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Direct New Investment in the Physical Security Industry Fell in 2016
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March 31st, 2017
Will A Truly Smart Building Be Emotionally Intelligent?
“Imagine your fridge working with you to eat healthier, or your wearable and TV team up to get you off the couch! Your bathroom mirror senses that you’re a bit stressed and interacts with your lighting to adjust it while turning on the right mood-enhancing music,” it states on the website for emotional recognition firm […]
We Need To Talk About Artificial Intelligence
On the 11th of May 1997 Chess enthusiasts watched World Chess champion Garry Kasparov lose the sixth and final match of a novel but symbolic series. Kasparov lost this deciding match in just 19 moves against the IBM’s Deep Blue computer in New York. For many is was the first sign that computers would one […]
Webinar: Creating Transparency From Building Analytics
** Recording of this Webinar can be Found HERE ** Please Join us on Tuesday 4th April 16:00 UK Time for our 4th FREE Webinar in the 2017 Smart Buildings Series, Kindly Sponsored by Project Haystack. Creating Transparency From Building Analytics A Q&A Webinar with James Lee CEO & President of Cimetrics. We will be […]
Building Technology Suppliers Strengthen Digital Innovation through Accelerator and Incubation Hubs
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. The announcement by UTC on 20 March 2017 of a $300 million investment in a Digital Accelerator based in Brooklyn, New York is another example of the trend by building technology suppliers to step up their digital innovation efforts. The accelerator will serve as […]
Europe Lags Behind Asia in the Industrial Internet of Things Race
Asia has long led the global manufacturing race. Populous nations like China have relied on an abundance of cheap labor to drive growth in their manufacturing sector. However, with the rise of the industrial internet of things (IIoT) an opportunity has arisen for Europe’s factories to gain a competitive advantage over their Asian cousins. It […]
Amazon S3 Outage Reminds Us The Cloud Is Not Perfect
On the 28th February 2017 the cloud went down. Or at least a large section of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) went down, taking a lot of things down with it. The list of affected sites is long but the outage points to a much bigger problem; what does an outage […]
Why Should Facilities Managers Care About the Smart Grid?
“Work done addressing Smart Grid has been central to the last decade’s most significant technology developments; from Internet of Things to Web services and Building Automation to Big Data Energy Analytics,” said John “Jack” McGowan, CEM Principal at The McGowan Group. In an article for Automated Buildings, McGowan points out that too much of the […]
Why Data is Changing Business Models in the Building Automation World
The Internet of Things (IoT) is claimed to be the fourth industrial revolution, which will enable a new class of businesses to emerge, delivering products and services to meet customers growing expectations. Producing the world’s best widget can no longer sustain a company unless it can gather every possible bit of data about its performance, […]
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