January 2021 Newsletter

Free Webinar: Establish Cyber Resilience to Protect Your Smart Buildings from Threats

BACnet/SC: A Game Changer for the Building Automation Industry
Free webinar organized by Siemens with guest speakers from Cimetrics James Butler and James Lee
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
12:00PM ET / 11:00AM CST / 10:00AM MT / 9:00AM PT

For those who own, operate or design smart buildings, a new technology is being created and standardized. In our free webinar, experts will explain BACnet/SC from a technical aspect and tell you why it is a game changer for the building automation industry! Learn more and register here

Analytika Users Forum

Our next session will be on:

Thursday, March 25, 2021 11am – noon EST

Focus Topic: Utility Incentives

Learn about utility incentives for monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) programs such as Analytika, as well as other projects our clients have pursued.

As always, there will be “Fun with Graphs!” and Q&A segments to answer any questions you have about Cimetrics Analytika.

Learn more, check out the last session recap, and register for the next event

Learn Why Building Owners Loved Analytics In 2020

How does the Analytika building analytics platform and monitoring-based commissioning service help building owners manage their facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond? We sat down with the Managing Director of Analytics for Cimetrics, Hadas Webb, to answer these questions and show us examples of why building analytics was a big help to building owners last year. Learn more here

Cimetrics receives PECO Trade Ally award

For the largest energy efficiency project of 2020 (by kWh savings achieved). PECO is Pennsylvania’s largest electric and natural gas utility, delivering power to more than 1.6 million electric customers and more than 532,000 natural gas customers in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Contact us to learn how Analytika can identify opportunities for saving energy and reducing operating costs, and even help you secure financial incentives that make improvements more affordable.

Product Spotlight: BACstac/DN

We are excited to announce a new version of BACstac/DN! This is a BACnet/DN protocol stack designed for the development of BACnet-compliant Windows applications that run on the Microsoft .NET framework, including 32-bit and native 64-bit applications.

Need to develop scalable, high-performance, reliable BACnet applications? Save development time by leveraging Microsoft .NET functionality. This release of BACstac/DN 1.10 supports all required functionality of BACnet 2016 (revision 19). Learn more

Monday Live – Uncovering the New Normal in Smart Building Mondays at 3:00pm – 4:00pm EST

Check out past shows for a live weekly open conversation with industry leaders to help us get through the pandemic and prepare for a new normal in commercial buildings post-COVID. January’s discussions were:

Education and training for the Future Workforce for the Smart Buildings industry.
How to make smart buildings more attractive for the future workforce.
Discussion on jobs in the smart building sector.

Watch all the latest talk, or r egister here for next Monday Live! #MondayLive

Check out our AEE New England presentation on Energy Management Analytics

Watch a recording of the December 2020 program of the Association of Energy Engineers New England chapter meeting featuring our Managing Director of Analytics discussing the benefits, pitfalls, and best practices for a successful building analytics program. Watch the presentation here

Cybersecurity January News

Top 20 predictions of how AI will improve cybersecurity in 2021, cybersecurity investments will increase up to 10% in 2021, zero trust – a solution to many cybersecurity problems, Smart Building Cybersecurity Siemens / Cimetrics webinar, and more…

Shared Smart Building Destinies

Great discussion about the Building Automation industry. The combination of new technologies and new service delivery modes has set the stage for a significant wave of disruption in the smart building systems arena. New software technologies are leveraging diverse data from equipment and larger systems, creating the potential to unlock new operating values and user experiences for owners, occupants, and equipment suppliers.

Cimetrics Analytika is in this chain in the “Connectivity & Enablement” category and “Value Added Applications”. Read more