Unlocking 27 Years of Industry Memory
Since 1999, AutomatedBuildings.com has been documenting the evolution of smart buildings, IoT, and automated systems. Over that time, we’ve accumulated a massive library of industry history stored securely on Google Storage, alongside a rich ecosystem of over 200,000 legacy emails and industry dialogues in Gmail.
Today, we’re taking the next big step. By unifying our 27-year publishing archive with Google Workspace tools and modern AI search workflows, we are turning decades of back-and-forth industry discussions, articles, and expert interviews into an accessible, intelligent resource engine. It’s not just about looking back—it’s about using our collective past to accelerate where smart buildings are going next.
Not sure that when we started automatedbuildings.com 27 years ago, this was our vision, but visions can create better-than-imagined realities.
Our original vision was to create a space in the rapidly evolving Internet of Things .com boom. We needed a marker URL to gather under
Well, here we are again, gathering in the AI craze. Everything has changed; but has it? But we have not yet reached our personal best potential, and we now have artificial intelligence superpowers. We need to share how we are using these new tools, “Superpowers,” to create the next 27 years.
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We are extremely proud of our contributing editors sharing their resources and thoughts on our new journey
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