June 18, 2012: Building Energy Management Now Leveraging Cloud-Based Services
BOULDER, Colo. — Technologies that make buildings smarter and more energy efficient continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Many of the new products and services center on the data that buildings produce in real time. Buildings have been producing volumes of data for many years, but today, according to a new white paper from Pike Research, many companies are starting to leverage the cloud as the basis for software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings.
Virtually every leading name in the building services industry has recently launched some form of building energy management system that hosts and manages building data in the cloud, the firm finds.