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5 Ways IoT (Internet of Things) Enabled Devices has Reshaped Smart Building Automation
The number of IoT enabled devices grew by 8 percent in 2021 and is projected to increase by another 22 percent up to 2025 according to market research platform IoT Analytics. This equates to around 27 billion devices. IoT spans industries, from manufacturing and...
Retrofitting a building management system
As a facilities or building manager of a hospital, hotel or office park, it may fall to you to oversee the retrofitting of a Building Management System (BMS) in your building or facility. We’ll look at how to choose a system that is compatible with the existing...
Carbon Dioxide monitoring in buildings
Carbon Dioxide monitors in buildings are a critical tool in ensuring the comfort and productivity of occupants through better air quality. What is Carbon Dioxide? Most people have heard that increasing levels of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere are causing climate...
Tridium Niagara building management systems
In South Africa, you do not have to look any further than Tridium Niagara building management systems as supplied by ACS, which is a Tridium Platinum Distributor for 2022. When managing a commercial, residential or industrial facility many factors need to be...
Cleanroom Monitors for confined spaces
The Greystone CR3A cleanroom monitors are used for the accurate and reliable monitoring of confined spaces. Most cleanrooms are used for manufacturing products such as electronics, pharmaceutical products, and medical equipment. In this article, we’ll take a closer...
EliteDali lighting control in smart buildings
Who is Elitedali? Elitedali develop and innovate smart lighting solutions. Elitedali™ is a certified Niagara Developer Partner committed to developing and innovating convergent, smart and open interoperable standards based IoT products. Niagara System...
Quality HVAC sensors are crucial for accuracy and stability
HVAC sensors are crucial when designing a new HVAC system or improving an older system. The importance of accurate monitoring cannot be underestimated. Because of this, sensor accuracy and consistency of readings play a significant role in the success of the system....
Battery Energy Storage Systems
Battery Energy Storage Systems In future, there will be more demand for electricity storage facilities such as the Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme where water is pumped up the escarpment during lower consumption periods and flows back down generating hydro-electric...
The Evolution of HVAC – Part 3
As we saw in the last article, the HVAC industry came of age in 1906 when a textile engineer, Stuart Cramer, first used the term air-conditioning. The developments in HVAC still had a long way to go however. In fact, at this point in time, the first residential unit...
The Evolution of HVAC – Part 2
Last month we learnt about the history of HVAC from our neolithic ancestors to around the end of the eighteenth century. As we saw, the eighteenth century saw scientific discoveries and inventions, as well as technological improvements, really taking off. Now let us...
