Upon entering the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center (directly across the street from Disneyland) I was expecting to see a semblance of an Epcot Center “Building of the Future”.  What I witnessed was a mix of the old and new, established and emerging at the joint conference sponsored by Realcomm (an organization focused on technology and its impacts on commercial real estate) and BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association). 

I came to realize that beyond all the technological changes that are emerging - such as IP-based buildings, smart lavatories, and mobile collaboration software tools – much greater trends and forces are at work.  Following are the seven key findings I discovered from this conference, and they should impact the way you think about technology adoption, real estate, and customer markets:

1)      Equipment sensing and monitoring is old news, but comes in different forms.

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