Environmental Controls
Environmental Drivers Take the Wheel in the Smart Buildings Market
February 17th, 2022Teach AI About Buildings So AI Can Teach Occupants About Energy Efficiency
September 28th, 2021
“It’s a Data Center with a Glass Roof” – Cannabis Pushes the Boundaries of Smart Buildings
The indoor horticultural industry is growing. Fueled by the Internet of Things (IoT), smart greenhouses are evolving to be more productive, more energy-efficient, and more responsive to the plants at the center of their operations. At the forefront of this new era of horticultural smart buildings is the rapidly emerging cannabis industry, where a new […]
Sensing + Forecasting = Efficient In-Building Environmental Control
In This Age of Smart Workplaces, Is it About Time We Had Smarter Desks?
Office workers are Increasingly finding themselves surrounded by smart technology in the workplace. High-tech access control systems, personalized environmental controls, even circadian lighting systems that mimic the rhythms of the sun to support better health and wellbeing. However, the vast mojority of office workers spend their days sitting at dumb old workstations made of four […]
Siemens Building Technologies Acquires BIoT Start-Up Enlighted
Europe’s largest industrial manufacturing company, Siemens, has agreed to acquire the Silicon Valley Internet of Things (IoT) solutions start-up Enlighted. Financial details have not been disclosed and the transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2018. Founded by Premal Ashar and Tanuj Mohan, Enlighted have raised more than $80 million in funding […]
Harvard Study Supports the Growing Body of Research Linking Air Quality to Productivity
Benjamin Franklin once professed, “I am persuaded that no common air from without is so unwholesome as the air within a close room that has been often breathed and not changed.” 250 years on and modern science is successfully proving that founding father’s idea. A recent pair of harvard studies has given further credence to […]
“Most People Don’t Realize how Buildings can Affect our Health & Wellbeing”
How do office workers respond to artificial lighting that simulates natural light? How do changes of indoor environmental conditions affect sleep and stress? What types of indoor environment intervention can increase cognitive performance and improve job satisfaction? In order to answer these questions and others, Minnesota-based Well Living Lab recently announced an extensive three-year scientific […]
All the Seasons in One Building – Taking Indoor Environmental Control to the Extreme
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth,” said Pablo Picasso. Next month a project will come to life in Piazza del Duomo, Milan’s main square, that will create a unreal reality and help us comprehend a growing truth about our smart buildings and cities – that we have more control of […]
Cities Need To Get Smart About Food
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometric ratio, subsistence increases only in an arithmetic ratio,” wrote the famous 18th century British cleric and scholar Thomas Malthus in his Essay On the Principle of Population in 1798. In a more modern English he might have said – population grows exponentially but food production grows in a […]