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What are ontologies, and what are they good for? What does semantic interoperability mean and what is the business purpose of standardization? 

Is the real estate industry behind Industrial ways of working? Or actually, better positioned for the future thanks to a solid foundation in BACnet (where applicable)? 

What is Brick schema, Haystack Tagging, Real Estate Core, Google Buildings Ontology, Volttron, Microsoft Data Language, taxonomies, and ontologies in general? And how can we tell them apart and/or use them together?

Who are the unsung heroes of our time? Who’s making the world work behind the scenes? Who are the true pure breeds when it comes to Building Automation Bravado? And why is it important with standardization?

This episode is a true island of reality in an ocean of semantic interoperability and building automation.

These are some of the questions that are being answered in the episode!

Beyond open APIs. Ontologies & Faster time to value creation is out at Anchor and all places where Podcasts live. 

And finally, a big thank you to Joel, Terry, and Erik, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor IDUN Real Estate. Idun ProptechOS the Operating System for property owners, used and supported by Microsoft Azure and some of the World’s largest property developers.

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What is it that Proptech is missing? What does the future of Smart Buildings look like? What is the alignment between Rate of Innovation and Return on Investment?

“…If I build you a BI dashboard, I shouldn't have to explain to you what's on it …

What is the mindset that is needed to drive change and get things going in the real estate industry? We learned about the importance of having a foundation of Connectivity in the last phenomenal episode with Joe Gaspardone.

But, when you have the Foundation of Connectivity, what then? What happens with all the data? How to make sense of it in a modern way that is replicable, scalable, and as future-proof as can be? That’s what you will find out in this episode!

“We have a strange business model that we try to replace our own services.“

To say that Jeremy Richmond has been all over the Real Estate Industry is probably an understatement. He is now the director of business development for DB engineering, where DB Engineering is a smart building consulting firm that specializes in delivering value from data to end clients. We get to listen to Jeremy telling us his origin story of having joined the Navy at an early age and fixed everything that moved and had a wire to it.

This is an extraordinary podcast episode where we get to understand how Jeremy helps portfolio owners go from quick wins to operational excellence at scale. It continues from where we left off in the last episode and moves into the operational side of ontologies. And how real-estate stakeholders can create value in a sustainable way.

This episode is definitely one that you can’t miss and it will accelerate and/or validate your knowledge on where the future is heading for everyone!

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Smart Building Foundations – Enterprise Level Connectivity, the role of Visual Twins, scaling up, and how to get started, get going and succeed in the real estate industry.

“As long as connectivity is solved, compute power is not the issue."  was what Industrial IoT Expert Sastry Malladi said in the last episode.

Well guess what, this is something that Joe Gaspardone and his team at Montgomery Technologies have solved, for everyone!

Robust, Useful, and Attractive. That’s not only descriptive of most industry professionals working with building automation today, but it’s also what this episode is all about!

This episode builds on all of the earlier episodes and it offers tremendous insight into how to build a Smart Building Platform. It is not so much about betting on one standard as it is building platforms and solutions that are interoperable enough to work with any standard in a meaningful way.

We talk about everything from touchless tech, IoT, and the classic sides of building automation. To where the industry is right now, and where it needs to go next, and the importance of understanding industry dynamics at scale.

This and more will be asked and answered in this episode of the Beyond Buildings podcast. Truly an amazing episode that you can’t afford to miss!

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Closing the loop with Edgification strategies at scale. It's 5G, industrial automation, local control first, and a modern data strategy based on decades of experience with Big Data and IoT.

Why is Foghorn not actively promoting Digital Twins even though they are doing a lot of these things today?

In this episode of the Beyond Buildings Podcast, we get to talk to the CTO of Industrial Edge player, Foghorn, and their CTO Sastry Malladi from Silicon Valley in California. Foghorn wants to solve real-world problems because they know that they can. And the IT-gods know that this is something the Beyond Buildings Podcast can rally behind!

Sastry has 30 plus years of technology background, is a passionate entrepreneur, been at big companies, small companies, IBM, Oracle, and eBay working with Cloud computing before that was even a term. It’s edge computing all the way and Foghorn is definitely going places. Sastry shares their journey to Digitalization and describes a phenomenal approach to talking to customers and piloting done right.

We will also get some interesting 5G discussions on what the value is all about and how companies should take the chance to leapfrog into the future. Commercial buildings and data center push, legacy in Oil & Gas, moving towards a product-market fit and scalability aspects. That’s what you will hear in this episode and much more like it.

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This episode is all about understanding important aspects with connectivity, 5G, and what the difference is between the past, present, and future ways of working. And we also get a master-class in how IoT selling from a master at his trade. Are companies building products for humans? Or for machines? Why not both?

In this episode of the Beyond Buildings Podcast, we talk to the Connectivity King Marc Tobal’s amazing journey that is filled with words of wisdom and an understanding of how to sell IoT projects in the connectivity market like few others. His role is to simplify the complexity of IoT for customers as a trusted advisor. What are the key challenges when dealing with connectivity? How do companies get started, get going, and actually succeed with 5G? We get to hear about the difference between the 2G, 3G, and 4G and major differences to 5G and beyond.

This was recorded in September 2020 so there’s a lot of things that have happened since then. Reach out to know more about 5G, 6G, and Beyond!

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What do you think? More experts? Fewer experts? How much should we go into the comfort zone, instead of outside it? This episode discusses the fact that we're specialists in different areas. And if companies are indeed looking to help the customer Marc means that we need to partner up more.

