Jul 03 2009
Automated Buildings has just published a series of articles in its July issue that are summarized below. They mention web-based BIM in general and specifically highlight ONUMA, Inc. and Cisco Systems, the backbone of the Internet.
ARTICLE ONE
In his "Top 5 Take Aways" of the ConnectivityWeek conference, Automated Buildings Editor Ken Sinclair places Kimon Onuma, FAIA at #2 and at #4 is Robert Metcalfe, one of the inventors of the Internet.
Ken writes, "The BIMStorm® presentation made a huge impression on me and set my mind reeling as to what a 'Connectivity Storm' with real time grid and building data might look like."
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ARTICLE TWO
BIMStorm® Connect is the focus of the second article, which ends by noting that the ONUMA Planning System® won a Buildy Award by popular vote of conference attendees.
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ARTICLE THREE
The third article covers Cisco's rebranding of a device that could be for the building industry what the Cisco's router is to the Internet. Developed by Ed Richards, the Mediator will accept data from 75 building industry protocols, normalize the data and send it out on the Internet where web-based BIM software, such as the ONUMA Planning System, can display it live on Google Earth. Richards and Onuma meet each other for the first time at ConnectivityWeek. The pending interface between Cisco's Mediator and the ONUMA Planning System is something we will watch with great interest.
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