In commercial buildings, electronics often operate out of sight: in luminaires, control units, and technical building systems ...

In building automation, the user interface often determines how quickly an operator can understand system performance or respond to an alarm. While controllers, networks, and protocols get most of the ...

Chris Lane is the Director of Product Management for Building Automation System (BAS) products at Johnson Controls. In this role, Lane leads a team of product managers responsible for defining the ...

Small- to medium-sized buildings — usually considered to be under 50,000 square feet — make up about 94% of all commercial buildings in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information ...

A robot-ready warehouse needs a building shell designed around the automation from the start, with the column grid, clear ...

The maturation of communications technologies and the expansion of industry standards relating to cabling systems and protocols have made facilities and IT managers hungry for a single cabling system ...

For a lot of small and mid-sized businesses, the infrastructure component of automation can be a significant challenge. With most of these organisations lacking the capacity to build and manage their ...