Smart Districts & Cities
How can buildings share data across a district?
How buildings share data with a district through an information contract, a suitable technical pattern and a written agreement.
Insights
Practical guidance for owners, designers and operators working on connected, efficient and digitally ready buildings and developments.
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Smart Buildings
How can smart buildings improve accessibility and occupant experience?
How smart building services can make arrival, wayfinding and help easier, while keeping non-digital alternatives.
Cybersecurity & Resilience
What is the difference between IT and OT cybersecurity?
How IT and OT cybersecurity differ in priorities and practice, and how to divide responsibilities between teams.
COBie & Digital Handover
What should a digital building handover include?
What a digital handover must include for connected systems, how to demonstrate it works and how to contract it.
Data Integration & Ontologies
How do you integrate legacy building systems into one data platform?
A six-step method for connecting legacy building systems to one data platform without destabilising them.
Operations & Productivity
How can a hotel integrate PMS, guest room controls and maintenance systems?
How a hotel connects its PMS, guest-room controls and maintenance system through an agreed interface schedule and tests.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What makes a building AI-ready?
Four tests of AI readiness for a building and a six-step assessment for one priority use case.
Operations & Productivity
How do you calculate labour savings from building automation?
How to calculate net time released by building automation task by task, and when it can count as a cost saving.
Smart Buildings
What is the difference between BACnet, KNX, Modbus and MQTT?
How BACnet, KNX, Modbus and MQTT differ, where each is used and what to specify beyond the protocol name.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
How is an AI data centre different from a traditional data centre?
How facilities for accelerated computing differ from conventional data centres in density, network, layout and failure behaviour.
Data Centres & AI Infrastructure
What is the difference between Tier I, II, III and IV data centres?
What Uptime Institute Tiers I to IV describe, what they do not guarantee and how to verify a design or provider's claim.
Operations & Productivity
How can building alarms automatically generate maintenance work orders?
How building alarms can raise maintenance work orders automatically, and the policy rules to set before integrating.
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