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Smart Building Technology: Maintaining the Balance Between Energy & Data
October 30th, 2019Evaluating IoT Cloud Platforms in the Context of Smart Buildings
April 1st, 2019
Making The Case For Open Source User Experience in Smart Buildings

The Technology Keeps Evolving – The Skills Gap is Widening
The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) is taking place, driving us into the Data Age. Just as with steam power, electricity and computing, the impact of this data revolution will be felt across modern society as homes, buildings and workplaces adopt more intelligent, connected devices and systems. Just as with previous technological leaps, the rate of […]

The Huge Value of Occupancy Data in Commercial Real Estate
As much as one-third of commercial real estate in the US is “under-utilized,” according to the IBM Institute for Business Value. That is approximately 4 billion square feet of space that could be used better to add value or let go to save cost. The problem is that companies and building owners aren’t always sure […]

“Where an OT-IT conflict exists, OT feels it more sharply” Report Highlights
“There are further opportunities in expanding the scope and aspirations of building related Big Data assets beyond the purview of just operational and energy management,” states our latest report Towards Data-Driven Buildings: Big Data For Smart Buildings 2018 to 2023. “Too often, buildings are seen as simply a cost that needs to be minimized as […]

IBM & Threatcare Discover 17 Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Smart Cities
“An actor who is determined to incite mass chaos could create far greater impact with minimal effort if security for sensors and controls is not strengthened,” reads a 2018 report by IBM entitled: The Dangers of Smart City Hacking. The paper follows an investigation by IBM X-Force Red and Threatcare that discovered 17 zero-day vulnerabilities […]

WeWork: Millennial Fad or New Era for the Workplace?
During a recent visit to one of the two WeWork coworking office buildings in Seoul’s Gangnam district, I was met with DJs setting up speakers in the meeting space we normally use. “There’s a party here later. Let’s head to the 10th floor, they have a new craft beer in the lounge up there,” I […]

Amazon Partner with Marriott Hotels to Launch Alexa for Hospitality
In Netflix new cyberpunk science fiction mystery, Altered Carbon, the somewhat dystopian urban future is dotted with AI hotels – that is a hotel run entirely by an artificially intelligent system and no human staff. Whenever guests have a request they can say it out loud and wherever they are in the hotel the “virtual […]

The Collision of IT & OT is Shaping the Future of Buildings in the IoT Age
The Internet of Things for Buildings (BIoT) is simply so vast that it would be better described as an ecosystem than a business sector. An ecosystem is a community of elements, which interact with each other and their physical environment to create balance and functionality in a system. Where one business could potentially serve and […]