Confused World of IoT Alliances Showing Signs of Maturing
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Leading Software Firms Race To Create Smart Home Assistants
“Siri, what’s your favourite movie?” you may ask your iPhone one rainy day, who would reply (half the time), “I’ve heard that ‘Blade Runner’ is a very realistic and sensitive depiction of intelligent assistants.” The fact that we can ask our phones this question, the style of answer, and the example used, all reveal a […]
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 […]
Google Plans To “Build An Entire City From The Internet Up”
Earlier this month we covered Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation wing of Google’s parent company Alphabet. A company, which has as yet done relatively little but, promises to change the very way we live and work. While Sidewalk Labs plans are still somewhat shrouded in mystery, what we do know lets the imagination flow. Announcing the […]
How will AI Turn Smart Buildings Into Intelligent Buildings?
Last month we discussed the evolution of pattern recognition, machine learning and how the current deep learning movement could be a precursor to artificial intelligence (AI). This month we consider how deep learning and AI are already becoming part of our society through applications in the smart building sector. Since its first public discussion at […]
Nest Goes Open Source With Its Thread Networking Protocol
Nest is going open source. The Alphabet-Google smart home company has just confirmed that it is rolling out ‘OpenThread’, an open source reference code implementation of the Thread networking protocol created in 2014. Last Wednesday, Nest published the source code for its implementation of the new OpenThread protocol on Github under a three-clause BSD license, […]
Google’s Sidewalk Labs Steps Closer to Smart City Vision
Google wants to build entire cities. Well not Google but Alphabet, Google’s parent company, through their smart city spin-off Sidewalk Labs. Sidewalk Labs describes itself as “an urban innovation company devoted to improving city life for residents, businesses and city governments, in particular by developing and incubating civic technologies”. Now, one year after its establishment, […]
Deep Learning Set to Revolutionise Smart Technology
Deep learning is the new buzz-term in the tech world, defining a new level of machine learning that has captured the imaginations and pockets of some of the world’s biggest digital companies. In the smart building and smart city sectors, deep learning is fostering the evolution of smarter sensors and reducing the overwhelming demands created […]
No Shortage of Investment in the Building Internet of Things
The Building Internet of Things (BIoT) is expected to become one of the top five markets for the Internet of Things. It is still in its early stage of development but the investment that it has attracted to develop new products and apply leading edge technology shows that it has the backing of both technology […]
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