In a large building, deploying a full-scale building automation system (BAS) makes sense. The size of the facility creates enough operational complexity and enough savings potential to justify the investment, and there is usually someone, or even a team of people, on the hook to run it.

When one considers deploying a BAS in smaller buildings, it rarely pencils-out. According to a recent study published by PNNL, roughly 90% of all buildings in the United States are under 50,000 square feet. Just because the buildings are smaller does not mean they don’t have opportunities for efficiency gains or wouldn’t benefit from the functionality a BAS offers the same way the large commercial spaces do.

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Each New Year brings a fresh wave of cultural predictions about what will be IN and what will be OUT. At ACE IoT we have a few of our own. We suspect that over-the-ear headphones will be IN again and that the unexpected revival of flip phones will stay in the conversation for at least one more season. We are also hopeful that long form reading will finally be IN for real this time.

In the smart building world, our number one prediction is more than a trend: Digital Commissioning is IN for 2026.

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When people think about aviation, an image that comes to mind is of the pilot in the cockpit–think Tom Cruise in Top Gun! But no mission succeeds on the strength of the pilot alone. Every flight depends on the teams on the ground who monitor systems, track signals, and help coordinate each move. Air traffic control, mission control, and their counterparts exist because no one in the cockpit can adequately divide their attention across a dozen competing priorities. If something is wrong with the flight plan for instance, pilots rely on their team to highlight an issue, resolve it, and keep the mission steady—all while the flyer stays fixed on the target ahead.

At ACE IoT, we’re bringing that same principle to Smart Building Support. Across projects and clients, we’ve seen that there are often only a couple of people (sometimes just one person!) who have a very wide range of operational technology (OT) issues they need to operate, monitor and troubleshoot. Over these past 7-years, we’ve built software tools to help small teams accomplish their goals. This year, we have launched a software-enabled service called ACE Ground Control to provide even greater support for facilities teams working to implement, support and operate smart building applications.

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