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resilience, do you believe?


Seeking out the closest spot to the door of the office was not a common practice; however, at 07:00 on August 24th, 2022 the temperature was already 96' and 98% humidity.  The building would have a hell of a time keeping up today, rolling black-outs and brown-outs would be inevitable.  It likely won't be an outright equipment shut-down, instead we will have to endure the impending "brown-out" conditions, a slow, low voltage and high amperage stressing of our electrical infrastructure and connected systems.



Our deliberate and continuous leverage of Industrial IoT (IIoT) technology and the companion AI prescriptive models have positioned us well. It had to be around the year 2018 when we invested in IIoT.  Heck, most were comparing our endeavors to the "Nest" thermostat, a pioneer (yet very fundamental) entrée into home-based IoT.  Naysayers were laughing that we would never see the benefits; however, our fragile National infrastructure and Mother Nature suffering from severe schizophrenia, our building had become quite resilient.  While many shutter at the thought, mostly due to the increased use of robots in society, this brick and mortar shell sustains a life-like living and breathing organism.  We shifted our efforts from controlling and maintaining isolated systems; to focusing on undiscovered symmetry within the facility. 



Sure, folks in 2018 were yammering about resilience, and we proudly talked about our contingencies and bypasses, yet our focus was way too narrow.  Who could of imagined the roller-coaster of changing conditions in 2022, facilities have become proficient in "bobbing and weaving".  Innovation and unpredictable natural disasters makes us thankful that years ago we looked at the building as just "sensors and actuators".  As you gaze in the evening sky searching for the "ring around the moon", don't think for one moment that a storm is not brewing.  The only question you should have is, are you, your operations, and customers truly positioned for the era of resiliency?



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