Season 1, Episode 3: For the Birds (w/ Andrew Tanskey)

In Act 1, Tyler tells a building story comparing the success of games during the early days of the smartphone App Stores - and in particular Angry Birds - with the adoption of early smart building services use cases in our more connected environment. He focuses on the promise of building analytic platforms that help facility managers optimize energy, maintenance and comfort with proactive insights from building automation data. He asks: when will these practices be commonplace, and what makes a data analytic platform great? In Act 2, we are joined by Andrew Tanskey, Regional Services Manager for Schneider Electric's US Northeast and Midwest Regions. Andrew makes it known that analytic services aren't just about saving energy and generating traditional ROI measures, but to protect us against the oncoming shifting demographics of the facility management industry. He encourages system decision-makers to consider the benefits of a happier, healthier, and more productive workforce that leverages data to make better and more prioritized decisions. Andrew uses deft analogies between buildings and the human body as well, while also sharing powerful statistics like "~80% of current building data goes unused." He shares with us the most dangerous phrase in the English language, and characteristics to consider when selecting a data analysis platform to use such as "Managed Services" vs. "Rules-Based". Through emphasizing the benefits that allowing data to work for us can bring to our own lives in terms of experience, fulfillment, and acknowledgement of a job well done, Andrew takes data and ties it directly into the human obstacles it looks to help us tackle. Outro Music: "Jeannie Becomes a Mom" by Caroline Rose