Beyond Buildings

Part 2 of 2!

In part two episode of the Beyond Building Podcast, we continue the discussion with the incredible Osman Saleem from Intelligent Buildings. This episode provides a holistic discussion of the many different domino-effects regarding building vulnerability. What could happen if someone would change the intake of air at a hospital? What could happen if printers are plugged into the network? How to get started with Smart Building strategies?

These are the questions you will find out more about!

What do you think? Are buildings accidents waiting to happen? What would happen if cities came out with new legal requirements on open data from real estate portfolios? Would this drive the adoption of smart building technology and put additional focus on the security measures people need to take? What is the actual role buildings need to take in a Smart City context, and what role does security have to play?

Go above and beyond, with the Beyond Buildings Podcast!

Bomb Scares, City Foundations and How to Achieve a Shared Secure Reality for All is out at Anchor and all places where Podcasts live. 

And finally, a big thank you to Osman, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor:

“Having everything under one roof, that’s the way to go for the future”

- IT/OT/IoT conversion

In this great episode of the Beyond Building Podcast, we talk to the incredible Osman Saleem from Intelligent Buildings. We have a really fun discussion around Smart Building Strategies and Operational Technology Security Strategies. Osman leverages his impressive background in providing valuable insights to customers such as Senior Executive Leadership and organizations in different fields. Osman really knows what he is talking about which you can both hear in the episode and see from the topics below!

All is not gold that glimmers, that’s for sure. But is there a way to get away from the Lowest bid mentality? Or is it more of how to create the best solution for the lowest cost possible? Isn’t that what should happen? And if so, what are the metrics?

Osman Saleem takes us all on a journey in this episode. And I agree that we need to ride the wave of change in the traditional building automation industry and get it to a level where people can derive more value from buildings in an easy, secure, and interoperable way. What do you think?

Go above and beyond, with the Beyond Buildings Podcast!

Smart, Secure, Real Estate Portfolio Strategy Creation is out at Anchor and all places where Podcasts live. And finally, a big thank you to Osman, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor:

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Faster path to value and a road towards better performing assets         

In this episode of the Beyond Building Podcast, we talk to the Phenomenal Peter Rake from Switch Automation. Peter is the Global Director of Integration and he really knows what the industry needs to do to achieve a faster path to value in onboarding buildings and getting to digital maturity. It is companies like Switch Automation that can serve the data up faster, marrying BMS and IoT from a holistic perspective!

Peter does an amazing job keeping the conversation focused on the challenges at hand and what we need to do as a community to get things to happen. It is important to realize that a lot of people are on a journey and understand where they are. And also, what Peter says about the necessity of having a destination in mind!

Recording this episode was a lot of fun where Peter excels in explaining how Switch Automation helps in delivering a faster path to value in onboarding buildings, and getting to increased digital maturity for the entire industry! Go above and beyond, with the Beyond Buildings Podcast!

Goal Oriented Portfolio Performance is out at Anchor and all places where Podcasts live. And finally, a big thank you to Peter, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor:

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In this special episode of the beyond buildings podcast we talk to the Smart World Architect that is… Nicolas Waern! I was lucky enough to be interviewed by the amazing Dr Lawrence Ampofo about Responsible Innovation from a Digital Twin perspective. Lawrence is a thought leader on the impact of digital technologies on humans and society and the humanization of technologies in the workplace. Digital Mindfulness is what Lawrence is all about and he is doing an amazing job at that!

Lawrence had some great questions and I go on a rant about how to ingrain responsible innovation into the very fabric of daily decision making and everything around it.

We discuss the importance of context and I talk about the fact that I just want to know more and more and more, from everyone.

·       What is the relationship between AI and Digital Twins?

·       How can companies know what will happen before it happens?

·       How can we record reality and make it into a force for good?

·       Why is visualization so important from a Responsible Innovation perspective?

·       How to transition from a traditional company into one with Digital DNA?

·       Responsible Innovation in the Supply Chain with Digital Twins

·       How Digital Twins relate to IoT and analytics

·       The importance of getting silos connected to understand the full picture

·       How combined data sources can improve time to value creation

·       The pillars of a modern digital twin

·       The relationship between Digital Twins, Blockchain and BI Dashboards

·       The role of visualizations and simulations related to Digital Twins

·       How Digital Twins can help companies be ready for the future

·       What steps are relevant to create the impact companies need

·       Climate Change relevance, and why we need to do more, together!

·       Why companies need a shared reality for their stakeholders

·       Digital Twins enabling increased transparency from a responsibility perspective

If everything is connected. And machines can talk to each other in a native way. Will there be places to relax? Will there be places to hide from the digital world? Or will we forever be trapped by the very tools that were created to make us more human? Is all this technology allowing and enabling us to be more human? Or less?

And finally, a big thank you to Lawrence, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor:

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In this episode of the beyond buildings podcast we continue to listen to the great Building Automation guru Rob Huntington from Australia. Where we talk more about the change needed in the real estate industry. This is part two, so if you haven’t listened to part one, you could start here and listen to it first!

At the very beginning of this episode, I go on a rant about Digital Twins, what they are, what they should solve, and what value they can provide for customers. And then we discuss the importance of context, and how expensive is something really when viewing it from a holistic perspective?

