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Have You Ever Considered How Diverse The Smart City Sector Is?
December 13th, 2016What Physical Security Customers Want Today & Need in the Future
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CRE Software Takes An Increasing Role In The Development Of Smart Buildings
“The Commercial Real Estate (CRE) technology landscape, has grown tremendously over the last five years, with Realcomm estimating 2,200 companies, with at least 500 new companies entering the space in the last five to six years”, states a recent Memoori report on Building Performance Software. While the definition of CRE technology often includes software for lease management, […]
IBM Wants to Create “Buildings Where People Want To Be, Not Just Need To Be”
ISS Group, a provider of facility services, has signed a commercial agreement with IBM to use the power of Watson IoT to transform the management of over 25,000 buildings around the world. Late last year IBM has announced new initiatives designed to bring together the power of its Watson machine learning with the Internet of Things (IoT) […]
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 […]
Will Smart Buildings of the Future Charge by the Hour?
Rolls Royce no longer sells engines for aircrafts; it sells flying time. In the automotive industry, many manufacturers are developing Mobility as a Service (MaaS) by way of various car-sharing applications. For many years Software as a Service (SaaS) has been a staple for software giants such as Adobe and Microsoft. “In the building industry, […]
New Partnerships Underline IBM’s Smart Building Ambitions
Last week, KONE, a global company in the elevator and escalator industry, entered into an agreement with tech giant IBM, where KONE will use IBM’s technology and experience to harness the potential of digitalisation and the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart buildings. KONE stated that it “will use IBM’s Watson IoT Cloud Platform to […]
IBM Hackers Highlight Cyber Security Vulnerabilities in Smart Buildings
Ethical hackers from IBM’s X-Force tested a smart buildings automation system and encountered numerous serious security issues. The researchers identified several security holes that provide hackers with a backdoor into corporate networks through the office’s climate control systems. This recent discovery highlights the dangers of unsecure connected devices within the Internet of Things (IoT) and […]
Interoperability the key to Smart City development in Europe
We talk about smart cities a lot, but mainly we talk about their potential; for sustainability, for efficiency, for health, for safety, for innovation. In order to move past the hype and realise that potential, the sector needs to be less fragmented and more focused on interoperability, say several European leaders who will be hosting […]
Smart Cities can be the Platform for All Smart Things
We will have smart cities before we have smart homes, that is the view of AT&T as they launched their Smart Cities Framework alongside international technology show CES in Las Vegas earlier this month. The telecom giant announced that it is partnering with a who’s who of Big Data (Cisco, Deloitte, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Intel, […]
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