Sensors
Commercial building and facilities management resources for corporate facility executives, building operators and facility managers in all industry and service sectors. Sensors articles below.
Making Sense of Sensors
With a comprehensive strategy, data provided by workspace sensors helps ensure facility space assets are leveraged to their full potential.
Six Tips For A Successful Lighting Retrofit
Designing to code and considering future needs help to minimize obstacles and maximize investment.
Technology For Workspace Planning
Room booking software and other tech tools empower employees to improve their working environments.
Facility Executive | October 2019 Issue
The October 2019 Issue looks at sustainability for buildings and grounds. Plus sensor technology, keeping facility grounds safe, and lighting retrofits.
Smart Buildings And The IoT
IoT is creating opportunities for information gathering and sharing that will have an astounding impact on the way buildings are managed and operated.
Sensaphone Remote Monitoring
LTE Cellular Modem with Battery Backup ensures continuous monitoring of critical equipment and environmental conditions where an Ethernet connection is inaccessible.
Protect Your Building Against Disaster With Environmental Monitoring
Environmental monitoring can detect emergencies and allow buildings to communicate with their operators, preventing minor issues from becoming disasters.
Top Five Trends Driving POL Adoption For Smart Buildings
Passive Optical Local Area Networks are the key to future-ready, cost-effective digital transformations in smart environments.
NETGEAR Unmanaged Switch Additions
Four plug-and-play switches have a built-in intuitive power selector and support optional interchangeable external power supplies.
Drones And Facility Management
These unmanned aerial vehicles are used increasingly for building and site inspections, and expanded capabilities are on the horizon.
Improve Deployment of IoT Networks
Deploy-It-Yourself Management Platform simplifies access to IoT-enabled data and control capabilities from systems, sensors, and equipment.
Hands-Free Robotic Floor Care Machine
The TASKI SWINGOBOT 2000 is a hands-free scrubber drier robotic floor care machine with built-in sensors and innovative on-board technologies.
Today is Global Handwashing Day!
Sloan supports the objectives of Global Handwashing Day and is constantly working to develop products that improve hand hygiene.
Bringing Biometrics Into Facility Security
Despite the benefits of this security technology, the potential for spoofing and hacking impedes user adoption of biometrics.
Tips For Maintaining Restrooms
For restroom cleaning, couple newer tools with tried-and-true practices for user satisfaction.
Morgan Stanley Facilities Retrofit With Current, powered by GE
The companies are collaborating on an energy efficiency program across more than 600 Morgan Stanley retail branches with a turnkey LED lighting and digital controls solution.
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View this free video webinar and learn how smart building solutions are creating a new paradigm of connectivity and disrupting the building industry.
B.E.G. Controls New RATIO For Scene Control
Able to control up to 35 LED fixtures, RATIO features three components: sensor, power supply, and controller.
Top 8 Predictions For The Workplace Experience in 2018
These emerging and evolving concepts provide a framework around which facility management can plan and operate the workplace environments they oversee.
Wireless LED Controls at Strategies in Light
EnOcean's wireless Easyfit LED controls for various open standards enable simple commissioning, intelligent local control, and seamless integration with building automation systems.
Senior Living Operator Highlights ENERGY STAR Certifications
For 2017, Brookdale Senior Living earned the energy efficiency certification for 25 of its facilities throughout 10 states.
Question Of The Week: How Buildings Learn
Behind their walls buildings have long supported an interplay of systems that belies their static presence. Now, the ability for buildings to learn and proactively impact operations expands the horizon of possibilities.
HS300x Family Of Relative Humidity Sensors From IDT
New humidity sensors offer high accuracy with the fastest measurement response time of comparable devices currently on the market.
Device Solutions NG Cellio LoRa Transceivers
Next generation Cellio LoRa long-range, low-power wireless transceivers are for wide area, end-to-end monitoring and control for agriculture, cold chain, gas distribution, transportation, and many other industrial applications.
Big Data Applications For Physical Security
Every sensor within a building system has data to share. And, whether it’s fire, intrusion, or access control, the information can be used for its security-related purposes.
XtraLight Focuses On LED Lighting For Data Centers
Data centers can improve power usage effectiveness by up to 25% with energy-efficient LED lighting paired with sophisticated controls and sensors.
Current, Powered By GE, Installs LED Lighting In 32 GM Facilities
Alongside energy retrofit projects like LED lighting, Current can simultaneously attach a sensor-based digital network to provide facilities additional data and insights into their operations.
RLE Technologies’ Facilities Management System Receives Patent
The company’s latest patent was awarded for innovative mapping and nesting features that employ a distributed monitoring model in facility management systems.
Acuity’s xCella Wireless Control System
xCella Wireless allows for the control of lighting, HVAC, and plug load in small spaces and can also be networked for a floor or building-wide solution.
Facility Management Is Facilitated By Smart Sensors
In pursuing a smart building, a critical step is to identify and select smart sensors that are capable of generating rich, actionable data about an occupant’s whereabouts.
Smart Buildings Get Smarter With IoT
From building management systems to the next frontier of facility technology, the benefits of IoT abound but the roadmap differs for each organization.
Aegex IoT Platform for Hazardous Industries
The Aegex IoT Platform for Hazardous Locations is built specifically for regulated areas where explosive atmospheres require Internet of Things equipment that is certified intrinsically safe, or incapable of causing an explosion.
Junction Sensor Monitoring and Alerting Service
A environmental sensor-based system that provides monitoring and alerting services for the mechanical spaces of buildings.
Space Planning Strategies
Efficient facility layout and utilization help to deliver cost savings and occupant productivity. Would pursuing “Standards as a Service” promote these goals?
Smart City 2.0: Economic Development In A Digital Metropolis
In this fourth installment in a six-part series, the impact of municipal digital infrastructure on economic development is discussed.
Smart City 2.0: Infrastructure For The Digital Age
This second article in a series discusses a new kind of urban infrastructure, purpose built for the digital age.
Verdigris Energy Monitoring And Notification
This SaaS platform combines sensor hardware and artificial intelligence to deliver insights about energy consumption and operating conditions.
Technology And FM: The Internet Of Things
This disruption impacting facilities management holds significant promise if stakeholders are cognizant of their roles in the emerging landscape.
Frost & Sullivan: Sensor Technologies Becoming An Integral Part of Buildings
Focusing on minimizing false readings and improving accuracy will quicken widespread adoption.
Technology and FM: Securing Perimeters
From wire detection to the latest video analytics, there are many ways to protect exteriors. From the August 2013 issue.
