The Smart Buildings Academy Podcast | Teaching You Building Automation, Systems Integration, and Information Technology

Hey BAM Nation! I am so freakin excited about today's episode. Why you ask?

Because in today's episode I move into the second module of the learn series! The feedback I have gotten is amazing and I look forward to continuing to help you advance your career in the building automation space!

In today's episode I will be kicking off the BAS hardware module of the learn series and we will be discussing physical controller inputs!

In today's episode we will cover:

• Technical Tip of the Week
• The 4 types of inputs you absolutely need to know!
• Career Tip of the Week

Hey BAM Nation! Another day, another podcast episode!

In this episode I continue my teaching on systems integration. The process I teach you today massively important and will save you hundreds of thousands of dollars if you implement it

In today's episode I will be teaching you how to perform a gap analysis as part of your systems integration process!

In today's episode we will cover:

• What is a gap analysis
• Why it is critical to perform the gap analysis on any of your integrations prior to purchasing any products or executing any work
• How to perform a gap analysis
  • Step 1: Identify your use case requirements
  • Step 2: Identify your current capabilities
  • Step 3: Map out the present and missing requirements
  • Step 4: Identify a solution to close the gap

Hey BAM Nation! In today's episode I will be wrapping up the first module of the learn series, control modes! In this episode I will be discussing the fourth and final control mode, binary control.

On/off, open/shut, binary control is everywhere and in this episode we will discuss this critically important control mode!

In today's episode we will cover:

• Technical Tip of the Week
• What Binary Control is and How it works
• Career Tip of the Week

Hey BAM Nation! In this episode I am going to be continuing my systems integration 101 series and will be taking you through my 3rd article in the series titled, "How to Identify your AS-IS systems".

In today's episode we will cover:

• What are AS-IS systems
• Why identifying your AS-IS systems is critically important
• What the BDAT domains are and why you should care
• The top questions you should ask for each domain

In this episode, I will be talking about the 3rd control mode in the learn series, Floating Control, in this episode you will learn what floating control is and why it is important to you.

In today's episode we will cover:

• Technical Tip of the Week
• Wrap up on how to Setup Sequencers
• What Floating Control is and How it Works
• Career Tip of the Week

In this episode, I will be taking you through the topic of use cases. Use cases are critical to executing a great systems integration project. The problem is most use cases are from useful and quite honestly a lot of them suck. That's why I recorded this episode for you.

In today's episode we will cover:

• What is a use case?
• How can you identify the systems and people involved?
• My 3 step framework for developing useful use cases 100% of the time.

In this episode, I will be continuing the learn series and unpacking our next control mode, sequencers. Sequencers allow you to "stage" devices on and off.

In today's episode we will cover:

• My technical tip of the week
• How both physical and logical sequencers work
• My career tip of the week

In this episode I discuss my new series systems integration 101 and I talk through what you can expect as part of the series. Over the next 8 weeks I will cover 8 lessons that discuss systems integration.

Also in this episode I will cover lesson #1 Systems Interfacing vs Systems Integration. In this lesson I will discuss the differences and what each approach is.

In this episode, I continue the discussion around PID loops and will be covering everyone's favorite task, tuning PID loops! Sooner or later in your BAS career you are going to have to learn how to tune PID loops.

In today's episode we will cover:

• My weekly Technical Tip
• How to tune your PID Loops (Deep Dive)
• My weekly Career Tip

In this episode, I dive into one of my most requested topics and that is the topic of Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) Loops.

In today's episode we will cover:

• My weekly Technical Tip
• What PID Loops are
• How PID Loops work
• How you can tune PID Loops
• My weekly Career Tip