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Cisco Six Years Later We were going to build on our strengths: expanding and enabling our partner ecosystems to create relevant solutions that will transform the workplace and built environment. - Dr. Rick Huijbregts, Vice President, Digital Transformation and Innovation, Cisco Canada

IoT-Enabled Buildings What does the future of IoT-enabled buildings look like and how do you think this will impact the role of a facility manager? - Steve Nguyen, Vice President, Product and Marketing, BuildingIQ.

VOLTTRON An agent based open-source distributed control and sensing platform for buildings, the power grid, and the integration of the two to support the deployment of energy efficiency and grid services to increase consumer benefits. - George Hernandez, Principal Technical Advisor, Buildings to Grid Integration and Buildings Controls Research Program Manager, PNNL

Sensible Building Science We are dedicated to helping building owners and managers attain comfortable and energy efficient buildings with our automated virtual occupancy metering solutions. - Stefan Storey, Ph.D. CEO, Building Scientist, Sensible Building Science

Lighting Energy Controller It is mounted overhead at the centre of a zone where it will read the zone lighting level, detect vacancy and occupancy and regulate dimmable luminaires' output between 0% and 100%, as conditioned by users. - Wayne Lye, Triangle Research Int'l

Company Exclusively Develops IoT Products We advertise ourselves as a one stop shop for IoT product development. There are a lot of steps in making a connected device, but you can't start the development process without a good plan in place. - Jeff Woodard, VP of New Business Development, Glow Labs

Using VOLTTRON At SES, we were looking for new ways to use data to broaden our impact with energy efficiency measures in buildings. VOLTTRON is an agent based open-source distributed control and sensing platform for buildings, the power grid, and the integration of the two to support the deployment of energy efficiency and grid services to increase consumer benefits. - Nigel David, BSc, MSc, Ph.D., Lead Researcher, SES Consulting Inc.

EdgeX Foundry is Vendor-Neutral, Open-Source The EdgeX platform encourages the rapidly growing community of IoT solutions providers to work together to reduce uncertainty, accelerate time to market, and facilitate scale. By using an ecosystem of existing connectivity standards and a marketplace of interoperable developer components, EdgeX will simplify IoT development and deployment for a wide variety of applications. - Matt Newton, Director of Technical Marketing, Opto 22

ENERGY STAR Going Extinct? The program has been influential in the creation of jobs in the manufacturing, energy efficiency, retrofitting, and construction industries. Conversely, eliminating ENERGY STAR may potentially generate cuts to the workforce as energy costs are not as effectively controlled, subjecting companies to higher prices due to volatility in energy markets. - Jon Moeller, President, MACH Energy

On-demand Economy Impacting Facilities Management The facilities management industry is undergoing a transformation, driven by technology, automation and the need for visibility, transparency, and intelligence. - Hugues Meyrath, Chief Product Officer, ServiceChannel

Smart Buildings 17 The event will focus on Smart Buildings and Connected Urban Environment and will attract 150 professionals from CRE, IT, FM, HR, Architecture and Design. - Tania Gonzalez, Senior Events Coordinator, Unwired

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