Cyber Physical Systems
Reconsidering the Design Automation of Cyber-Physical Systems
January 12th, 2017Making Citizens The Center Of The Equation In A Collaborative Smart City
December 21st, 2016Internet of Things Devices at the Center of Biggest Cyber Attack In History
“In a relatively short time we’ve taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters,” tweeted Jeff Jarmoc, head of security for global business service Salesforce. Jamroc’s comments came after one of the largest cyber attacks in history brought down several of the internet’s biggest sites just over […]
An Activity-Aware Approach To Designing Smart Buildings And Cities
The cyber physical systems (CPS) revolution is well underway. All manner of physical objects in our buildings and cities are being brought online under the banner of the Internet of Things (IoT). Objects with the ability to sense their environment and reason about the implications, are optimising processes, creating value, enhancing resiliency and developing responsiveness. […]
Audio: Physical Security, IoT & The Role of Open Standards
For those who missed it or want to listen again, below is the Audio Stream from our 8th Free Webinar in the 2016 Smart Buildings Series, sponsored by Tridium… Physical Security, IoT & The Role of Open Standards. This is a Q&A Webinar with Per Björkdahl, Chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee. In this Webinar, […]
We Should Democratise Smart City Planning
A smart city project in the UK has crowdsourced ideas in order to better plan the urban redevelopment. As part of a new smart city report, thoughts on the project were welcomed from hundreds of experts across six different domains through a series of 37 workshops at the Hypercatevent in London this year. Hypercat enlisted some of […]
Smart City 2.0: Digital Industrial Companies And Urban Entrepreneurs
While still a relatively new sounding term, the ‘smart city’ has been a topic of discussion for over ten years now. This technology enabled urban development has been increasingly influential in our cities during the past decade but has recently taken a big step forward to what we might now call ‘smart city 2.0’. The […]
VC Funding Returns to Smart Building Tech with Investments in Comfy & Aquicore
It has been a busy couple of weeks for funding in the smart technology space with the launch of a major new venture capital fund and multiple investments reinforcing the continually increasing smart technology start-up trend. The first week of June saw the launch of Microsoft Ventures. The tech giant unveiled its official VC arm […]
Could Blockchain Software Be The Answer For Safe, Secure, Smart Cities?
Smart cities are beginning to take shape; the urban buzz term of the last few years has seen an increase of practical applications in the real world. However, much like the internet of things (IoT) in general, its development is somewhat over shadowed by the risk of cyber-security, in terms of data privacy, cyber attacks […]
2015 Was The Tipping Point For IP Access Control – Memoori Talks To Isonas
For years nothing much changed in the Access Control sector, until fairly recently when we have seen an evolution towards IP. Access Control is becoming a fundamental element of the modern smart building and the connected environment at large. The total world production value of security products at factory gate prices was $27.25 billion in […]