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To Embracing Enlightenment will need to create Platforms of Trust. The trend toward both the goals of Enlightenment and Trust were well
underway before COVID-19 but the urgency and necessity have been
greatly amplified.
As we set about creating a platform of trust for our employees and
buildings we start to understand the complexity of the ever changing
landscape.
Thinking for health and safety first, crosses over traditional normal
understanding of building comfort and nice to have features. This
new corporate mandate requires that all employees be insured that they
are safe at home, at the office, and in the in between.
To achieve this goal organizational change that breaks traditional barriers is necessary Platform of trust are required
What is Platform of Trust?
Communally built Platform of Trust provides a trustworthy and
easy-to-use surrounding where you can utilize a vast data pool and
develop everyday services for your customers with the help from the
developer community and without a need for pricey and time-consuming
integrations.
Platform of Trust has Finnish origins, but it’s built to expand
globally through the network of built environment innovation hubs.
What is an Outcome-Based Service Model?
The driving ideology behind an outcome-based service model is that
companies are selling business outcomes rather than just products. In
more sophisticated terms, outcome-based service is “a new business
model of outcome-based contracts where the firm is tasked to achieve
outcomes of equipment as a service contract instead of the traditional
maintenance, repair and overhaul activities,” according to Industrial
Marketing Management.
Essentially, the service provider and the customer mutually agree on
specific outcomes that are measurable and attainable, and designed to
ensure customer success. This service dynamic is therefore a win-win –
customers get the outcomes they want, and service providers know
exactly what is expected of them.
"The trend
is towards Platforms that provide Outcome as service. A
separation of
controls logic data from hard equipment needs to be provided,
maintained, upgraded, and optimized as an outcome service.
Major pieces
of equipment may not be purchased in the future but will be bought as a
service, servitization strategies will prevail" MHO
Imagine your cell phone as a trusted outcome platform on
which you download and connect to other trusted platforms to create
your customized personalized outcomes.
This is conceptually what needs to be built for companies to allow
their employees access to buildings, providing cybersecurity for all
their devices, plus now protection and safety of their health. Other
outcomes need to be easily added and deleted such as location services,
physical distancing and environment control of detected space. Each
platform needs to be able to share the data lake and have the ability
to navigate this data and become more aware. Open source everything and
common database standards are necessary.
This is evolving in many forms but the struggle is everyone wants to be
the top layer platform but it needs to be a Communally built Platform
or
the trust is broken. The amount of platforms of trust evolving now are
truly amazing. This is a great resource peeking into some of the
platforms that are being used but many more are under development.
The 5th edition of KPMG’s Real Estate Innovations Overview shows numerous fascinating innovations from all around the world.
To classify the innovations, we have used nine categories:
Here are four that caught my attention
❖ The first category, digitizing
processes consists of innovations that digitize traditional processes.
This enables the processes to analyse more data, be accessible online
and real-time while making them more efficient and user friendly.
❖
Flexible workspaces entails innovations that create the option for Real
Estate to be flexible in time, location and environment. Workplaces can
be allocated 'anywhere' and 'anytime'.
❖
Innovations in healthy workplace and living focus on the internal
working environments, ranging from air purity to office treadmills for
walking meetings, to optimize employee satisfaction, health or
productivity.
❖
Platforms to connect allow users to connect and interact with
stakeholders (e.g.buyers/sellers, owners/tenants, or construction
parties and maintenance). These could essentially result in optimized
communication, collaborations, knowledge-sharing and/or synergies.
Wireless-First Strategy, what to think about? - Nicolas Waern
Using wireless-mesh in buildings will offer comfort knowing that, when
customers want bi-directional when data-scientists and AI/ML-powered
solutions cry for more real-time data, you have the solution for it
already in place. One API, delivering all that data you want and that
works seamlessly together with existing and future solutions.
The term "onboarding" is what we need to do with our industry to create a Phoenix from our COVID-19 Ashes. This expression alludes to the legendary phoenix, a bird that
supposedly rose from the ashes of its funeral pyre with renewed youth.
In this example Chipotle and Shopify have worked together to lead virtual onboarding
sessions with the partner farmers to help them get acquainted with
Shopify's platform. We are all in this together and need to keep our critical parts healthy. Their supply chain was at risk.
Chipotle launches virtual farmers’ market
Chipotle Mexican Grill has launched a virtual farmers’ market allowing
farmers in the company’s supply chain to launch improved versions of
their own e-commerce websites.
Chipotle said hopes its virtual farmers’ market will give suppliers a
new stream of revenue and enhance their commitment to sustainable
farming practices amid unforeseen circumstances. The company noted the
pandemic has magnified a crisis the agricultural industry had already
been suffering. Farmers have had to destroy millions of pounds of fresh
goods due to decreased demand with restaurants, hotels and schools
closed.
SaaS in the Building Automation Market
A new wave of investment, driven by the SaaS model and a growing market
emphasis on energy efficiency, is bringing new entrants into the
commercial building environment management market. Building management
systems (BMS) provide centralized management and control systems to
maintain the building environment. Over the past decade these
traditional systems have been upgraded to Building Automation Systems
delivering greater environment sensing and connectivity to networked
management capabilities. Now, new entrants are pioneering ways of
leveraging BAS/BMS data already being collected to deliver in-depth
analysis and provide actions to improve BAS/BMS efficiency.
Who are you going to trust? discussions follow - three
pillars: the planet (environmental), people (social), and profit
(economical).
