Environmental Controls

Smart Cities

Environmental Drivers Take the Wheel in the Smart Buildings Market

February 17th, 2022
Smart Buildings

Teach AI About Buildings So AI Can Teach Occupants About Energy Efficiency

September 28th, 2021
Smart Buildings

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 […]

Lighting

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 […]

Smart Buildings

“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 […]

Smart Cities

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 […]

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