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Smart Buildings

Gartner’s Hype Cycle Offers an Intriguing Insight into the Future Workplace

August 23rd, 2018
Smart Cities

The 4th Industrial Revolution is Hungry for Speed & IoT Applications Will Feast on 5G

August 22nd, 2018
Smart Cities

IBM & Threatcare Discover 17 Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Smart Cities

“An actor who is determined to incite mass chaos could create far greater impact with minimal effort if security for sensors and controls is not strengthened,” reads a 2018 report by IBM entitled: The Dangers of Smart City Hacking. The paper follows an investigation by IBM X-Force Red and Threatcare that discovered 17 zero-day vulnerabilities […]

Smart Buildings

Turning Entire Cities into Batteries with Energy Storing Cement

Instead of adding batteries to buildings in order to turn them into virtual power plants, what if we could use the building itself to store electricity? That is the thinking behind research at the University of Lancaster in the UK that has come up with a “smart cement” that is able to cost effectively store […]

Smart Cities

Is Putting Cyber Security in the Hands of Artificial Intelligence a Good Idea?

On a recent typical day, 2.6 million people in 232 different countries, encounter newly discovered malware – a Microsoft investigation found. These attacks were comprised of 1.7 million distinct, first-seen malware and 60% of these campaigns were finished within the hour. Today, malware is on a scale that human cyber security efforts simply cannot handle, […]

Security

There is a Burgeoning Need for AI Video Analytics

Current law enforcement systems are increasingly unable to cope with the sheer volume of surveillance material captured and stored every day that is set to rise dramatically with the population of video cameras increasing by at least 12% per year. Add to this the growing demand from the enterprise business to analyse video streams and […]

Lighting

Can Office Lighting Really Make You More Productive?

The right type of office light can make you more productive. This is a concept we’ve been hearing more and more in recent years, albeit mainly from lighting vendors and those promoting their smart buildings that feature “human-centric” lighting. So is this all just bogus science being used to reinvent the light bulb or is […]

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