Enterprise Interaction

Enterprise Interactions for Physical Security

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As promised a week ago, here are some scenarios for physical security systems interacting with enterprise systems, and even through the enterprise to other enterprise-enabled buildings systems.Hotels, Customer Service and Energy

Hotels put a lot of effort into their customer relationship management. Building space, if well operated, cost the same in similar cities. Beds are beds, as long as they are clean. Hotels compete for customer loyalty to develop preferences that make the consumer check their hotel chain first rather than merely going to hotels.com.

The vision of Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG.org) includes rooms that respond automatically to the customers...

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Enterprise Integrated Security

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It’s all too easy to get caught up in energy this year. It is easy to forget that energy was only one of the reasons I was drawn to enterprise interactions for building systems. There are compelling reasons to integrate physical security systems with enterprise systems and their techniques. Physical security is typically broken up into three areas; access control, intrusion detection, and monitoring. These systems rarely interact unless installed by the same vendor, and even then, significant integration may be required.

Security is not about locking the door; security is about responding the right way at the right time. The true core of security is situation awareness.

Last week, I was awakened in hotel by a couple letting themselves into...

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Divvying Up Grid Interoperability

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The NIST Grid Interoperability Workgroups began by splitting into work groups along traditional market segments. I think the initial cuts (I2G, B2G, H2G&V, T&D) (Industry, Building, Home (and vehicle) to Grid, and Transmission & Distribution) were necessary, I think keeping them makes it far too easy to pave the cow paths, to streamline existing market models while allowing minimal room for new markets to develop. As I look across the groups, they feel to me as if they are split up incorrectly. The home deserves the same DR possibilities as does the office. A hospital may want the same grid information as does the data center. The privacy liability incurred by the utility developing intimate knowledge of the home operations may be as great as they would incur in a bank.
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