Buildings Magazine - August

New applications and smarter setup strategies make Io T struggles a thing of the past

However, building automation isn’t a replacement for a facilities manager’s ability to lead a team or develop smart maintenance strategies. It exists to make your job easier by keeping an eye on performance and pointing out potential issues that would be difficult (and in some cases, impossible) to detect with conventional hands-on management.

“There’s the financial benefit of reducing utility spending and equipment costs, and there’s also a productivity or behavioral benefit to Io T devices,” explains Logan Soya, Founder and CEO of Aquicore, an asset management software platform. “You can enable your building staff to have more context for what’s going on and they can act more quickly and

What’s Keeping You from Implementing

What’s holding you back from installing Internet of Things (Io T) devices in your facility? For many facilities managers, Io T’s wide spectrum of possibilities is
precisely the problem. It can be tough to know where
to start with smart building technology when there
are Io T applications for nearly every building system.

Facilities managers who haven’t invested yet also may fear being replaced by automation, notes Joe Herbst, Vice President of Controls for Revolution Lighting Technologies. That concern isn’t entirely unfounded – a 2017 report from McKinsey Global Institute predicted automation could eliminate as many as 73 million U.S. jobs by 2030.