🎧 #131: Google's BOS Program & Creating Software-Defined Buildings

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“To really operate a building at scale, you need to be able to know what's happening across everything in that building at any one time and manage it in the same way you would a smartphone. Everything end to end in the building needs to be managed in a way that's much more IT-focused as opposed to OT. And so coming up with complete management of that is really important and that's where it leads onto software-defined buildings."

—Kathy Farrington

My Highlights

• Kathy’s background (3:00)
• Technology stacks (5:55)
• Review and status of Google’s smart buildings program (8:06)
• Overview of the portfolio (12:46)
• SBC conference keynote - Kathy's main message to the industry (14:51)
• History of the BOS concept (17:52)
• Status of implementation (25:31)
• Lessons learned in recent new buildings projects (26:56)
• The device fleet management concept and software-defined buildings (30:23)
• Update on the application layer (38:10)
• Update on the ontology effort (44:09)
• Carveouts (45:06)

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