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New Campuses of Big Tech Companies Offer a Glimpse into the Future
Companies like IBM and Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, Google and Amazon, have been at the center of society’s digital transformation. Each one competes over its space in the market, and increasingly in the smart building age, each one competes over the quality of its space. New headquarters create a buzz around the company but also […]
Traditional Lighting Firms Seize The IoT Opportunity
Once upon a time light fixtures just illuminated spaces and then along came the internet of things (IoT). The IoT turns “things,” like lights, into connected things. As buildings became smart buildings, lighting found itself in the perfect position to act as a platform for a wide variety of IoT applications. The ceiling has long […]
Strategic Alliances Focusing on the Building Internet of Things Gain Prominence
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. Partnerships focusing on IoT solutions in buildings have gained prominence in the past year. We have tracked over 30 alliances announced since January 2016 between the main building technology incumbents, IT partners and specialised IoT platform providers. This excludes strategic investments, minority stakes, and […]
Smart, Smarter, CyberSmart: Protecting the New Generation of Buildings
“Smart buildings are not an option for the 21st Century – they are a necessity,” begins a new whitepaper by Booz Allen Hamilton, in partnership with Johnson Controls – Cybersmart Buildings: Securing your investments in connectivity and automation. After summarizing the benefits and obstacles to smart building operation, the paper goes on to say, “It […]
The Transformation of the Building Performance Software Business
The building performance software industry has at least 350 established suppliers delivering across 6 main different market segments that can be further sub-divided into 16 segments. These segments overlap and cause confusion when the building operators are evaluating how they meet their value propositions. This is particularly critical now that the major real estate owners […]
Have We Considered What The Smart City Might Actually Mean For Society?
“The smart city was the wrong idea pitched in the wrong way to the wrong people,” suggested Dan Hill, of urban innovators the Future Cities Catapult. “It never answered the question: ‘How is it tangibly, materially going to affect the way people live, work, and play?’” Hill refers to the shiny new technology that has […]
Have You Ever Considered How Diverse The Smart City Sector Is?
Have you ever considered how diverse the smart city sector is? Think about the variety of companies from different industries it brings together, along with government agencies, academics, social enterprises, urbanists and community leaders. Is there anything quite like that in the modern world? Smart Cities could be called the Urban IoT and by definition […]
Smart Commercial Buildings Show their Importance to The Internet Of Things
Smart Building device connections are expected to grow from $2.7bn in 2015 to $11.2bn in 2021, according to our new report The Internet of Things in Smart Commercial Buildings 2016 to 2021. This prediction demonstrates the burgeoning strength of the smart building market within the internet of things (IoT) era. In fact, connected devices in […]
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