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The Power Of PoE Is Making Buildings Smarter For Less
July 13th, 2016What’s a Smart City Without Connected Smart Buildings?
April 14th, 2016
No Shortage of Investment in the Building Internet of Things
The Building Internet of Things (BIoT) is expected to become one of the top five markets for the Internet of Things. It is still in its early stage of development but the investment that it has attracted to develop new products and apply leading edge technology shows that it has the backing of both technology […]
Pivot3 Takes $55m to Tackle Hyper-Converged and Flash Storage Market
Pivot3, a 13-year-old “start-up” providing storage-centric hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions for video surveillance, has announced $55 million equity and bank financing. “The funding will accelerate the company’s growth and enable it to bring to market the most extensive suite of hyper-converged and flash storage solutions with predictable performance that is available today”, they say. Hyper-converged […]
Johnson Controls’ Focus on Building Automation Continues with Cisco Partnership
Johnson Controls recently announced that it has joined the Cisco Digital Ceiling community as a founding building automation partner. The Digital Ceiling framework provides a platform that delivers better user experiences through the convergence of the IT network and building technologies, including lighting, heating, cooling, security, motion detection, and other sensors and actuators. “Building owners […]
IoT Standards Continue on Different Roads to the Same Destination
Australia based digital solutions company Two Bulls has won a development contract with the Linux Foundation to develop Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity on a truly global scale. The company – whose innovative work in the IoT space has also led to a spinout of its smart home-centric Higgns platform – was awarded the 12-month […]
Cree Announces PoE System as part of Cisco’s Digital Ceiling Framework
Last week, Cree Inc., introduced their SmartCast Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology; an open platform that enables the Internet of Things (IoT) for buildings through improved lighting control. “Commercial lighting customers have resisted installing traditional lighting controls because of excess cost and complexity, and the majority of those who have installed controls stop using them […]
The Evolution of BIoT… Will it be Top Down or Bottom Up?
The Building Internet of Things (BIoT) business is currently being driven by 2 quite different major supply chains. Bottom up by the suppliers of some 12 different technical services in buildings from Environmental controls through to Security and Safety. Also top down from the major IoT specialists coming from the Communications and Software Industries. This […]
The Internet of People, Process, Data & Things – Everything
While 2016 has been dubbed the year of IoT, professor Barry Dwolatzky, director of the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering http://www.jcse.org.za/, believes that despite the hype surrounding the IoT, including big data, cloud and artificial intelligence (AI), this year the Internet of Everything (IoE) will take centre stage. The “Internet of Everything” is seen as […]
Sensors, Sensors, Everywhere…
Forget about costs and practicalities for a minute, and consider what would the world be like if we had environmental sensors everywhere? When taking the Internet of Things (IoT) concept to its greatest extent, sensors could link to our climate control systems, our transport systems, our healthcare systems – adapting to our preferences, improving our […]
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