Establishing a Smart Building Industry Standard

<p>The term &ldquo;Smart Building&rdquo; has been in use since at least the 1990s, coined to reference something &ldquo;more&rdquo; than just automation. It emerged from the &ldquo;Smart&rdquo; lexicon &mdash; smartphone, smart home, smart grid, smart cities &mdash; invoked when a product is more 4th Industrial Revolution than 1st.</p> <p>Our industry &mdash; automation &mdash; was conceived of this 1st Industrial Revolution legacy. The basic control loop, typified by the mercury switch thermostat, still lives on as an emblem of the ingenuity of this early 19th-century paradigm shift. In fact, the senior statesmen of our industry &mdash; Honeywell, Siemens, Johnson, and Schneider &mdash; were all born out of this early era.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/passivelogic/establishing-a-smart-building-industry-standard-d2ac0cdc3b0b"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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