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Security

Software’s Growing Influence on the Physical Security Business

December 23rd, 2016
Smart Buildings

Reinventing BMS For Any Size Building

December 20th, 2016
Smart Buildings

Property Managers Are The “Nucleus” Of Smart Buildings

“I suspect the evolution of technology in our buildings is going to come rather quickly,” said Lachlan MacQuarrie, vice president, real estate management, with Oxford Properties Group, while moderating a seminar at the PM Expo in Toronto last month. “My advice would be: you probably don’t have as much time as you think you have.” […]

Smart Buildings

Europe Wants To Lead The World On Energy Efficiency

As the incoming US leadership threatens to keep its campaign promises and withdraw from the COP21 Paris climate agreement, signed by a record-breaking 193 countries and counting. Across the Atlantic, the EU have decided that they not only want to adapt to this clean energy transition, they want to lead it. Last week, the European […]

Security

What Physical Security Customers Want Today & Need in the Future

This is the first of a two part article that analyses what the customer of physical security equipment wants today and what they needs in the future. We have in the Part 1 set out the 2 major stages in the development of the business over the last 20 years and reviewed what customers will […]

Security

Integration & Partnerships Drive Video Surveillance down the Path Towards IoT

The Physical Security industry has been built around the need for buildings and urban places to be made secure and safe from theft, violence and more recently terrorism. Whilst these factors will remain important drivers for the foreseeable future we have already entered a second stage of development which is to integrate all aspects of […]

Smart Cities

What Would Our Cities Look Like If We Started From Scratch?

What would our cities look like if we started again, from scratch, with everything we know now? Would we create central business districts (CBDs) if we had the chance to redesign our cities? How different would our buildings be from the environments we have created now? These questions about workplaces, the built environment and city […]

Smart Buildings

BMS And IP Converge For Smart Building Network Infrastructure

The days of traditional building management system (BMS) infrastructure are behind us. Heating, lighting, air conditioning and other building functions now increasingly require information and telecommunication (ICT) networks in order to function in the modern world. This is not only demands a outright technical upgrade but also requires an entirely new way of thinking throughout […]

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