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Smart Cities

New Paper Underlines Blockchain’s Importance to the Future Energy System

December 19th, 2018
Lighting

Seven-Eleven Launches First of Many Indoor Farms in Japan

December 17th, 2018
Smart Buildings

Smart Buildings Should Be Valued By Operational Performance Not Just Technology

“No one understands buildings more than the people that keep them operational and comfortable. In the public view, building operators often fall into the shadows behind shiny new technologies, but our focus shouldn’t be binary (i.e. people or tech),” said Lauren Long, Site 1001’s Director of Marketing, previously. “The true value of tech emerges when […]

Smart Buildings

Opportunities Beyond the Building – It’s All About Breaking Down the Silos

Buildings have traditionally been designed as somewhat isolated units protecting occupants from the outside world. While buildings still need to protect people from the elements, like the first buildings were designed to do, the modern world demands more complex relationships between buildings and their urban environment. Energy no longer just flows into a building but […]

Lighting

Smart Lighting Platform Leads to 50% Space Reduction for Real Estate Firm

Real estate companies can be tenants too, and when they are tenants in a smart building the technology can influence their decisions in the same way it does for their real estate clients. That’s what is happening in a four-story building near Schiphol airport, just outside Amsterdam, where $14.2-billion real estate services firm CBRE is […]

Smart Buildings

On Buildings that Compute. A Proposal.

“What if the intelligent matter of our surroundings could understand us, give us feedback and communicate with us? What if the walls surrounding us were not only supporting our roofs, but had increased functionality? What if each brick, or building block, was a self-powered, decentralised computing entity that would comprise a part of an emerging, […]

Smart Buildings

The Best Talent will Demand the Smartest Buildings

Smart commercial buildings are in demand. That’s the conclusion of several studies that suggest we may be on a turning point for smart building development, one that moves them from a niche, high-end facilities to a standard in our business districts. An MIT Center for Real Estate report, which analyzed data of over 650 smart […]

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