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Is Energy Storage Quickly Becoming a Mainstream Technology?
January 29th, 2018If ABB And IBM Conceived A Smart Grid Baby…
May 4th, 2017Security Companies Invest in Disruptive Technology for Smart Buildings
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. The major security systems companies are facing competitive pressure from a wave of smart building startups in the continuing race towards IoT. As a response to the potential threat, Tyco and Bosch have recently increased their investments in innovation through in-house R&D, early stage […]
Greater Competition Can Only be Good for the Energy Storage Sector
New big names are entering the energy storage sector in 2016, in a market that already includes ABB, GE, LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Tesla. This month Daimler AG began deliveries of Mercedes-Benz stationary energy storage units for use in private homes. While global aerospace, defence and security firm Lockheed Martin have made clear their intentions […]
Strategic Alliances and Investments in the Smart Buildings Landscape
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. Partnerships and investments can play an increasingly important role in implementing strategic goals, particularly in providing access to the range of innovative technologies being developed for the smart buildings marketplace. While acquisitions are also being regularly undertaken by the building technology players as an […]
Building Internet of Things Growth is Being Restricted by the Supply Chain
In a previous article on IoT in buildings “Partnering is the Key to Success for Emerging Building Internet of Things Players” discussed why the Building Automation Systems (BAS) suppliers were becoming a little less enthusiastic about the morphing of their business to the Building Internet of Things (BIoT). Sharing a much bigger pie with the […]
Partnering is the Key to Success for Emerging Building Internet of Things Players
Having just completed a series of 3 techno / commercial studies on the Building Internet of Things (BIoT) the objective to turn smart buildings into fully automated ones requiring little or no human intervention has the full support of building owners. The technology to overcome the deficiencies of the present semi-automated Building Automation Services (BAS) […]
Building Automation Suppliers have a Major Role to Play in BIoT – Will they Grasp this Opportunity?
For a quarter of a century the Building Automation System (BAS) industry has been working hard at delivering connectivity across all the building technical services. They have had limited success in achieving this goal – solutions have been expensive, lacked flexibility and robustness and could not achieve the ultimate goal of fully optimising and automating […]
USEF Creates Framework to Modernise the Power Value Chain
The Universal Smart Energy Framework (USEF) is set to revolutionise the power industry, and open up the smart and renewable technology markets. USEF is an industry initiative driven by: Alliander, ABB, DNV GL, IBM, ICT Automatisering, RWE-Essent and Stedin. The open framework is designed to accelerate the development of smart energy products, services and solutions […]
Smart Building Synergy Through Building Energy Management Systems & Enterprise Energy Management Software
Both Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) and Enterprise Energy Management (EEM) have major parts to play in delivering Distributed Energy and Demand Response services connecting across Smart Buildings and Smart Grid. This reinforces that together they can also reach across associated applications. This must be synergy personified. Integrating the technical services in buildings is not […]
