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Which maintenance style is the best fit for your organization?.

Get to know our Switchers as we share our journeys in the smart building industry and what it’s like working at Switch! .

Get to know our Switchers as we share our journeys in the smart building industry and what it’s like working at Switch! .

Striking a balance between data interpretability and accuracy of black box models and the Switch solution.

Tell us about your role at Switch.

As we move into the new year, Switch CEO Deb Noller highlights emerging PropTech industry megatrends, and we examine how these will impact our experience of the built world.

Get to know our Switchers as we share our journeys in the smart building industry and what it’s like working at Switch! .

Our solutions ensure compliance, resilience and transparency to navigate the new normal of uncertainty.

Get to know our Switchers as we share our journeys in the smart building industry and what it’s like working at Switch! .

With companies and governments making ambitious pledges at COP26, there has undoubtedly been a recent uptick around the climate risk narrative and drive towards sustainability as part of the ESG discourse.

One of the driving forces behind our work at Switch is decreasing the environmental impact of commercial buildings amid the climate crisis.

We are excited to announce the release of our new Switch Platform navigation! In collaboration with our clients, users and Switch product team we have redesigned the Switch Platform menu to more closely align with how users navigate the Platform in their daily workflows.

In our introductory session of this three-part webinar series, Switch Automation Chief Operating Officer Derek Harnett and RESET® President Stanton Wong engage in a panel discussion on using the RESET data standard for measuring indoor air quality.

By connecting Switch Dx³ to the Pikes Peak Summit Complex, BranchPattern can now remotely monitor system performance.

For INWED, we’re putting the spotlight on our female engineers, asking what they love about their roles and what advice they have for aspiring female engineers.

Switch CFO Suellen Thompson is planting thousands of trees to provide a habitat for the endangered koala population of New South Wales.

Switch Dx3 now features a brand new interface, making building network scans easier to understand for new and experienced users alike.

In honor of EWeek, we’re putting the spotlight on some of our building engineers, asking why they think engineering is important, what they love about their roles and how they feel about our industry.

Switch Product Lead does her part to regenerate the natural habitat in her local Australian community, helping plant 1,000 trees.

Despite the adversity of the ongoing pandemic, we believe its crucial to find the positives of 2020, particularly as Thanksgiving approaches for our Denver team.

Here are five key steps to futureproofing buildings with investments that will deliver value and prepare your organization for further top line growth.

IBcon 2020 was a hybrid-style event that mirrored the realities of running real estate business today.

Smart building solutions are driven by data and analytics, so it’s crucial to know who actually owns your building performance and usage data.

Switch Dx³ offers ESCOs a new tool for transparency, monitoring and verification of project performance across the entire business portfolio.

As the property market faces an increasingly uncertain future, there really is no better time to start proactively offsetting the risk of devaluation.

Switch is proud to announce the launch of our first smart building suite in Asia, a 39-story premium Grade A office asset with ancillary retail at the heart of central Singapore.

Switch participated in a virtual roundtable discussion at CRETech 2020 about how data-driven sustainability increases resilience and profitability.

With commercial buildings' inherent ability to spread disease and the lack of meaningful insight into their occupancy, these spaces have come to resemble ‘vertical cruise ships’ now more than ever.

Switch’s new online training center provides Platform announcements, user guides and educational resources to aid our customers’ and partners’ smart building journeys.

Is the Switch Platform a BMS? Switch is a software layer that connects to building systems, devices, third party systems and edge devices for improved asset management across a portfolio.

Switch Workspaces translate your portfolio’s data sets and queries into valuable, actionable visualizations for corporate reporting, lobby screens or change management efforts.

Switch Build gives immediate visibility into points and tagging across entire portfolios, while speeding up the onboarding process and making integration more consistent.

Smart building programs drive revenue and often pay for themselves in energy savings and lowered utility bills.

In part 4 of this blog series discussing smart building tech’s role in times of crisis, we explained how to adapt your building operations for sites that remain occupied even during an emergency.

For buildings that are still occupied during a lockdown, here are some recommendations from the Switch engineers and other industry experts to consider.

We rounded up 10 practical and agile steps to adapt your building operations for sites that have reduced or no occupancy.

This month marks the 50th Earth Day, and to celebrate, we’re taking a look at how the ongoing lockdown has reduced carbon consumption around the world.

Harnessing remote analysis, reporting and control, here are the top 3 reasons that smart building tech is absolutely crucial when disaster strikes.

Global crises demand streamlined operations as millions face hardship and property value comes under pressure.

Switch is pleased to announce a new partnership with lead investor Gaw Capital and that our $5M Series A2 round of fundraising is now closed.

Switch Automation moves their Denver office headquarters into The Alliance Center.

It's been an exciting month for Switch Automation with two prominent industry recognitions from independent research analyst Verdantix and the Solar Impulse Foundation.

Take a look back on some of the key PropTech breakthroughs of the past decade, from the proliferation of IoT tech, to smart cities becoming a reality, to co-working changing the workplace forever.

Switch Automation take an enterprise IT approach to fixing broken buildings by helping portfolio managers evolve their disconnected, inefficient assets into technology-enabled smart buildings.

