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Interoperability the key to Smart City development in Europe
January 20th, 2016Smart Cities can be the Platform for All Smart Things
January 19th, 2016
LEDs & Lighting Controls causing Massive Shifts in the Building Sector
The $112 billion global lighting market is undergoing a rapid transformation driven by technological change and the rules of the game continue to change for players across the industry. The Boston Consulting Group recently identified two powerful shifts: the move toward LED lighting and the growing adoption of connected lighting systems. These trends, which reinforce […]
Will the Philips and Cisco Partnership Accelerate Smart Lighting?
In December, Philips, a global leader in lighting and Cisco, a worldwide leader in IT Networking, announced a global strategic alliance that will create new energy savings, building efficiency and employee productivity, made possible by the Internet of Things (IoT) in modern offices. This alliance brings together Philips’ LED based connected lighting system with Cisco’s […]
The Evolution of the Smart City: Top-down to Bottom-up
We have been sold a tech-utopia called a Smart City. An urban infrastructure full of sensors, creating masses of data, or “big data”, sent to sophisticated systems, which crunch numbers and control all sorts of applications and information provisions. Hired by national and municipal governments, tech giants such as IBM, Cisco, and Siemens, have developed […]
White House Announces $160 Million New Smart Cities Initiative
This week, the US government has announced a new Smart Cities Initiative that will invest over $160 million in federal research and leverage more than 25 new technology collaborations to help local communities tackle key challenges such as reducing traffic congestion, fighting crime, fostering economic growth, managing the effects of a changing climate, and improving […]
The Public or Private Sectors – Who will Lead Internet of Things Adoption?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is bubbling up behind almost “Everything” in recent years. The concept of connecting allsorts of objects, components and devices to a central network where Big Data can then be crunched to analyse and react to human behaviour, environmental conditions and an object’s status, has the potential to revolutionise the world […]
Big Data is Critical to Delivering the Internet of Things in Buildings
Big Data is the most critical element in delivering a fully automated control and management system to commercial & industrial smart buildings. It is the software that makes it possible to fine tune and automate without the intervention of humans. Solutions must satisfy building owners buying propositions; which is that their investment must reduce the […]
The Magnetic Attraction that’s Pulling Investing Dollars Towards the Building Internet of Things
The Building Internet of Things (BIoT) is expected to become one of the top 5 markets for the Internet of Things. It is still in its early formation stage but the investment that it has attracted to develop new products and apply leading edge technology shows that it has the backing of both leading technology […]
Who are the Leading Global Suppliers of Access Control Technology?
Access Control, for so long the poor relative of Video Surveillance, has in 2014 upstaged it by delivering a higher growth rate; which we forecast will continue over the next 5 years. The 3 main drivers for growth are the continuing move to IP technology, the integration of Access control with Identity Management and Wireless […]
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