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Want a smarter smart building? Learn how to structure your RFI, RFP, and RFQ process for success. This blog breaks down common procurement pitfalls and offers clear, strategic steps to help you scope, assign, and deliver smarter systems with long-term impact.

This blog explores how smart technology—specifically the GENESIS platform from Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions—enables organizations to meet ESG goals while reducing costs. Drawing insights from the Sustainability LIVE: Chicago event and real-world case studies from Microsoft, Mitsubishi Electric, and Intesa Sanpaolo, the blog illustrates how GENESIS empowers businesses to cut energy waste, optimize operations, and simplify regulatory reporting. 

In the Arctic town of Longyearbyen, smart building technology powered by GENESIS64 from Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions helped create a mini smart city—cutting energy waste by up to 76%, improving comfort, and unifying control of buildings, utilities, heat networks, and permafrost systems in one resilient digital platform.

Legacy HMI/SCADA systems are reaching end-of-life, making full replacement more valuable than incremental upgrades. This blog outlines a comprehensive checklist to guide your transition to a future-ready SCADA platform with modern security, scalability, and performance.

As performance-based regulations gain traction worldwide, building owners must do more than report—they must act. In Part 1 of this series, we explore the rise of building performance standards, why these matter now, and how companies can use the right smart building technology—like GENESIS from Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions—to move from reactive compliance to proactive performance and lasting value.

This practical guide explains how to properly size and scale GENESIS version 11 for your SCADA and digitalization projects. Learn what a node is, when to move from a single-tier to a multi-node or multi-tier architecture, and how factors like tag count, scan rate, and system load affect performance. Whether you’re building a small system or scaling enterprise-wide, this guide helps you align your architecture, licensing, and goals for long-term success.

Choosing the right data storage in industrial automation impacts performance and uptime. This blog compares process historians, time-series databases, and relational databases—highlighting reliability, performance, and data lifecycle differences. Learn why GENESIS includes an integrated process historian for confident scaling and streamlined operations.

ICONICS is now Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions (MEIDS). This name change marks the next chapter in our evolution—uniting our legacy of innovation with Mitsubishi Electric’s global strength to deliver smarter, more connected automation, digitalization, and sustainable building solutions for the future.