Another day, another propriety progression?
As some of you may have noticed, I have posted about a number of smart building ladder-like progressions that I have seen including the Horizontal Smart Ready > Smart > Intelligent > Genius one from Hoare Lea in 2022:
https://lnkd.in/epuziVA8
Others are horizontal and even diagonal having been mapped on to an XY axis like the one below. The term(s) Smart Ready or Readiness is/are often used, but confusingly not always in the same place in each diagram - hence my recent poll about whether there was any common agreement about the term(s):
https://lnkd.in/eX3xExH8
This will probably be my last post about these diagrams now until there is some common agreement about the terms and stages. It's just that I have come to the conclusion, that the lack of alignment with all these solo content marketing efforts is serving to confuse rather than edify the market.
Maybe CIBSE will provide clarity around the terms Smart and Intelligent Buildings, but whether that will result in any common agreement given the diverse and growing number of stakeholders involved and impacted by 'smart' remains to be seen.
However, I am glad to see the distinction between Efficient and Effective buildings being made below and not least given I have been banging on about it for several months now and even written about in Smart Buildings Magazine and discussed it on a panel at their Smart Buildings Show that I have also written about:
https://lnkd.in/enKGYK-V
https://lnkd.in/eQ-jkTVP
Huge thanks to Giovanna Jagger at the IWBI (WELL) for pointing out this distinction out on both panel I faciliated and as part of round table I curated last summer (credit given where due).
Whether that Efficiency/Effecttiveness distinction maps neatly onto an XY axis as part of a progression is probably one for a discussion that compares and contrasts the plethora of other ones, as is what any agreed progression actually represents, e.g. technology, functionality, ROI, etc.
Have to say, pesonally I am not completely sure that Intelligent Buildings is a useful term any longer though. It is pre-'smart' legacy term that started to emerge including in titles of books from academics and practitioners in the 90s when most Smart Building initiatives were driven from the bottom up by technology manufactures, engineers and building contractors... as ex-Arup consultant Jim Read and I co-wrote about in another article for Smart Buildings Mag:
https://lnkd.in/equezVb6
I mention this because not only is Jim is a co-author of a book from the 90s with the term Intelligent Buildings in it, but because I wonder whether it makes sense to try to breathe new life into that term given its history and particularly as a destination for where 'smart' is progressing to rather than from where it has evolved from.
FYI Brahm Lategan Mark Lawrance Michael Przytula et al who have been discussing this latest progression that had popped up in my feed.
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5yAndrew, huge thanks for taking the time to have this conversation and for your input on the book I have co-written with Lazar Dzamic: https://bit.ly/2qlbS2P Andrew's Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media book is published this month by SAGE: https://amzn.to/2tF4MIV You can read a slightly edited and more linear version of this conversation in an article format here on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/prof-andrew-mcstay-emotional-ai-justin-kirby/