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Your New Vocation, Building Automation
Whether you read "Building" as a verb or noun,
investigate being part of our Building Automation Industry
to satisfy your
Curiosity, Passion, Innovation,
Motivation, Location, and Edge-You-Cation.
Please share this URL
http://automatedbuildings.com/news/feb21/reviews/210127120301vocation.html
with high schools, higher education identities, re-purposed folks, actually anyone considering joining our industry
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Ken Sinclair
Founder, Owner, Publisher AutomatedBuildings.com
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Your New Vocation, Building Automation
Whether you read "Building" as a verb or noun,
investigate being part of our Building Automation Industry to satisfy your
Curiosity, Passion, Innovation,
Motivation, Location, and Edge-You-Cation.
The need to provide touchless autonomous interfaces in greatly
repurposed buildings have shifted the focus from "boring buildings" to an
exciting mash-up of how the future of work will be "Building Automation Together
Apart".
Our amazing Building Automation Industry has always provided a very
interesting fun and financially stable vocation for the few of us that
chose
to embrace its complexities. The purpose plus the importance of our
rapidly evolving industry has been accelerated, Covid-ized! Our 2021 future cannot help but reflect the year 2020 when we were "COVID-ized.”
I have been part of building the Building Automation industry for 50 years. It has
provided constant income amazing diversity allowing me constant job crafting though out the best and
worse of economical times.
If the virus has affected your career now is the time to
explore
Your New Vocation, a vocation is an occupation to which a person is
especially drawn or for which they are suited, trained, or qualified.
To all my readers, How did you get so smart? Please share a
comment about how you got so smart and made a career in our exciting
industry?
This great response from my contributing editor Scott Cochrane who is a passionate guy in our industry,
I always wondered..... Why you were so smart? but now we all know 🤔😷😵 This is his response,
"It's because of my passion to never stop looking for better
solutions. Every day in the BAS industry I push and with
that, I learn something new."
Great wisdom Scott, my dad told me to make your work something you
like doing "your passion" and you never work another day in your life.
So very True.
He was a fiddler forced to work the farm during the depression to feed
the family so his message was very clear, but who knew growing up
as a kid on a pig farm, Automated Buildings would be my passion?
How do we find our passion? That strong and barely controllable
emotion. What is the secret to finding your passionate vocation, how do
we lead discovery and instill passion in our people? How do guys like
Scott and Ken teach our followers to find their passion?
Build on their desire to know, their Curiosity. Yes, I think that is the start.
Some advice from https://www.oprahmag.com/life/a28100325/how-to-find-your-passion/
Consider the C.L.E.A.R. Path to passion.
According to Putz, there are five stages of passion—recognizing the
early stages can shape the trajectory of how you develop it further.
Putz calls these stages the "C.L.E.A.R. Path":
Curiosity "This is where passion first appears. It begins as something that captures your attention."
Learning. "When you are intrigued by something, you begin to learn more about it. You put time into understanding at a deeper level."
Enthusiasm "You
become excited and enthused. You want to experience more, know more,
and learn even more."
Awareness. "When passion reaches this
level, commitment is required. This is the
'willingness to suffer' level. You will go above and beyond to keep it
flowing."
Recognition "People identify or associate you with a certain path or experience. Your passion stands out."
Very pleased that I'm speaking at Controls-Con | A Smart Building Controls Conference. to help Scott with his "Hybrid Virtual Vocation Vacation" (big smile) designed to Create; Curiosity, Passion, Innovation, Motivation, from any Location, with Edge-You-Cation.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND CONTROLS-CON?
Systems Integrators, Programmers, Engineers, IT Professionals,
Estimators,
Project Managers, Service Technicians, Contractors,
Sales Professionals,
Building Managers, Facility Managers, Executives, .... Please join us a
good way to get a big picture overview of our industry lead by industry
professionals
Also pleased to be a Mentor/Influencer at Monday Live! Mentorship initiative Future Workforce for Smart Building - Let us know how we can help?
