It’s the heating season here in North America and that means building operators and controls contractors will soon be scrambling to ensure their heating systems are working properly. 

Energy dashboard. 

In our day-to-day work as design engineers, this term is typically used in design discussions with an owner to imply some level of building data collection and analysis. 

The control systems we use in commercial buildings today have evolved over the last 30 years to provide systems that are cost effective, and provide good performance.