The capabilities of the Metasys® building management system (BMS) have been expanded. Now, the Metasys BACnet-enabled field gear has BACnet Testing Laboratories (BTL) certification of interoperability ...

The advent of electromechanical controls in the 1970s, analog controls in the 1980s, direct digital control (DDC) in the 1990s, and complete building control integration in the 2000s has progressively ...

MILWAUKEE — (June 28, 2022) — Johnson Controls, the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, has announced an update to Metasys, the company’s industry-leading Building Automation ...

Historically, building management systems were hardwired, making it challenging to update or modify these systems. The advent of LPWANs has changed the equation to simplify and extend existing systems ...

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 ...

Intelligent networked sensors enable real-time, occupancy-based energy consumption to reduce waste in lighting, climate control and other systems. As companies pursue sustainability strategies, ...

Infogrid, a startup that uses AI to collect and analyze data on things like air quality, occupancy and energy consumption, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series B round led by ...

Facilities managers are learning how to sort through and leverage building systems data as they lean into digitalization, ...

Steel sheet piles have more than a century-long history of being used to support excavations for buried structures (Figure 1). During the construction process, the sheet piles traditionally provide ...