Air Quality
New Study Raises Questions Over Effectiveness of Workplace Wellness Measures
March 28th, 2019Survey Investigates the Demands of Employees in Smart Commercial Buildings
February 25th, 2019
Selling Productivity Gains in Buildings: What’s the Business Case?
Improving productivity in offices is perhaps the “killer app” for all technology and service providers. From JLL’s 3-30-300, to Stok’s 1-10-100-1000, it is clear that helping workers do more in their working environment is more impactful than saving energy, extending equipment life, or optimizing lease terms for flexibility or cost savings. But, how do vendors […]
Smart Workplace Acoustics: The Next Frontier for Increasing Office Productivity
Workers in most offices deal with workplace noise in two different ways. Either they sit in a noisy, open plan office and, over time, get used to that background noise as they go about their activities, or they put a set of headphones on and detach from their distracting environment. Neither of these scenarios is […]
Research Suggests Stress Can Increase Productivity Sparking New AI Debate
Employee comfort has been a hallmark of the workplace in the IoT era. Office design and technology has promised to raise worker comfort levels to bring about health, wellbeing and productivity benefits. New research suggests, however, that too much comfort can be negative and that stress is an important motivator for performance. How will modern […]
The Empire Smart Building: Making the Case for Retrofitting Historic Buildings
In this era of ultra modern smart buildings we can often forget about the iconic and pioneering buildings of the past but some of these old timers are showing up the new kids on the block. Approaching its 90th birthday, the Empire State Building in New York is one such example. Retrofitted with advanced technologies, […]
Blockchain Series: Fostering Trust in our Smart Cities
“The city is what it is because our citizens are what they are,” said Plato, the Ancient Greek philosopher, almost 2,500 years ago. Today, cities are still shaped by their citizens but as our urban society becomes increasingly digital, who or what the citizens are is becoming less clear. Stolen identities, data beaches, voter fraud, […]
Harvard Study Supports the Growing Body of Research Linking Air Quality to Productivity
Benjamin Franklin once professed, “I am persuaded that no common air from without is so unwholesome as the air within a close room that has been often breathed and not changed.” 250 years on and modern science is successfully proving that founding father’s idea. A recent pair of harvard studies has given further credence to […]
Osram Launches Lightelligence for Energy Saving & Space Utilization in Smart Buildings
At the end of March, Munich-based lighting stalwart Osram announced ‘Lightelligence’ an open IoT platform and ecosystem in the lighting business and beyond. Osram claims that Lightelligence saves on energy and labor costs while simplifying the development of IoT software, which in turn unlocks the full potential of new business models. We explore the details […]
The Smart Enterprise: Boldly Going Where No Office Has Gone Before…
Our science fiction based ideas of future spaceships paint a picture of perfectly calibrated indoor environments protecting passengers from the inhospitable vacuum of space but also keeping them comfortable, healthy and productive. Our earth based and immobile modern offices have the same ambitions; to ensure occupants are comfortable, healthy and productive thereby improving the efficiency […]
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