Presenter Overview
Toby Considine
Co-Chair / Infrastructure Analyst
oBIX / University of North Carolina
Toby Considine has been working with enterprise applications and the integration of embedded control systems for 20 years. As a Systems Specialist in Facilities Services at the University of North Carolina, Mr. Considine has real world experience with the poor security, poor interoperability, and brittle integrations of last-generation protocols. Toby used this experience to drive his work with oBIX, and with issues of integrating buildings with larger systems and each other using enterprise-grade protocols. This experience is very pertinent to the issues faced by the GridWise Architectural Council.
Before coming to the University, Mr. Considine worked to integrate other silo processes into the enterprise for companies including multinational architecture, engineering, computer, and consumer goods companies. Toby’s dirty secret is his participation in a large free ad-supported public access computer network a decade before the DotCom boom (and bust). He began tinkering with computers using an acoustic coupler and wrote device drivers for some of the first microcomputers sold.
Toby’s thoughts on these areas can be found at NewDaedalus.com.