When Your Building Controls Provider Exits the Market: Your Action Plan

Making the Right Decision for Your Facility It’s every facility manager’s nightmare scenario: your building controls provider just announced they’re shutting down. Your building controls provider has announced they’re exiting the market. Support will end soon, parts will become scarce, and you need a plan. This guide walks you through what happens next and how… Read more When Your Building Controls Provider Exits the Market: Your Action Plan

Why manage two systems separately when they can work better together? Today’s building owners face a common challenge: lighting systems detect when people are present, but HVAC systems often run regardless of occupancy. This disconnect wastes energy and money. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, commercial buildings waste up to 30% of the energy… Read more The Rising Demand for Integrated Building Systems: How Lighting + HVAC Work Together

Be a matchmaker for your business this Valentine’s Day, and introduce your building to its perfect partner. Now, you might think your building could never meet the perfect partner, because it’s too complicated and high-maintenance to put up with. But what if you set up your building with Autani this Valentine’s Day? Magic can still… Read more Be a Matchmaker this Valentine’s Day

One of the problems with New Year’s resolutions is that they’re very hard to keep, but very easy to give up. So if you want a New Year’s resolution that lasts, well what you could use is a decision that you only have to make once, before sitting back to reap the benefits without lifting… Read more How to make New Year’s resolutions that last

Bluetooth Special Interests Group announced this year that their Low Energy technology will now support mesh networking. The new mesh capability enables many-to-many device communication and is optimized for creating large scale networks, which is ideally suited to building automation where you have tens, hundreds, or even thousands of devices that need to be securely… Read more Introduction to Bluetooth Mesh

We’ve put together an infographic of quick and easy ways for schools to improve energy efficiency over the winter break. Take a look here.

December has arrived, it’s time to rummage through our garages and attics to find our Christmas decorations. The light intensity of American suburbs increases by 30 to 50% each Black Friday evening as Americans adorn their homes and landscapes with Christmas lights. It’s an annual phenomenon originally reported by NASA. All this extra lighting comes… Read more Wishing it could be Christmas Every Day

Following on from the Cyber Monday rush – the distribution warehouses are in full flow. Take a look at how to maximize returns and create an energy efficient warehouse using some simple yet extremely effective smart devices and controls. Click here to see the Infographic.

With the ease and convenience of online shopping, Cyber Monday is poised to vault past Black Friday as people hunt for bargain savings. This year, experts are predicting nearly $4.3 billion dollars will be spent online, the biggest Cyber Monday yet. Behind the largest cyber sellers lie a simple network of warehouses from where each… Read more Now That’s What I Call A Warehouse Deal