“The industry needs to get together to integrate or at least educate all of the people that are involved. The owner cannot integrate the industry, the architect cannot integrate the industry, the industry must integrate itself and take the lead … .” That comment came from a participant in CABA’s commercial office focus group. What is holding back the widespread acceptance of the intelligent building? This is a question that the CABA Intelligent Buildings Roadmap (IBR) project set out to answer. This project was started in early 2006, as a follow up to the well-respected CABA “Technology Roadmap” document which was released in 2002 and is often referenced in the industry.
The IBR project has been backed by a large group of organizations, including Cisco Systems, Direct Energy, ESC Automation/Delta Controls, Johnson Controls, HID Corporation, Honeywell International, Tridium, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Wattstopper / Legrand North America, Lutron Electronics, Panduit Corp., Siemens Building Technologies, TAC, Trane, and InfoComm International. Our firm, the Building Intelligence Group, was selected to research and write the report, which has now been completed.