Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In order for the federal government to successfully implement a ...

Ethernet has become a mainstream communications protocol and sits atop the control pyramid in building automation. Recently, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defined an ...

The maturation of communications technologies and the expansion of industry standards relating to cabling systems and protocols have made facilities and IT managers hungry for a single cabling system ...

Chris Lane is the Director of Product Management for Building Automation System (BAS) products at Johnson Controls. In this role, Lane leads a team of product managers responsible for defining the ...

From mitigating labor shortages to modernizing the supply chain, the adoption of automation technology is accelerating to bridge gaps and keep large-scale facilities running effectively to meet modern ...

Penn State chose microsegmentation technology from Tempered Networks to isolate and cloak traffic from its smart-building systems, which rely on the BACnet communications protocol to share data. It ...

A panel at the 2025 Honeywell Users Group in Phoenix explored how AI, mobile credentials and integrated building systems are reshaping security operations and driving smarter, more efficient ...

Leaders of businesses large and small are asking their teams to start automating their processes and workflows. The question is, where to start? A collection of tools and processes that are the basis ...