Some of my comments condensed from Monday Live Zoom below,
We should take a look at what the Europeans are doing. I think they're
a bit ahead of us in recognizing what we need to do to bring
new people into the industry.
https://www.thejobcrowd.com/apprentice-reviews/technical-degree-apprentice-digital-energy-at-schneider-electric/
The
following is a Apprentice Review for Schneider Electric. Schneider
Electric scores 4.1/5 based on 51 reviews. All reviews are based
exclusively on results of feedback from employees from Schneider
Electric. Employees are asked to rate Schneider Electric on a wide
range of work place topics, which is broken down through star ratings
on the right hand side. Look at the rating for Responsibility:, Work
Life Balance:, Environmental Awareness:, Benefits:
I'm looking forward to our March issue,
we're going to celebrate the women in our
industry. And I'm going to reach out to all of them and have them
explain why they are so smart and how they got into the industry and
why young girls today should
follow them. Celebrating our success is a big part of attracting folks
to our industry. Another thing
that is encouraging is in my LinkedIn group now over 20,000, I'm
getting a
tremendous amount of these new younger folks joining and
following automated buildings, they see some kind of a connection
there, which I think is useful. I am very pleased
that many are young women. We've always struggled to get
into our industry these young women which are extremely well educated
and bring great perspective on how all this stuff makes our life
better.
This whole re-purposing piece is very
interesting, too, is if you take a look at their backgrounds, they are not necessarily electrical or mechanical. They come
from almost any discipline; psychology, chemistry, ...they basically all
have an amazing education, but now they need a real paying job. And if somebody
will give them a job, instill passion, and bring them on as an
apprentice, providing them a certification after a year. That's a powerful program.
Looking at the young folks that took over my old
energy automation consulting company the diversity of their
background totally amazes me, most have an engineering background,
but some of them are data scientists, some of them have come from
completely different environments.
That diversity has really changed the direction of the company and
has also created a few spin offs, new startups, folks wanting to create
data scientist type approaches, and basically to start
spinning off the energy auditing as a service. So
there has been some interesting crossovers. Like this https://www.audette.io/about. In the past the big
decision was to hire a mechanical or electrical engineer? I think the
answer is probably neither one of them. Probably the data
scientist or IoT folks as the data is becoming the whole. The data
becomes the way we learn about the systems. We all have been involved
in the working end of it, we really
need to move some of our thought into the thinking end of our industry.
The problem is I don't think we well understand all
the jobs that are out there on the table now that are going to
interface with our industry.
Way back in the early days of Direct Digital Control "DDC". One of
the things we obviously needed to talk to the DDC system
was a personal computer ''PC". In a lot of
projects, we were the first one that got a computer into
the mechanical offices, because they needed it to talk to their DDC
system. When
the gamers whos day job was building operators came and started looking at our
DDC interface to the PCs they asked a great question like why do you not
use HTML instead of vendor clunky software as your operator interface? I remember
working on one project, and we built some of the first HTML interfaces even before PDF was almost open and useful. This 1999 demo discussion shows the thinking
The gamers of the day saw clearly the
connection between all of this stuff. I think we're in exactly
the same situation today, we have whole groups
of folks that have these microcomputers, Raspberry Pi's and Beagle
boards... in their touch and they know how to experiment
with them. They will learn our industry through
them. This is the true value of the eye of technology, IoT is a gateway
to our industry and your vocation. We just have to get them to take a
look at what we're
doing.
I think the home market is pretty interesting. I find
these devices, amazing, the fact that they can set themselves up. We just
got a new TV, I couldn't believe it. I basically signed on with my
phone and all of the apps account setups, passwords, and stuff that were on my phone
uploaded to my TV. In less than a minute, I had everything I
had on my phone on new my TV. I hadn't thought of the concept of
devices setting devices up. But in today's minds,
how else would you do it? This
whole leading edge of what's happening in IoT keeps falling on us
and
we're always chasing it, I think we just need to create an
interest for our new vocation folks to come and try and apply their
knowledge directly to our
industry.
We've all been pushing around the concept of the autonomous
building, which will follow the growth of the autonomous car. If
anybody just bought a car in the
last few years, just the amount of sensors, radar,
cameras, sensors, and other stuff is amazing and it's all integrated.
Not just integrated but most are wirelessly integrated. All this stuff
is obviously cost-effective. So we need to see these new kinds of sensors coming into
our building. Our industry never had the scale to make sensors
inexpensive but the new approach and the volume of the electric and
autonomous car industry is rapidly changing this landscape.