We talk about:

We talk about App store concepts and Tesla comparisons to OTA (Over The Air) updates. What is the sense of urgency to run what-if scenarios and simulations, knowing what will happen before it happens? We also discuss at length if this really is a technology problem or a people problem. Simply put, this is an episode you can’t miss! Please let me know what you think, and what you want to hear more of.

Go above and beyond, with the beyond buildings podcast!

And please leave a comment, share your thoughts, and give us some input on how we can improve for the future! Because it’s the data we don’t have, that will change our lives!

Outcome-based Digital Twin Simulations is out at Anchor and all places where Podcasts live. And finally, a big thank you to Rob, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor:

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  "Why are we doing the same things in the same way, but expecting different results?"

In this amazing episode that is part 1 of 2, we talk to the legendary building automation expert, Rob Huntington in Australia.

We get to learn from someone who's seen it all and is taking that knowledge and helping customers future proof their buildings, as well as their businesses. We talk about the need to avoid duplications and how companies can realize a single pane of glass. And not only that, but we also talk about:

Rob talks about the importance of changing the conversation and that we can't take smart silo-solutions and expect building intelligence. And that we need to be better at showing how to go from Smart Buildings as a buzzword, to a cost-saving exercise that will benefit the industry at large. Hotels and other industries might have pre-historic guidelines hampering modern results. Maybe it’s the guidelines that need updating, now more than ever? Will that happen through standardization, increased communication, or do we throw more people at the problem?

It is very true that we got a couple of problems to solve… And luckily for all of us, Rob is definitely there to solve them!

Another fantastic episode with an amazing smart building specialist. Please let me know what you think, and what you want to hear more of. Thank you for listening to the Beyond Buildings Podcast!

And please leave a comment, share your thoughts, and give us some input on how we can improve for the future! Because it’s the data we don’t have, that will change our lives!

World Merging & Duplication Destruction is out at Anchor and all places where Podcasts live. And finally, a big thank you to Rob, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor:

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In this episode of the Beyond Buildings Podcast, we talk to the almost all-knowing building automation guru, Tyson Soutter. We get to hear about Tysons phenomenal journey through time and how he ended up landing his dream job on a different continent. Tyson started with visual basics but is now the Global Business Development Manager working with all Digitalization aspects of buildings for the global giant, Siemens. One quote that really stood out was:

And there is plenty more where that came from! In this episode, we get answers to these questions below, and much more!

This is a must-listen for anyone and everyone interested in where the world will be in the years to come. Not limited to the world of building automation and smart buildings, but the world at large. Moving from where we are now, to where we need to be, is important for everyone.

- Listen and find out what Tyson has to say!

And finally a big thank you to Tyson, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor:

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In this episode of the Beyond Buildings Podcast, we talk to the Future Shaper Omar Yakobi who is turning buildings into strategic assets. He’s adamant that the traditional real estate industry has a lot to learn from Data Centers because of their high level of digital maturity. They are in the process of lessons learned from AI/ML initiatives where the rest has yet to get started.

This is an episode jam-packed with information, talking about 5G, resiliency, distributed intelligence, how technology can provide value to outcome-based strategies, and how to create a smarter world for everyone.

We talk about:

*Yes we can have multiple Digital Twins, but they need to share data with each other, otherwise, it's no use. The aspects of 5G are interesting and it’s less about the high bandwidth and marketing hype, and more about how 5G will increase Smart City resiliency. Can 5G contribute to offering more services on the same channel? Basically having a TV that historically could only show one channel, but now with 5G, the ability to show more channels, and monetize all of them?

What does resiliency mean and how can companies create impact from the data they haven’t got?

And finally a big thank you to Omar, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor:

- Listen and find out!

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In this episode of the Beyond Buildings Podcast, we talk to the energy guru, question-asker, engineer, analytics nerd - James Dice!

He is like Moses in the BAS/BMS/Energy space and brings his followers to the promised land. Possibly, by separating the hardware from the software and into the open we go.

We talk about:

James discusses the reality as it is with an overlay paradigm and that there are millions of buildings that will stay the same, not having access to cutting edge tech in a while. So we’ll be having old underneath, new at the top, with an overlay approach that will probably go on for the next 25 years, if not more.

And why are we doing this? Why are we trying to optimize buildings? Is it for the sake of energy efficiency? People? The planet even? Listen and find out!

- Listen in and hear what the world was like Pre-COVID and what a discussion between building automation nerds sound like!

And finally a big thank you to James, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor:

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In this episode of the Beyond Buildings Podcast, we talk to the Smart Building Expert Omar Yakobi. He's a future shaper who is helping his customers turn their buildings into strategic assets. 

Will the future be about the decoupling of hardware and software? And where are we now and how do we get there? We talk about:

We talk about how to bring choice to the ones that don't have a choice today. And how the people that are last to the scene, can have all the choice in the world. Unlocking the industry starts with unlocking minds, as Omar puts it. 

- Listen in and hear what the world was like Pre-COVID and what a true building automation specialist thinks about the industry!

Go above and beyond, with the Beyond Buildings Podcast!

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