A city is essentially just a collection of buildings. A smart city, therefore, should be a collection of smart buildings. However, the development of smart buildings and smart cities has, so far, been relatively independent of one another. At the door of the building, a new network begins, with a new set of applications, and an entirely different set of objectives. All that could change in 2019 when the long-awaited integration of smart buildings and their cities begins in earnest, according to experts across the sector. “We’re going to see a smart city breakthrough in 2019 which will bring with it a wave of services from the connected car to the smart building and more on the smart home,” says Glenn Lurie, CEO, of Synchronoss https://synchronoss.com/. “But, these smart applications are connected individually, and do not have interoperability, therefore are essentially disconnected from each other – which is a massive missed opportunity for consumers.” By […]