Building APIs Blog
Nest Labs Reaches for a New Market
Posted on 04-22-2013
Nest, based in Palo Alto, Calif., is led by Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive with a stellar pedigree, having helped bring the iPod and iPhone into the world.He and co-founder Matt Rogers recruited an A-list team of alumni not only from Apple, but also Google, Microsoft, Logitech and elsewhere.The venture backers were Valley blue chips including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Google Ventures.The product was undeniably cool – a so-called learning thermostat, elegantly designed, and infused with artificial intelligence smarts.
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Welcome to the new Panoptix Developer forum!
Posted on 04-08-2013
Register and create profile, or Login.(This account is separate from the account that you currently use to access your API Dashboard.To access your dashboard, you’ll now select API Dashboard at the top of the screen and log in.)
Check out some of the site how to resources:What is Follow?What are bookmarks?
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Panoptix App Developer Program: What APIs would you like to see
Posted on 03-08-2013
At last November’s launch, the Panoptix App Developer Program provided building and meter APIs.Earlier this year we added AHU and VAV APIs.In the near future we will announce the availability of a Utility Bill API.We will continue to expand the API set to meet the needs of our partners.This could be additional HVAC equipment, weather stations, or other entities involved in building efficiency.
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Panoptix Increases Building Efficiency API Count to 10
Posted on 01-13-2013
Johnson Controls launched Panoptix last year to offer developers a set of tools and APIs that encourage development in the building efficiency space.Developers took their first shot at the Panoptix suite of APIs at Hack-City SF.Panoptix continues to garner attention to its platform, and further enhanced the offering with four new APIs.Panoptix launched with building, space, and meter data APIs; now, the platform added AHU, VAV, and HVAC data.The Panoptix team has
The platform represents yet another step in Johnson Controls’ 125 year history of enabling efficiency in the building industry.
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The Building Energy Cloud Platform, Apps Included : Greentech Media
Posted on 12-19-2012
We’ve been covering a flurry of technology partnerships on the smart grid-smart buildings front as of late -- demand response from Schneider Electric and IPKeys, building energy efficiency from EnerNOC and SCIenergy, and building data analytics from IBM, Honeywell and SkyFoundry among them.Indeed, pretty much every big building controls vendor has a cloud-based platform to back up their service-based energy services contracting (ESCO) work, with names like Schneider’s StruxureWare, Honeywell’s Attune, Siemens’ Apogee, and the like venturing into the space.Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls rolled out its own platform last year, called Panoptix, which mirrored its competitors’ platforms in tying together the heterogeneous, largely legacy technology of lots and lots of building control systems into an enterprise management and controls architecture of some kind.But Johnson Controls has also opened up its Panoptix platform in some interesting ways.The latest this month is a new applications developer program, aimed at inviting third-party software into...
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StruxureWare
Posted on 12-19-2012
Today, executives are being pressured to conserve resources while maximizing productivity; but, you cant manage what you cant see.Rising energy costs, economic uncertainty, and environmental challenges exacerbate the problem.Creating an Efficient Enterprise™ is paramount, but how?StruxureWare™ software is a unique platform of applications and suites that gives you visibility into energy and other resource use across your organization.Control rising energy costs; meet reporting obligations; keep stakeholders informed and engaged.
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Lucid Partners With Honest Buildings : Greentech Media
Posted on 12-19-2012
Honest Buildings is a free platform that connects the wide world of real estate, but it’s not necessarily all about energy.Honest Buildings is like LinkedIn for the real estate market, connecting building owners, architects, engineers, contractors and other building services.While energy efficiency is one facet of building performance, a new partnership with Lucid will help bring energy information to the forefront.“This kind of transparency changes the building performance market the way LEED changed the construction market,” said Andrew deCoriolis, director of marketing at Lucid.Lucid will first post real-time energy and water usage for buildings that are using Lucid’s technology.
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Lucid Launches Building Dashboard Software on the Panoptix Platform by Johnson Controls
Posted on 12-19-2012
Lucids Building Dashboard® is among the first building energy management apps launched on the Panoptix® building efficiency platform.By making Lucid’s advanced, real-time energy display technology available to its commercial customers, Johnson Controls is enabling them to put proven, energy-saving tools compatible with its energy-management products in the hands of building owners and managers.Using the Panoptix API, Lucid taps into the real-time data feed from Panoptix to transform raw energy consumption data into visually engaging widgets and graphical representations that engage building occupants, motivate behavior change, and give building managers continuous insight into energy-saving opportunities.The Panoptix cloud-based solution allows other companies to access building energy information and develop tools that customers can add to their energy management toolkit easily and at low cost.The release of Panoptix marks another major step as major automation and building technology companies move toward putting data in the cloud and making available open systems that third...
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GSA, IBM, Partners Take on Big Building Energy Analytics : Greentech Media
Posted on 12-19-2012
A federal project to tie 50 buildings into a sensored, enterprise-level-managed platform gets underway.Jeff St.John, Katherine Tweed: October 19, 2012
The U.S.has vast room for improvement when it comes to capturing energy efficiency in buildings, and the federal government knows it.
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Making An Impact On Environment With Building Management APIs
Posted on 12-17-2012
I had a chance to talk with the Johnson Controls, Panoptix API team this last week. The Panoptix® community offers: a combination of software and services that easily and cost-effectively helps customers see more so they can do more to achieve optimized building performance and energy efficiency To understand what Panoptix enables...imagine if all of our buildings: Thought for themselves Teach us to reduce energy consumption Diagnose problems in real-time Self correct when necessary Call a service provider when they need repair or tuning Panoptix starts with a cloud-hosted platform that enables buildings to collect and manage data, along with tools for automating operations at the building and space levels providing metering for electricity, water, gas oil steam, carbon and weather--with very granular level reporting up to overall trends of energy use. To grow Panoptix, Johnson Controls introduced a marketplace of apps combined with supporting news, information, resources and entire community...
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