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Trusted Identities Are An Essential Part Of The Access Control Evolution, But Who Governs Privacy?
August 24th, 2017Could Bluetooth’s New Mesh Networking Trigger A New Wave Of IoT adoption In Smart Buildings?
July 25th, 2017
Philips Launches Wireless Lighting-As-A-Service, Offering Smartness Without The Capex
“Digital transformation leaders will no longer view buildings merely as places to shelter employees from the elements but will use them to support heightened employee productivity and tools for business growth,” predicts Andrew Hewitt of Forrester Research. In late April, one such “digital transformation leader,” Philips Lighting, launched a new wireless connected lighting system aimed […]
OSRAM Joins the Lighting Divestment Bandwagon
The divestment and realignment trend continues in the lighting sector as another market leader sells off its luminaries business and refocuses efforts on smarter technology. Munich-based OSRAM made a number of moves towards location based services and connectivity technology in the past few weeks and announced the sale of its lamps group Ledvance to a […]
Nest Goes Open Source With Its Thread Networking Protocol
Nest is going open source. The Alphabet-Google smart home company has just confirmed that it is rolling out ‘OpenThread’, an open source reference code implementation of the Thread networking protocol created in 2014. Last Wednesday, Nest published the source code for its implementation of the new OpenThread protocol on Github under a three-clause BSD license, […]
Wireless Technologies Battle for Internet of Things Supremacy
Today’s industrial revolution is the Internet of Things. If a company’s new electronic product isn’t connected and their business model doesn’t include a services component then they are losing relevancy and mindshare of their customers and falling behind their competition. By 2017, Gartner anticipates that 50% of IoT solutions will come from start-up companies less […]
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 […]
Why the Internet of Things Changes Physical Security
This article, written by Per Bjorkdahl, Chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee explains why the security industry needs to take special care in ensuring that the introduction of IoT into the physical security industry meets the highest security standards. To do this and ensure that the most appropriate communication standard is adopted requires ONVIF to […]
LEDs Lighting the Path Towards Location Based Services
You step inside a supermarket and your shopping list is transformed into a personalized map, showing you the deals that’ll appeal to you most. You pause in front of a concert poster, pull out your phone, and you’re greeted with an option to buy tickets with a single tap. Welcome to the world of location […]
Audio: Wireless Communications are the Key to Enabling IoT In Buildings
For those that missed it or want to listen again, below is the Audio Stream from our 2nd Free Webinar in the 2015 Smart Building Series… Wireless Communication – The Key To Enabling The Internet Of Things In Buildings – Q&A with Nick Hunn, Wireless Evangelist & Author of “Essentials of Short-Range Wireless In […]
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