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 [...]
In this episode of InSite Coast to Coast, Lauren and Aaron focus on the effects the environment has on the health and business operations of buildings (and their occupants). They discuss how smart, IoT and analytics technologies are being used to defend buildings from the harshest of nature's offerings, while simultaneously helping the building and whatever is going on inside it operate more efficiently. They [...]
I was one of the 184,000 people who went to CES in Las Vegas earlier this month to see the latest and greatest in consumer technologies. While the biggest names in tech prepared to unveil their new innovations inside the convention centers and ballrooms across the city, the biggest surprise came courtesy of Mother Nature. Rain. In Las Vegas. They say, “it never rains in [...]
In this episode of InSite Coast to Coast, Lauren and Aaron recap their visit to the 2018 International Consumer Electronics Show (also known as CES) in Las Vegas, NV. They discuss some of their favorite sights, gadgets and happenings from the show, as well as what IoT (a major trend at this year's CES) means for the future of smart buildings & cities. They also [...]
