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Strategic Buyers in Smart Buildings Space Focus on Software Acquisitions in Q2
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July 15th, 2019
J2’s Release of FIN 5 Marks A Year in the Siemens Building Tech Family
Over six days in May 2018, German conglomerate Siemens made its smart building intentions clear. On the 17th, Siemens announced its acquisition of Los Angeles based J2 Innovations, a software framework provider for building automation and IoT technologies. Six days later, on May 23rd, the European manufacturing giant announced the acquisition of California-based IoT-enabled smart […]
Microsoft & Infosys: The Smart Building’s New Power Couple?
Software stalwart Microsoft announced a new partnership last week with digital services and consulting company Infosys. The deal aims to deliver smart buildings and spaces (SB&S) initiatives for construction, architecture, engineering, real estate development, and facilities management. The smart building focused collaboration will utilize Microsoft’s Azure cloud and analytics services in combination with Infosys’ experience […]
The Future of Digital Technology in Cities, According to the Urban Land Institute
“The adoption of digital technologies will change the face of cities as surely as any previous technology, whether the railway, the car or the skyscraper,” states a recent report from the Urban Land Institute (ULI). “However, rather than one huge ‘meteor strike’ impact, digital will create many individual heterogeneous changes, clustered into trends that, collectively, […]
Freelance Work Culture is Laying the Foundations for the Virtual Office
There are more than 53 million freelancers workers in the US, making up 34% of the national workforce according to a Freelancers Union report. Freelancers log more than one billion work hours per week and bring an estimated $715 billion in earnings into the US economy. Twice as many freelancers have seen an increase in […]
Evaluating IoT Cloud Platforms in the Context of Smart Buildings
IoT Development: Seamless Top-Down or Organic Bottom-Up Approach?
Is Powerline Communications the Key to Retrofitting Smartness into Buildings?
Cutting Through the Hype Surrounding Artificial Intelligence in Smart Buildings
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already infiltrating our society and it has our smart buildings firmly in its sights; with the aim of accelerating the current wave of efficiency and insight flooding every corner of our built environment. The talk of AI might always sound like the distant future but the technology, in different forms, is […]
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