Building Design & Operations

BACnet/IP: The Universal Translator Your Building Can’t Function Without TL;DR:BACnet/IP is the language your building’s brain uses to keep systems talking — HVAC, leak detection, alarms, the whole circus. You don’t notice it… until it stops working and everything goes sideways. ⸻ Picture this: you walk into a shiny, state-of-the-art facility. There’s HVAC humming. Alarms…

4-20 mA: The Most Boring Electrical Signal You Can’t Live Without TL;DR:It’s not exciting. It’s not wireless. But 4-20 mA loops quietly tell your control systems exactly what’s happening — pressure, temperature, gas levels, you name it — and they’ve been doing it longer than most engineers have been alive. ⸻ There’s a special place…