In our old day's networks were very
problematic, and they had to be closely controlled, or they just turned into a
disaster. With these new wireless networks, somehow seem to be
able to crash themselves, rebuild themselves, and be back up doing something they never did before. Very quickly.
How does your
building interact when I walk into it? How is the building autonomous
to my action? Because that's what the car does you get into the car,
and the car does all of these things, because you are in the car. It
senses and connects your phone, adjusts your seat, controls your
climate, turns on lights, wipers,.. etc Autonomously because you
are there.
New terms folks like now are what they call job crafting. I've done some writing on that.
It's an interesting
concept basically you chat with them about the best you can be together
and maybe better yet apart?
What skills do they have?. They obviously need a passion for our
industry with database and IoT skills the ability to think like a data
scientist, but if in fact, their hobby is producing YouTube videos,
then they have even extra appeal. And all of a sudden, they create a
part of the job that we hadn't even envisioned, in addition to doing
our
traditional industry stuff. Asking them to do what we are doing now is
dangerous, I think we need to better define how they
could job craft themselves into our industry.
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs! Next, Monday Live!
will be talking about the types of jobs our members are trying to fill
right now and in the near future. Join us Monday at 3 pm ET if
you or someone you know is looking for a career move. Register at https://mondaylive.org
How can I get to find out if this Building Automation is the industry for me in a few minutes?
Scan quickly these online overviews of our industry Click on 3D for a fly over of an amazing amount of information in less than a minute,
Timeline SMART BUILDING AUTOMATION EVOLUTION
From Y2K to 2021 a blur of our past 22 years
"The Building Book of Digital Transformation." evolving ONLINE with Connected Contractor
To explore and understand automation hardware get your hands on a low cost micro computer edge controller and play with it. You will learn a lot very quickly,
Follow online blogs like this one
Zach is one of our contributing editors and writes about using new open low cost hardware.This linkedIn post helps as well https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ken-sinclair-8246965_cloud-edge-raspberrypi-activity-6759024123088924672-OSl0
Read about new approaches to our industry SMART Sensor with Capabilities the BAS Industry Never Imagined
In Building Automation Systems (BAS), we are used to a few main data
types to drive control in buildings. This includes things like motion,
temperature, humidity, and pressure with our goal to provide a safe,
comfortable, secure environment. However, with major changes going on
in and around our buildings, we need to work with NEW DATA in NEW WAYS
to bring the NEW REALITY people are looking for to life. Welcome
IoT! With new tech, we can bring a new picture to building owners of an
asset that is in great need of some focus right now. For us in BAS,
that means a departure from traditional thinking and a new era of
multi-use, multi-purpose IP network-enabled devices that re-landscape
the data that drives the buildings. Introducing a new way of thinking
of building control—utilizing microphones, air particle scanners,
speakers, accelerometers, vape, smoke and gas detection to help
building owners accomplish a modern, secure, safe and comfortable
environment in TODAY’S CRAZY NEW ERA. What if there was a SMART sensor
that could do all of that and more?
Platform
wars are well underway and will create great opportunities to
understand and move our complex industry on to them an example here,
“Microsoft Azure provides AI and IoT technologies that drive the
digital transformation of customers, and it continues to grow as a
global platform. Hitachi is actively developing smart building
solutions for the new normal. We have high expectations that this
platform will accelerate digital transformation in the building
facility maintenance field. We for our part will also conduct sales
promotion support activities for this solution on Microsoft AppSource.
Moving forward, we will continue to grow our partnership with Hitachi,
including expanding collaboration for overseas markets, and to work
closely with our customers and drive digital transformation that leads
to positive social change.”
Google Digital Buildings Project: Putting the Internet into the Building Internet of Things Published: January 7th, 2021
“How do we achieve a digital world, digital city or even a digital
building with little agreement on what “smart,” “intelligent” or
“digital” is? How do we compare digital buildings within a city without
any criteria or common ground?” says Kathy Farrington, Technical
Program Manager at Google. “One approach is to focus on creating the
infrastructure to allow for any device to work with any application.
This builds towards a world much more in line with the explosive
potential of the Internet, rather than bespoke environments we see in
buildings today that are limited in their utility.”
So as you can see the scope of Your Vocation Building
Automation is unlimited and you will learn skills you can use in any
industry, but you will never leave our industry once you start... big smile... trust me on
that.
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