Lauren Scott: After the Great Pause — A Case for Choosing to Move Forward Over Going Back
During this period, we have heard countless people, politicians and
pundits express a strong desire to get back to life pre-COVID. However,
I would argue that, after the Great Pause, we should be focused not on
going back to normal, but on moving forward to a new, more sustainable
reality. COVID-19 ripped open and exposed a deep wound based on
resource inequality. So what better time than now for our community,
more tightly interconnected than ever, to pull together to rebuild our
lives in a way that respects the Triple Bottom Line, a framework built
across three pillars: the planet (environmental), people (social), and
profit (economical).
Is working from home better or worse for the environment?
The online journal IOPscience recently published a review of 39 studies
about the climate impacts of teleworking. Twenty-six of those studies
suggest that working from home reduces energy usage, and eight found
that it could increase, or have the same impact on, energy use.
ASHRAE's First-Ever Virtual Conference Is Proving to Be a Success
"We are very pleased with what turned out to be a seamless shift from
our in-person annual conference to a virtual format," 2020-21 ASHRAE
President Charles E. Gulledge III, P.E. "The feedback we're receiving
from attendees is very positive, as our Society continues to lead the
industry towards a healthy and sustainable built environment for all,
by providing solutions to current engineering challenges."
We’re approaching a golden age of conversational artificial intelligence
From tech startups to government services, organizations are
taking advantage of the power of conversational AI to improve their
customer experience.
Conversational AI is a type of artificial intelligence that enables
software to understand and interact with people naturally, using spoken
or written language. Enterprises have adopted conversational AI in a
number of ways:
Where are you on your servitisation journey?
Marne Martin, President, IFS Service Management Business Unit, added:
“This survey confirms the current state of play as we have observed it
among our product-centric customers, many of whom are employing
servitization strategies to monetize their expertise and capture larger
parts of their respective value chains. The IDC Servitization Barometer
also lays out the key hurdles facing many manufacturing organizations,
including the lack of internal know-how and the perennial problem of
running legacy, disjointed business systems.”
Customer-Centric IoT Platform Leader Brings International Expertise to Open Standards
Manufacturers, brands, OEMs and retail chains partner with Tuya to
access its AI + IoT (AIoT) platforms to transform products into smart
devices and systems. Tuya wireless modules integrate seamlessly into
existing objects to instantly connect to the company’s cloud platform,
and the Tuya Smart application enables smart product control via mobile
devices. The company serves more than 180,000 partners in over 190
countries to power categories including lighting, appliances,
environmental equipment and surveillance systems.
Cultivating Trust in AI Technologies
NIST has a long-standing reputation for cultivating trust in technology
by participating in the development of standards and metrics that
strengthen measurement science and make technology more secure, usable,
interoperable and reliable. This work is critical in the AI space to
ensure public trust of rapidly evolving technologies, so that we can
benefit from all that this field has to promise.
AI systems typically make decisions based on data-driven models created
by machine learning, or the system’s ability to detect and derive
patterns. As the technology advances, we will need to develop rigorous
scientific testing that ensures secure, trustworthy and safe AI. We
also need to develop a broad spectrum of standards for AI data,
performance, interoperability, usability, security and privacy.
This is a fun satire discussion by myself and newly created Zoom
Philosophers Eric and Kenneth of Control Trends. Encase you like me
need a history lesson of folks in the 1700 that were part of our
enlightenment this will help with the teasing and name calling that was
part of our ControlTalk.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the philosophical treatises A Discourse on
the Origins of Inequality (1755) and The Social Contract (1762); the
novels Julie; or, The New Eloise (1761) and Émile; or, On Education
(1762); and the autobiographical Confessions (1782–1789), among other
works.
Adam Smith FRSA (c. 16 June [ O.S. c. 5 June] 1723 – 17 July 1790) was
a Scottish economist, philosopher, and author as well as a moral
philosopher, a pioneer of political economy, and a key figure during
the Scottish Enlightenment, also known as ''The Father of Economics''
or ''The Father of Capitalism''.
This week's ControlTalk NOW provides unique foresight into a new and novel frontier, what
Ken Sinclair calls the "In-between Space." Our post-COVID buildings
require Renaissance-like thinking to create a safer, healthier, and
more productive work space.
In his July editorial, Ken Sinclair
waxes philosophical: We must use the positive powers of
Reinvention, Rebirth, and Renaissance to fuel our personal and
professional enlightenment as we cope with the realities and
responsibilities that the COVID-19 pandemic has levied upon
us. Ken offers this sage advice, “We are the philosophers of
today. Let us all use responsible social media to bring trust and truth
to enlightening the world.”
This was also referred to in our chat,
She’s already a familiar face to British Columbians amid the COVID-19
pandemic, and now Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry is being
recognized internationally for her work, after The New York Times
published a profile piece on her this week.
The Top Doctor Who Aced the Coronavirus Test
“This is our time to be kind,” she
said in her slow and low-pitched voice that many call comforting, “to
be calm and to be safe.”
Ledger of Harms BETA VERSION Updated May 28, 2020
Under immense pressure to prioritize
engagement and growth, technology platforms have created a race for
human attention that’s unleashed invisible harms to society. Here are
some of the costs that aren't showing up on their balance sheets.
When I started in industry 50 years ago they told me good
Automation was indistinguishable from magic. Our evolution has led us
to even more powerful magic but as real and virtual blur and people
become the controlled variable in our process we need to ensure that we
are not precieved to be delivering sorcery, witchcraft, wizardry, etc.
We need to be the responsible harbingers of the Enlightenment of our
Renaissance.
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