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Your Building Automation System Is Part of Your Attack Surface. And Threat Actors Know It.

2025-12-31T07:53:29+00:00Categories: Cybersecurity, Master Systems Integration, News and Information|Tags: , , , , , |

Why recent cybersecurity incidents are forcing enterprise owners to rethink building systems security. Your buildings are connected—but are they protected? Is your BAS cybersecurity posture reactive or proactive? Over the past few years, cybersecurity incidents have made one thing clear: Building Automation Systems (BAS) are no longer isolated operational tools. They are enterprise digital assets. And increasingly, are enterprise [...]

Delivering Energy Performance & Streamlined Controls: The MSI Approach

2025-11-28T13:49:01+00:00Categories: Analytics, Cybersecurity, Master Systems Integration|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Why Your Building Systems Aren’t Working Together—And What to Do About It Unlocking energy, cybersecurity, and performance outcomes with a smarter building systems integration model As buildings get smarter, many enterprise organizations—especially in healthcare—are finding that their systems, well, aren’t. HVAC, lighting, metering, nurse call systems, emergency power… they’re often siloed, misaligned, and deployed without a strategy for how [...]

Haystack Connect 2025: Takeaways on AI, Ontologies & the Future of Building Intelligence

2025-11-28T13:49:08+00:00Categories: Analytics, Corporate Sustainability, Cybersecurity, Energy Efficiency|Tags: , , , |

If AI was the buzzword of 2024, then 2025 is proving to be the year that the building automation and smart systems community began to move from hype to application. This year’s Haystack Connect conference confirmed a clear shift: from conceptual digital twin aspirations toward the tangible promise of automated tagging, ontology integration, and the real use of AI [...]

Practical Decarbonization: UC Irvine’s Three-Decade Journey to a Smarter, Greener Campus

2025-11-28T13:49:13+00:00Categories: Analytics, Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Master Systems Integration, Sustainability|Tags: , , , |

Overview At the 2025 IDEA Campus Energy Conference in Boston, we joined leaders from across the campus energy spectrum, taking to the stage with our long-time client UC Irvine (UCI), and our professional partners Black & Veatch, to share an in-depth look at UCI’s long-term, practical approach to decarbonization. Our presentation—“Practical Decarbonization: UC Irvine’s Three-Decade Journey”—offered a rare, honest [...]

Strategies for Making Existing Buildings More Energy Efficient (Video)

2025-11-28T13:52:42+00:00Categories: Analytics, Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Master Systems Integration, News and Information, Performance Delivery, Sustainability|

Maximizing existing building energy performance with real-time data Fresh off an incredible experience at #Verge2023, one of Altura's principals and environmental programs leader, Ryan Gaylord, engaged in a captivating conversation with our friend James Darius Ball at GreenBiz. They explored the current state of affairs in sustainable energy tactics and how Altura continues to approach decarbonization harnessing real-time data [...]

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