BAS have changed a lot in recent years – they are more digital, more automated, more networked and more complicated. What hasn’t changed is that when something goes wrong it needs to be fixed yesterday. That means knowing who is responsible for responding to the...
Increasingly, facilities departments in today’s commercial buildings are being asked to do more with less. Faced with shrinking budgets, facility managers must find ways to drive performance improvements without driving up costs. This often puts large-scale retrofits...
Winter is coming. Now is the ideal time to prepare and optimize you building systems for the dropping temperatures and harsh conditions. This winterization checklist prioritizes actions you can take now take to help keep your critical building systems performing...
Moving OT Systems to a Dedicated Private Cloud: Your Private Cloud Services Checklist There’s a strong case to be made for isolating Operational Technology (OT) from the IT network, by migrating it to a secure, dedicated private cloud environment. By moving OT to a...
What Windows 10 End of Life Means for BAS Teams Windows 10 will reach its end-of-life (EOL) date this week. If your building automation system runs on Windows 10 its time to update. Microsoft will not provide security or feature updates. Newly discovered...
Building automation system cybersecurity can’t wait October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It’s a good time to ask: “Is my BAS cybersecure?” Hackers set their sights on the BAS for a variety of reasons. Some want to find a backdoor into IT computing...
