It’s Too Hot to Finish Anything

If you are on the East Coast, you know it’s too hot today. It’s one of those days that drives power grids crazy. It’s one of those days that keeps HVAC guys hopping. It’s one of those days in which the green guys fiddle furtively with their thermostats. It’s in the high double 90’s (temperature and humidity) at 10:45 at night. It’s hot.

It was hot last night as I pretended to sleep. It’ll be hotter tomorrow, but at least 4 degrees. It’s hot

What follows is a bunch of titles that I thought maybe I’d write. But the porch where I write it still too hot.

From Point Service to Enterprise Service
From Point Service to Building Informatics
Why Grid CIM for homes is a bad idea
From Control to Orchestration
From Closed to Open
From Integratable to Interoperable
From System to Service
From Hygiene to Asset
From Expense to Benefit
Uncontrollable and Invisible to Responsive and Visible

I may yet write these articles. You can vote on your favorite title and make me write it sooner.

But tonight, it’s too hot.

New Daedalus

Daedalus designed buildings, automated statues, and built wings for human flight. Daedalus worked by eye and hand, his designs scratched with a stylus on wax tablets. Until recently, we merely perfected his means of work, using better pens, and paper, and finally drawing on computers.

It is only recently that we have begun to leave the methods of Daedalus behind.

Simulations and digital twins guide each decision. Intelligence, or at least behaviors, imbue each system and device. Cyberphysical systems replace household servants and chauffeurs, operate factories, and manage energy logistics. The most pressing concerns are how intelligent systems and buildings will respond to us, and to each other.