Intelligent Buildings

“… & … collaborate to accelerate smart building development,” proclaim many recent headlines within smart building’s industry media, marking a significant rise from just a few years ago. In an industry where inter-connectedness is king and adoption is struggling, collaborations offer a means to spur market growth through joint efforts and combined offerings that give […]

Considering that they were first mentioned in the 1980s, it sometimes feels like smart buildings have been around for a while. With every device connected it may appear that the technology is now established, that all that is left is for costs to come down so adoption can pick up and that we are on […]

“Occupant presence and behavior in buildings is considered a key element towards building intelligent and pervasive environments. Yet, practical applications of energy intelligent buildings typically suffer from high sensor unreliability,” highlights a recent paper that proposes a fundamentally new way of inferring occupancy in smart buildings. The study has been able to demonstrate an additional […]

The smart building is, in essence, a set of interconnected building systems. The industry that surrounds those smart buildings, however, is epitomized by its disconnectedness. This irony is more than just an amusing fact. It highlights a serious issue in the smart building sector, one that holds back growth and limits the understanding of the […]

The vast majority of commercial buildings are yet to fully exploit the potential of intelligent control systems, let alone attempt to integrate multiple business and building systems together into the building Internet of Things (BIoT). That’s according to our latest research report The Internet of Things in Smart Commercial Buildings 2018 to 2022, which identifies […]

The global market for the Building Internet of Things (BIoT) has been growing rapidly over the last decade with North America dominating the sector until recently. The rise of IoT adoption in buildings throughout the Asia-Pacific region in recent times is set to continue for at least the next five years. While the Asia-Pacific regions […]

Our new research report is an objective assessment of the market for Internet of Things Technologies, Networks and Services in Commercial Smart Buildings. The Internet of Things (IoT) is now starting to have a transformative effect on smart building automation and control. It is disrupting long established business models and offering significant new opportunities to […]