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Audio: DC Power Distribution and the Digitisation of the Built Environment
August 25th, 2015Why the Building Internet of Things Will Enable Smart Buildings
August 21st, 2015Internet of Things for the Insurance Industry: Privacy vs Rewards
Forward thinking insurance firms are realising that they can increase their profitability metrics and better their risk modelling by investing in the Internet of Things (IoT). Earlier this year Verizon released its State of the Market: The Internet of Things 2015 report; a comprehensive look at how enterprises adopt and implement connected strategies in different […]
The Key Market Drivers for the Building Internet of Things Business
The key drivers causing Building Automation (BAS) to morph into the Building Internet of Things (BIoT) fall into 3 main categories – business drivers, technology drivers and energy efficiency drivers. In the first category the driver that will have the most impact in the long term is data integration into business systems. Organizations are increasingly […]
“Who’s Responsible when a Smart City Crashes?”
When the question “Who’s responsible when a smart city crashes?” was posed by Futurologist Dr. Simon Moores during his keynote session at IFSEC last month, it sparked an intriguing and still un-concluded debate. It not only challenged topics of ownership and responsibility, but also highlighted smart city vulnerabilities and our growing dependency on connected technology. […]
Audio: Project Haystack – Working with Data from the Internet of Things
For those who missed it or want to listen again, below is the Audio Stream from our 7th Free Webinar in the 2015 Smart Building Series… Project Haystack – Working with Data from the Internet of Things. Q&A with Marc Petock, VP of Marketing at Lynxspring & John Petze, Partner at SkyFoundry. In this Webinar, […]
The Physical Security Industry Moves Fast to Integrate but not through IoT
The major theme at last weeks IFSEC exhibition was about integration across video surveillance, access control and intruder alarms but nothing that showed how it was going to develop fully integrated and automated systems through Internet of Things Technology. Surprising because the Physical Security industry within the Building Automation Systems business has been the leader […]
Without Privacy Controls, we will not see the Full Potential of the Internet of Things
We are heading towards a world where everything is connected, not only online, but also in the physical world of wireless and wearable devices linking cars, with offices, with watches, ovens and street lights. When we add to that the tracking of activities from our smart homes by way of automated thermostats, light fixtures, smart […]
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) […]
What Stage of Development is the Building Internet of Things (BIoT) at Today?
The Building Internet of Things is getting closer to connecting on one common IP Network platform; where all the building automation service can be monitored, analysed and controlled. Automated without the need for intervention by humans. BAS Services have over the last quarter century undergone a slow and painful development of integrating the many different […]
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