This is a really good video about how the accessibility of building automation with tools such as Raspberry Pi and Python is so much greater than people realise. This most interesting point it towards the end, this was built in-house by an employee, they didn't go out and bring in an automation consultancy, they used their own experience and enabled their own employees to build it.
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> The funny thing is, people too often jump for the consultant and to go find the 200 quid an hour amazing mega person.
> But you have universities, you have young talent bubbling up, you have talent inside your own staff.
> You have got to innovate. If all you do is just chuck money at consultants you're not going to be beating the competition.
> You've got to come up with new ideas and suck ideas from different places.
> And this is just one example where one of our staff unlocked huge potential in our organisation.
Transcript of relevant part:
> The funny thing is, people too often jump for the consultant and to go find the 200 quid an hour amazing mega person.
> But you have universities, you have young talent bubbling up, you have talent inside your own staff.
> You have got to innovate. If all you do is just chuck money at consultants you're not going to be beating the competition.
> You've got to come up with new ideas and suck ideas from different places.
> And this is just one example where one of our staff unlocked huge potential in our organisation.