With fast approaching energy regulations and increased competitive pressures, reducing energy consumption has never been more important for building managers.

The Ciqada platform consists of fully integrated hardware modules, secure web services, and mobile apps, allowing designers to add internet monitoring and control to new or existing products. 

This panel discussion will cover a broad range of building industry topics and provide perspectives on cybersecurity, advancements in IoT, electric grid connected buildings and the advancements of distributed energy resources, and how interoperability is enabling new solutions and the associated risks.

BACnet is introducing new features that will help facility managers to implement an Internet of Things (IoT) strategy for their facilities. IoT is important to facility managers as devices such as chillers, boilers, lights, fire alarm, security, and elevators come with network smarts onboard to monitor the health, status, and energy consumption through their front end software applications.

Manufacturers are consistently finding new and exciting ways to develop and enhance traditional products per the desires of tech-savvy consumers in both the residential and commercial HVAC segments.

Despite all their differences, consumers share a common interest in connected home technologies.