Understanding the existing ways of working in the Building Automation Integration space when it comes to past, present, and future lock-in effects and switching costs. And everything else in between.

With a background in the Smart Building integration industry going back decades, Rusty Hennessey has a lot of wisdom to share. And when Rusty says that he’s waking up every day, just excited about what he does, it’s destined for a great episode! This is an episode that zooms in and out to the world of building automation, focusing on Smart Building Integration. Rusty starts off by talking about the amazing people he gets to work with, and that his job is all about testing out new technology to deliver the best solutions for customers. It’s important to show the value, and that change is not something for everyone.

We get to understand more of why there’s such a slow technology adoption in the industry, and discussions around what needs to happen. We talk about technology trends, security, interoperability, what Digital Twins and AI will do for the industry, and also who’s leading the charge right now. We talk about the similarities and differences between the PC industry and that of Building Automation.

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Is it possible to let people work within their silo, where the data is part of a larger context with information that will stay with the building over time? And this episode made it even clearer that it might be easier and better to go with existing buildings instead of new buildings. Why is that? Do you agree or disagree?

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Hardball questions to a former softball player that worked hard in achieving long-life goals from 10 years of age. Having seen the spaghetti junction in Atlanta, saying, “I want to build that when I grow up” Jennifer is now out there, realizing her dream of building the future for all of us!

This is an episode where passion shines through and it’s inspiring to hear that Jennifer really wants the construction industry to succeed with 3D-printing. Simply due to the fact that there are so many avenues of innovation. We talk about different use cases, what’s holding the industry back, and some interesting truths about the Construction Industry in general and why change is hard to come by.

Truly a fantastic episode where Jennifer shares her past, present, and future thoughts about the construction industry. We also talk about parametric and generative design and how to create a better future with less risk and more inclusivity.

How can 3D printing, data-driven decision making help us in realizing a better world for everyone? Can Digital Twins, 3D printing, rules, and regulations, combined usher in a new era?

What do you think will happen in the future? Is 2021 the year 3D-printing will truly help construction companies increase their margins and accelerate towards a more sustainable and efficient way of working? If not, why?

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Part 2 of 2

Demystifying Cloud Native strategies and how Real-Time Real Estate might look in the future

In part two of this explorative episode of the Beyond Buildings podcast, we continue to talk to the rockstar that is Kai Waehner who is a Technology Evangelist and Big Data Analyst, helping Fortune 500 companies get started, get going, and succeeding in becoming cloud-native.

We demystify the jargon of Kafka that we heard in the first episode about clusters and brokers. We talk about the importance of convincing decision-makers and the side-effects of being able to attract people who want to work with cutting edge tools and technologies. What to send to the cloud and when, and what the beginning of a cloud-native journey could look like. It’s construction, it’s industry 4.0, it’s connectivity as well as distributed intelligence. What an episode!

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Maybe one way to predict the future of real-estate could be to look at other industries and see what they are working on and what tools they use. As always, it doesn’t make much sense to build the future with yesterday's tools, technology, nor mindset. If we want to change the world for the better, maybe we need to go Beyond Buildings and boldly go where others have gone before?

What do you think? Are there any similarities between real estate, industry 4.0, and the importance of local control?

“…I see more and more data flowing around and you need to apply and leverage it to add business value and be innovative in your business”

Part 1 of 2 - In this sensational streaming episode of the Beyond Buildings podcast, we get to talk to the rockstar that is Kai Waehner who is a Technology Evangelist and Big Data Analyst, helping Fortune 500 companies get started, get going, and succeeding in becoming cloud-native. He’s been working with data integration his whole life and has first hand seen the journey Big Data has taken during the last couple of decades. We get to learn more about how to combine slow data and fast data in the same platform, what the industrial IoT scene looks like, Railway Connectivity, and we go above and beyond where most buildings are today. Will there be a need to transfer millions of messages per second in the real estate industry? If so, how can it be done?

This is an episode where we might get a glimpse towards the future modern data strategies for Real Estate Portfolios, that are part of a Smart City context. We get to find out the relationship between open architectures and existing proprietary PLC and much much more. What an exceptional episode thanks to Kai, and I strongly recommend reading up on Streaming Platforms, Apache Kafka, and think about what the future demands from your business!

I’ve been following Kai Waehner for a couple of years now and I really like Kafka as an open-source technology as well as Confluent with what they are bringing to the table.

Going above and beyond real estate is important and it’s fascinating to know more about why will be hybrid cloud strategies in automotive and manufacturing, and that everything is moving towards distributed intelligence.

What do you think? Are there any similarities between real estate, industry 4.0, and the importance of local control?

Combatting Global Warming through Smart Buildings and Smarter people

In this phenomenal episode of the Beyond Buildings podcast, we get to talk to the hero Seun Thomas Orimolade who is working as a service specialist focusing on how to create value for customers in a sustainable way. He started in the HVAC Building Automation industry and has followed his passion for Smart Buildings all over the world! I learned a lot in this episode and Seun really taught me one of the most important lessons I really needed to hear.

Leave no person, or building behind. We are all in it to win it, and there's no business to be done on a dead planet.

This was truly a life-changing episode and we get to learn from Seun how projects and people should be approached in the best way possible when it comes to sustainable digitalization!

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People before processes, meeting customers where they are, taking steps in the right direction, and understanding that we are all in it together. This was a truly enlightening episode that has changed my life for the better. Everyone is looking for something, and it's up to us to demystify what we do and really teach elephants how to dance!

Remember to subscribe, leave a comment and/or share the episode. I hope that you and others will go above and beyond, with the Beyond Buildings Podcast!

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