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A Fundamental Change of Attitude to Cyber Security In Smart Buildings
July 11th, 2016We Should Democratise Smart City Planning
July 7th, 2016
CRE Software Takes An Increasing Role In The Development Of Smart Buildings
“The Commercial Real Estate (CRE) technology landscape, has grown tremendously over the last five years, with Realcomm estimating 2,200 companies, with at least 500 new companies entering the space in the last five to six years”, states a recent Memoori report on Building Performance Software. While the definition of CRE technology often includes software for lease management, […]

IBM Wants to Create “Buildings Where People Want To Be, Not Just Need To Be”
ISS Group, a provider of facility services, has signed a commercial agreement with IBM to use the power of Watson IoT to transform the management of over 25,000 buildings around the world. Late last year IBM has announced new initiatives designed to bring together the power of its Watson machine learning with the Internet of Things (IoT) […]
Webinar: What’s Better in a Smart Building World?
** Recording of this Webinar can be Found HERE ** Please Join us on Wednesday 13th July for our 7th FREE Webinar in the 2016 Smart Buildings Series, Kindly Sponsored by Tridium… What’s Better in a Smart Building World? The BIoT is rapidly changing the Building Management game as we know it. This is a […]
Building Performance Software – A Growth Business that Needs Sharper Focus
Our new Report The Market for Building Performance Software 2016 to 2020 has estimated a world market worth $12.72Bn in 2015 that is forecast to grow to $18.75 by 2020 delivering a CARG of 8.1%. This is a very substantial growing business having some 350 established companies who are providing building performance software to 16 […]

Agility Beats Power In The Fight For Smart City Supremacy
Despite Brexit, the refuge crisis, increased terrorism, and economic strife in Greece, Europe is still better positioned to win supremacy in smart city innovation according to several experts in the field. Like two heavyweights before a title fight, the US talks a big talk and has more muscle to back it up but Europe has […]

PSIM & CISM: Same Same But Different?
“While the PSIM acronym continues to be widely used by many firms in the physical security management systems market, the leading players have moved away from the term in order to differentiate themselves from the competition”, suggests our most recent report. Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) may have been around for a few years now […]

Lighting Positions Itself at the Heart of Smart Buildings
The first electric light was made by English scientist, Humphry Davy, in 1800 and later improved by compatriot Sir Joseph Wilson Swan. In 1877, American Charles Francis Brush began the electric light’s commercialisation before Thomas Edison’s experiments led to the style of light bulb we used for the next 100 years or so. None of […]

Is Brexit All Bad News For UK Tech Sector?
Britain has not left Europe, despite some of the headlines that seem to suggest some sort of tectonic shift. Britain has voted to leave the European Union (EU) but will continue to be a major European economy, like other non-EU European nations such as Norway or Switzerland, whose voters rejected becoming part of the union. […]