The futurist William Gibson once said, “The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed.” When this notion is applied to the building industry, it couldn’t be more true.
While the residential sector has embraced IoT in the form of smart homes (everything from virtual assistants to smart lights), the commercial and industrial building sectors have been much slower to adopt IoT and smarter building controls. Taking a look at what has been holding these sectors back, we can see clear themes developing.