
Anything that can interrupt that can cause problems early on. And this is another piece too, where now being on the construction side of things, scope and budget alignment and cost is key and essential to the success of any project. The lack of clear data standards, without that, a lot of challenges can appear and these can impact project scope and budget. Again, looking for those, those keywords that lead to validity in those standards. If you were to go back to the list that I had earlier in my recommendations for going out and searching and finding all that information, the same applies here. And that’s where we’re going here with the data standard and semantic tagging. The reason you can point to a web browser at someone else’s website and see what they have to say is that they’ve all agreed upon how website data should be marked up or tagged. I think we take this for granted with when we go out to websites and web browsers and that industry. And it’s to study the meaning of language, which again goes back to that idea of open protocols and being able to talk to each other. And the definition of semantics, I had to go back and really look and read about what that definition was. We actually have an interesting discussion on the selling of semantic while we were preparing for this. And so open protocols are absolutely essential in the operation of smart building.ĭata standards and semantics tagging. Simply put, if you populate a building with the equipment that uses incompatible protocols, then you’re going to have a building that can’t communicate and ultimately functionally meet the goals. And so open protocols allow all of these to talk together so that we can actually build this tower and we can actually have these project successes. There are many different languages and players when it comes to smart buildings. For these buildings and these systems to operate, all the parts need to communicate with the rest of the parts and all the smart components need to be linked in communication with the monitoring dashboards and everything that give the managers and the people operating the buildings the visibility and control.Ī lot like in the story of the Tower of Babel. Building automation and smart buildings now is a lot like that. You probably know the story of Babel, where that people tried to build a structure that would reach up to the heavens, but since they all spoke different languages, they were unable to functionally communicate and eventually, the project failed. The first building block that we were looking at is to have to do with protocols. When we say this, the building blocks are not necessarily meant to be steps or checklists or things to go through, but really the foundations of where to begin or what to know or what to understand and things to be considered. Let’s discuss building blocks of a smart building. This transcript is from a May 2020 webcast and has been edited for clarity.

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