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