Rethinking HVAC Control: The Building Automation System Architectures of Tomorrow, Today

Welcome to our NexusCon 2024 event recordings! These recordings and slides are available for Nexus Pro Members only.

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The industry needed a different type of conference, so we built it. NexusCon 2024 was full of sponsor-free content, real-world case studies, and most importantly, our community.

We heard from 109 speakers across 24 different sessions over a span of 3 days. Although nothing beats the in-person real-time learnings from NexusCon, we are excited to release the NexusCon session recordings to our Nexus Pro Community. We have over 40 hours of hot takes, knowledge bombs, collaborations, and disagreements among smart buildings industry experts to share with you.

About the Session

The terms smart buildings, building automation, and HVAC control were all nearly synonymous in the ’90s and early 2000s. That meant that, although HVAC control was typically the most advanced system within a building, vendor lock-in and proprietary controls created the original and most robust silo of technology within a building.

Enter the Internet of Things era, with hundreds of devices other than HVAC controls coming online within a building, and suddenly the industry found itself between a rock and a hard place, striving to break down the industry norms of the decades before.

In this session we’ll be covering case studies that show the achievements and challenges of deploying modern-era HVAC controls that can bring systems together and unlock the power of the cloud. We’ll hear from:

• Kaiser Permanente and Altura on the effort of bringing Kaiser’s standalone BAS to a HIPPA-compliant enterprise system to remove vendor lock-in, improve data integrity, and increase operational efficiency. This enterprise-level system now contains over 60 buildings with 10,000+ connected devices.
• BXP on the limitations of legacy HVAC control systems such as scalability constraints, maintenance overhead, and restricted accessibility. Moving these systems to the cloud-native architectures has unlocked real-time data analytics, remote monitoring capabilities, and seamless integration with emerging IoT devices.
• 75F and Jackson Control on the importance of data integrity with a modern HVAC control system and preparing buildings for Artificial Intelligence based features.
  

This session will incorporate two World Cafe audience discussions - encouraging randomized groups of attendees to work together to unpack the case studies and develop an answer to the question: What are the key requirements for a modern HVAC Control system, and what is stopping these requirements from becoming more widely adopted?

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MSI at Scale: The Painful Truths

• Keith Collom, Kaiser Permanente
• Jim Meacham, Principal at Altura

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Journey to the Cloud: BMS Leaves the Premises

• Matthew Sexton, Director of Engineering at BXP

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The Real ROI of a BAS: It All Starts With Data

• Steven Crowe, Smart Building Platforms and AI Enablement at Jackson Control
• Deepinder Singh, Founder & CEO of 75F

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Breakout Discussion

• Sarah Katsikas, Marketing Manager at Altura

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Q&A

• Kenny Trowers, Senior Associate of Digital Buildings Lead at Syska Hennessy Group
• Keith Collom, Kaiser Permanente
• Jim Meacham, Principal at Altura
• Matthew Sexton, Director of Engineering at BXP
• Steven Crowe, Smart Building Platforms and AI Enablement at Jackson Control
• Deepinder Singh, Founder & CEO of 75F

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