Dive Summary:

• The days of the “smart” building are soon gone. Rather, Honeywell Building Solutions (HBS) wants to turn smart buildings into “social” buildings by introducing Facebook-style social media products to enhance the real time info exchange about on-site energy use and efficiency opportunities.
• The technology will report energy-use data on specific building equipment, areas and time frames, provide alerts when energy thresholds are crossed and allow energy management through the social network tool.
• “These buildings are not static objects. They are constantly changing,” said Datta Godbole, Vice-President of Engineering and Chief Technology office for HBS. A malfunction or skewed setting can significantly hamper the energy efficiency of a boiler, for example. And “wasting energy is wasting money,” Godbole said.

From the article:
"HBS’s ‘social building’ solutions will entail a Command Center application – backed by a Honeywell analyst support team – and two-way communications to connect facility management teams both to Honeywell analytics experts and energy end-users. The latter will be able to report environmental conditions – too hot, too cold – directly to the facility via mobile device."