The Blog

Understanding the difference between predictive vs preventive maintenance
Which maintenance style is the best fit for your organization?.

The Cost Of Doing Nothing For The Built Environment
Determining the cost of change management and value creation in digital transformation of the built environment .

What is the difference between Black box solutions and Switch?
Striking a balance between data interpretability and accuracy of black box models and the Switch solution.

PropTech Megatrends: Factors Shaping Our Built Environment in 2022
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.

How Data-Driven Sustainability Increases Building Resilience and Profitability
Our solutions ensure compliance, resilience and transparency to navigate the new normal of uncertainty.

The Value of Green Financing for the Built World
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.

Leveraging RESET® for Healthy and Sustainable Buildings
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.

Celebrating our building engineers on U.S. National Engineering Week
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 helps regenerate local Australian habitat | #SwitchItUpForGood
Switch Product Lead does her part to regenerate the natural habitat in her local Australian community, helping plant 1,000 trees.

Why people, culture and a shared purpose keep Switch thankful in 2020
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.

How your smart building architecture can ensure your facilities remain an asset – not a liability
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: Crisis and new opportunities in real estate
IBcon 2020 was a hybrid-style event that mirrored the realities of running real estate business today.

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

A software Platform to enhance efficiency, transparency and coordination for your service contracts
Switch Dx³ offers ESCOs a new tool for transparency, monitoring and verification of project performance across the entire business portfolio.

Surviving the crash: Offsetting asset devaluation after a global crisis
As the property market faces an increasingly uncertain future, there really is no better time to start proactively offsetting the risk of devaluation.

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

Healthy buildings: Is your building a ‘vertical cruise ship?’
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 rolls out online training for customers and partners
Switch’s new online training center provides Platform announcements, user guides and educational resources to aid our customers’ and partners’ smart building journeys.
What distinguishes the Switch Platform from a BMS?
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.

Manage and report on building health and safety with Switch Workspaces
Switch Workspaces translate your portfolio’s data sets and queries into valuable, actionable visualizations for corporate reporting, lobby screens or change management efforts.