Technology in Real Estate - Out With the Old

It's time to take legacy solutions like BacNet, Modbus,have long been abandoned by mainstream global
LonTalk, etc... out of base buildings...forever. Whilecommunications. They were abandoned because they
every other industry on the planet has standardizedare too slow and too limited in their interoperability to
around Internet Protocol (IP), and gained the benefitsbe practical.
of open communication, information exchange, andThat is why in today's "speed of business" & "on
technology that gets more functional as it becomesdemand" world... property management is still
less expensive, the real estate development andreactive, driven by individuals utilizing "paper in
property management industries have standardizedbinders" to get the job done. They don't have the
around antiquated, limited technologies that are onlytools that every other industry has.
utilized in their vertical.The returns in construction costs and long term
Walk into the headquarters of every manufacture ofoperational & energy savings are available today. The
legacy base building solutions and you will find thatIP solutions for base buildings have been around for
100% of them run their mission critical businessyears, tenants are demanding more, it's now time for
systems on an IP network with current web enabledowners to get involved and challenge the
applications. Why, because there are no Modbusconstruction industry to stop building and retrofitting
phones, no LonTalk high density storage devices, nofacilities with technologies that were obsolete before
BacNet computers etc... These solutions are based onthey were installed.
technologies (ARCnet, Token Ring, RS-232 etc...) that