For facility managers, seasonal changes are always a challenge. External temperatures fluctuate. Occupant attire straddles the coverage spectrum. You can tell by the flood of emails that you receive (and the dirty looks that you get at lunch) that occupant comfort is not optimal.  It doesn’t have to be that way. Occupant comfort is a tricky science. As a facility manager, you balance the temperatures between 72° – 76° F for your office spaces because you know the workers will be sedentary. In more active environments, like retail and schools, you drop the temperatures between 68° – 74° F. You know that these temperature ranges will keep about 90 percent of the occupants happy, which is the industry standard. Yet the ASHRAE recommended temperature ranges are broad enough to cause discomfort amongst the 90 percent, especially during changes in season. Biological differences play a role in comfortable conditions. Yardi LOBOS® (Load Based Optimization System) for commercial properties makes it easier to achieve optimal occupant comfort while saving energy even during seasonal transitions. LOBOS is an intelligent HVAC energy optimization software platform that can help you maximize efficiency, by automating demand management, peak load reduction. and demand response events. It does this by sending temperature, pressure, and speed set point adjustment signals to the existing HVAC components every 60 seconds to produce just enough cooling resources to satisfy the cooling demand in the spaces The LOBOS Cloud automatically stores HVAC trend data that operators find useful in creating a host of ad hoc reports of system operation and performance. The LOBOS software suite gives you a complete understanding of how your building is performing and automatically makes subtle real-time adjustments to maximize occupant comfort and energy savings. Adding LOBOS to an existing HVAC system typically...