. You can save subscription parameters and load them the next time BACnet Explorer starts.

With a new snapshot feature discover what you need on your BACnet network you can save the results to a file and then open this file at any moment and compare the state of your BACnet network with a saved one. Explorer will show what was changed, (devices/objects or properties) and then you can save the comparison results  to a .csv file with changed values. Learn More

What is new in SecuringBuildings.News

How to improve communication between people and smart buildings

While USC research shows people help smart buildings conserve energy when they dialogue with a computer persona nicknamed Ellie, who represents the building management. 

In a new study, researchers found that subtle changes in design of virtual assistants results in behavioral changes that can help the environment. The researchers found people connect better with a computer-generated avatar that represents building management. They found that social banter between machine and people gets better results. Read More

Industry News

Commercial Building Automation Systems Market 2019-2026: Business Growth, Development Status Along Top Companies like AMAG Technology, Autani LLC, Cimetrics, Comfy, Daintree Networks, Digital Lumens, Gridium, Harman International, Intelligent Buildings LL

The report also provide innovative business strategies, competitive status of other companies which help to grow revenue and latest major and minor changes in technology has mention into report. Technological advancement such as IoT in building automation system, adoption of various protocols of building automation which lead to rise in demand for building automation. Read More

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