Here are Switch's most inspiring takeaways from MIPIM PropTech NYC 2019.

Check out these 5 can't-miss sessions at MIPIM PropTech 2019.

Verdantix Benchmark Reveals Seven Leaders In The Highly Competitive IoT Platforms For Smart Buildings Market.

The Switch Platform integrates with commercial building portfolios via the Switch IoT Gateway, data mapping and APIs.

Switch CEO Deb Noller paints a picture of the real estate industry’s technological transformation and how companies must adapt to stay competitive.

Property investors now want to see climate change as a quantifiable cost, and we left the GRESB events with a strong sense of how financial projection and climate change are beginning to collide.

We explore the day-to-day activities of three Switch engineers to demonstrate how they create scalable optimization opportunities that aren’t possible with a legacy FM approach.

This final part of our green building certification series investigates the financial, organizational and occupant-related benefits of investing in green certification.

Last week Switch sent our largest ever event team to IBcon 2019, real estate’s most comprehensive conference focused on smart buildings.

The right smart building platform supports green building certification, whether you’re embarking on retro-commissioning, continuous commissioning or certification interfacing.

Heading to Nashville for the biggest real estate conference of the year? Be sure to attend these 7 key IBcon 2019 sessions to make the most of your trip.

Make the most of your time in Nashville by attending one of the IBcon 2019 pre-conference events.

These days, a number of green certifications and programs exist, each with its own focus area and sustainability goals.

In this third and final installment of the series we discuss how a well-executed smart building program can ensure airtight CRE cybersecurity throughout your portfolio.

Completing a site audit will create a foundation for your cybersecurity strategy and further investment into a scalable smart building program.

The GRESB Data Quality Assessment is paving the path to digital facilities management for the CRE industry.

An open letter to technology professionals on International Women's Day 2019 from Switch Automation CEO Deb Noller including open jobs at Switch!.

Is IoT technology to blame for the recent onslaught of CRE cybersecurity breaches, or are these vulnerabilities often pre-existing and undetected?.

Effective data collection and storage empowers commercial real estate teams to get actionable insights into building performance and improve their bottom line.

Discover how this year will bring several ‘coming of age’ moments for the industry with Switch CEO’s 2019 CRE megatrends predictions.

What is predictive facilities management and is it the way of the future for commercial real estate? Switch CEO, Deb Noller weighs in.

More than 575 facilities management (FM) professionals came together at Melbourne’s Grand Hyatt on 15 November to celebrate the 2018 FM Industry Awards for Excellence.

CoRE Tech 2018 focuses on how data and technology are transforming the way we manage buildings.

Deciding on which building software and mobile app your organization should use is a complex task.

Deb Noller knows opportunity when she sees it.

Our team shares five core practices derived from IBCON's Connectivity of Things panel to drive optimal portfolio performance.

In this post we revisit one of our favorite sessions of IBCon 2018, highlighting IT and OT convergence through the eyes of two visionary leaders at Oxford Properties.

The Switch team returned from IBCon 2018, a cornerstone gathering of the commercial and corporate real estate, facilities and technology industries, with fresh insights and fond memories.

Switch was recently invited to attend Panasonic CityNOW, a visionary smart city project from the Japanese electronics corporation in partnership with the City of Denver.

From exclusive happy hours to pre-conference workshops, check out 8 tips to maximize the IBCon 2018 experience.

This Mission Innovation group is filled with powerful government representatives; brilliant in their fields but, sadly, accustomed to electoral cycles, negotiation and lobbying.

Mission Innovation 3 kicked off with Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist who was among the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe.

Switch CEO, Deb Noller, is in Malmö, Sweden this week to participate in global clean energy discussions with some of the most respected minds in the world.

A vibrant range of international thought leaders are about to descend on Malmö, Sweden.

Following Earth Week 2018, we were inspired to investigate America’s waste management practices in the office.

To honor Earth Day 2018, we decided to do some research into the average American's journey to the office and brainstorm ideas that visionary leaders can share to encourage employees to commute more sustainably.

In our third and final post of this series, we show you how to navigate broken buildings and the path to success.

In this second installation of our three-part series, we examine broken buildings and the hierarchy of needs that operators face when managing them.

The latest Switch Automation news, including our three new smart building platform products, two awards and refreshed website.

Here we examine broken buildings and the power of people who manage them.

Deb Noller, 2017 Chancellor’s Award Recipient Deborah Noller is the CEO and co-founder of Switch Automation, a company which utilizes the Internet of Things to collect, process and manage data for portfolios of buildings.

If you’re anything like us, you love to have a play around with data.

Verdantix continuously analyses the surge of technology innovation aimed at helping facility managers unlock additional value within their building portfolios.

Companies that are on the path to creating a smart building portfolio have lots of valid questions.

According to the Verdantix annual survey of 250 energy and facility decision-makers, 17% of firms continue to separate energy and asset management processes, 58% use energy management to inform asset management, while the remaining 25% of firms have fully integrated energy and asset management.

Five key megatrends are shaping the way technology is used to improve the performance of commercial real estate portfolios, according to Switch Automation chief executive Deb Noller.