It seems that the building controls world never sleeps. Every day, manufacturers are sending out press releases detailing their latest products and services that are designed to make building automation systems (bas) be faster, better, smoother, and yes, more interoperable.
Internet connectivity is now very much the focus of most building controls manufacturers. Many are claiming that the new Internet technologies will change the way facilities are managed. Basically they say that the Internet could help data flow more easily from one point to another, so the appropriate personnel could retrieve meaningful data no matter where they might happen to be. And not only that, they may be able to do some overrides and commands that could alleviate a problem - or at least minimize it until someone can take care of it on site.