Infrastructure
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June 5th, 2023
A Future of Smart Building Cyberattacks in the Pipeline?
On May 7th 2021, the Colonial Pipeline Company announced it was the victim of ransomware cyberattacks that forced it to disable the largest petroleum pipeline in the US. The Colonial Pipeline carries 2.5 million barrels a day of gasoline, diesel, heating oil, and jet fuel on an almost 9,000 km route from Houston, Texas, to […]
Designing Buildings For Users Means Designing Buildings With Users
Infrastructure provides connectivity and connectivity provides the basis of smart buildings, therefore, it is essential to get that infrastructure right from the outset. Upgrading the hard infrastructure of connectivity within a building retrospectively is costly, complex, and highly disruptive so, if the intention is to minimize problems over the entire lifecycle of the facility, then […]
Property Owners are Now Realizing they Need to Future-Proof their Buildings
“A building manager goes home and talks to his Alexa and has a really great software experience with five or six different mobile apps during the day. Then they get to their office, and all the systems haven’t changed in 20 years,” suggests Luke Schoenfelder, co-founder of smart lock provider Latch, in light of off-the-shelf […]
Should India Build Smart Cities?
India is pushing ahead with plans to build 100 Smart Cities in an effort to drive development and improve living standards across the emerging nation. However, last month’s devastating flooding in Chennai has raised an intriguing debate; Should nations who are largely developing, be focusing on smart development in cities, rather than creating basic protection […]