In this episode of InSite Coast to Coast, Lauren and Aaron celebrate the 15th episode by concentrating on the 15 ways to make a building a winning athlete. From attention to systems, the building's pit crew, and the entire guest experience, the highlights of a healthy and champion building are counted down. This episode is just in time for the HITEC hospitality conference in Houston, [...]
In this episode of InSite Coast to Coast, Lauren and Aaron talk about occupant comfort and how it's related to the rise of mixed-use commercial real estate - an increasing phenomenon happening across the nation! From offsetting costs and increasing a sense of community within universities to personalized comfort apps and other technology to tie people into a building, the face of commercial real estate [...]
There’s a lot of hype about smart buildings, but what does “smart” really mean? According to Webster, “smart” is: “having or showing a quick-witted intelligence.” Does a building that meets this definition exist today? Perhaps in controlled lab environments or computer simulations. But, in the real world, certainly not... yet. Why? Simple. For a building to be smart—to have “quick-witted intelligence”—it needs data; not just [...]
In this Memorial Day inspired episode of InSite Coast to Coast, Lauren and Aaron pay tribute to a few of the technological milestones that changed buildings forever and discuss what building technology should be looking to accomplish in the years ahead. They note that understanding, analyzing and improving a building's performance (with the help of building performance data) is the bridge to the advancement of [...]
In this episode of InSite Coast to Coast, Lauren and Aaron welcome special guest Dr. Filip Ponulak, Site 1001's Director of Data Science, to the show and chat about the company's new tech hub opening in Southern California -- home to the growing smart cities’ data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence teams. If you're interested in joining, check out available positions on www.site1001.com/careers. [...]
Most often when people are asked what they like to do, they don’t answer along the same lines of what they do for work. Yet the saying goes, “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” We don’t always get to brag about our employees but when a Site 1001 machine learning engineer surpassed over 4,500 teams in a Jigsaw [...]
In this episode of InSite Coast to Coast, Lauren and Aaron chat about how today's buildings are using their systems and operations to not only put money back into themselves through savings but even impacting the activities within them to increase revenue. From trends in gathering and using building data to taking advantage of current tax cuts and manipulating building materials to convince people [...]
In this episode of InSite Coast to Coast, Lauren and Aaron some of the sights and sounds from last week's visit to the 2018 Smart Cities Connect Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. During their visit, they found a connection between sustainability and (better) building operations, including how both require the same technologies to achieve their desired result. The combination of machine learning, advanced analytics [...]
In this episode of InSite Coast to Coast, Lauren and Aaron discuss a few of the ways smart technologies are improving health. From real-time monitoring and deep learning diagnosing diseases, to AI-powered cancer-killing robots, the applications of smart tech in the world of human health is nothing short of wondrous! The Coast to Coast team also noticed how the same smart tech concepts being [...]
This week was National Institute of Standards and Technology's annual Global City Teams Challenge (known as NIST’s GCTC) and, for the first time, it was co-hosted with Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate as the Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (known as DHS’ SC3). Much more than a mouthful, this Washington, DC gathering was where theories and policies for smart cities [...]
