In this episode, Martin reconnects with Chris Böttger from Cisco to talk about what has happened in the last 6 months with the global pandemic of COVID19 and how this is already effecting the design, usage and performance expectations of buildings. Chris gives a fascinating insight into how system collaboration and user experience will play a key role in the health and safety of employees in the future.

In this episode our three reporters meet with Jules Cordillot from Schneider Electric who explains how the Energy Performance in Buildings Directive (EPBD) has been updated and what this means for both building owners and technology providers when it comes to energy management, control and monitoring of the system. We also get to learn from Jules about the European Green Deal and how this will effect the standards and designs of infrastructure in the future

In this episode Martin and Kevin take the IoT discussion to the topic of security and High Availability Server protection and disaster recovery. A critical topic when talking about the internet, is the safety and above all the recovery of data that is used on a daily basis. Failure to protect these data systems and have backup and recovery systems in place, can lead to crippling and devastating consequences for individuals and business. Martin has an in-depth interview with a UK located company called OpenMinds, who are specialists in the field of High Availability and disaster recovery clustering in cloud, hybrid cloud, on-premise or datacenter. We learn how these systems can instantaneously recover systems that have crashed, been hacked or suffered data loss.

In this 2nd episode Martin interviews Chris Boettger from Cisco. With a vast amount of experience, originally in BMS and then AV and networking and now as Americas Workplace Experience Strategy for Webex Devices at Cisco, Chris gives us an amazing insight as to the potential future the way our buildings will be connected, operated and designed. With examples of both real life today and future use cases, Chris is able to paint a picture of how potentially the IT and OT worlds will combine, to really start delivering IoT across our infrastructure.

In this first episode Martin interviews Paul Whittingham from Schneider Electric. An expert in the field of Building Management systems and in particular the development of analytical software, to provide the user with real time information as to how their building is performing. Through Pauls insight you are able to understand how this technology has been developed and the future that it holds.