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Schneider Electric Launches New Service

Schneider Electric has announced a new service offer, EcoStruxure Service Plans. These enriched packages combine traditional services with powerful digital services that are tailored to pinpoint and address specific customer goals, improving performance of electrical equipment and systems.  To read…

How Connected Hotel Technology Boosts Staff Efficiency and Safety, While Cutting Operating Costs

The pandemic has taken a huge toll on hotel operations globally, with most suffering no to low occupancy for an extended period. But as travel restrictions ease, the travel industry will continue to face a massive workforce shortage, exceeding all…

Assessing Your Options for Rapid Healthcare Capacity Expansion

Construction methodolgies have advanced astronomically in recent years through the use of pre-fabricated, or pre-engineered plug and play equipment.  Nowhere is this more prevalent than in healthcare construction.  With COVID-19, we’ve seen many temporary medical space solutions be deployed rapidly. …

How Digitization Can Enable Business Critical Resiliency in Times of Crisis

They say preparation and planning breed success and this is never more true than during a time of crisis.  Unplanned events can have devastating consequences for any business – small, medium or large.  Statistics bear this out.  But, it doesn’t have to be this…

Three Steps to Secure Approval of Your Building Infrastructure Refresh Project

Facilities personnel in charge of building managment systems are often tasked with ensuring the introduction and implementation of innovative technologies.  However, achieving buy-in from executives to capital expenditures and implementation can be a challenge.  Tim Geiger, President of Stark Technologies…

Are Intelligent Building Already Here?

According to a recent article in Urban Land Magazine, they are!  According to the article, “intelligent technologies allow office towers, hotels, residences, and other building types to adjust and adapt—in real time—to their environment, their occupants, and other conditions in…

How to Manage Cybersecurity Risk in Smart Buildings

As smart buildings become more commonplace, cybersecurity is something that must be addressed during pre-construction and must be managed after commissioning. The sheer volume of data flow in an organization is simply enormous.  Schneider Electric’s, Anniock Villeneuve, recently wrote an…

How smart technology is transforming the industrial world

The power of technology is being felt throughout the industrial world and fundamentally changing value chains and production methods. The gains from building and operating a smart factory go beyond simply the production of goods. They embrace planning, supply chain logistics, and…

Maximum Security: Strategy on implementing security management in the cloud

Companies everywhere are recognizing the need for flexible and comprehensive security software. At the same time, more experts are finding the cloud to be a safe and reliable resource for managing their critical systems.  Cloud-based security management provides robust security control…

EcoStruxure™ Augmented Operator Advisor Named Product of the Year

EcoStruxure™ Augmented Operator Advisor combines contextual and local dynamic information for mobile users, enabling them to experience a fusion of the physical, real-life environment with virtual objects.  To learn more click here.