Internet of Things
If Data Is The New Gold, Then Data Scientists Are The New Gold Miners
January 13th, 2017Reconsidering the Design Automation of Cyber-Physical Systems
January 12th, 2017Audio: Cyber Security in 2017! What can Smart Buildings expect?
For those who missed it or want to listen again, below is the Audio Recording from our 1st Smart Buildings Series conversation in 2017 – Cyber Security in 2017! What can Smart Buildings expect?. This is a Q&A with Billy Rios, Founder of WhiteScope LLC. We take a deep dive into the Mirai DDoS Attacks […]
Fishing for Actionable Intelligence in our Rapidly Growing Data Lakes
With the advent of the internet of things, the amount of data being collected around the world is growing exponentially. We are collecting data with a current need in mind, we are collecting for future purposes and we are collecting it just to have it, in case we find a way to use it later. […]
Have We Considered What The Smart City Might Actually Mean For Society?
“The smart city was the wrong idea pitched in the wrong way to the wrong people,” suggested Dan Hill, of urban innovators the Future Cities Catapult. “It never answered the question: ‘How is it tangibly, materially going to affect the way people live, work, and play?’” Hill refers to the shiny new technology that has […]
Should a Smarter Building Mean a More Secure Building?
Since its recent resurgence, the access control sector has been constantly evolving to enable better security processes in the next generation of smart buildings. Moving from the physical key, to the radio frequency identification (RFID) card, to passwords, smartphones, video, fingerprints and other biometric identification. As access control goes digital so does its vulnerabilities. The […]
Lighting Controls Play a Key Role in the Smart Building Sector
Lighting is fundamental to an occupants experience in a building. Lighting accounts for approximately 40% of energy consumption in buildings. Lighting’s ubiquitous nature makes it the ideal platform upon which to establish the Internet of Things in Buildings (BIoT). These three statements underline the importance of lighting to the continued development of smart buildings as […]
Making Citizens The Center Of The Equation In A Collaborative Smart City
The city of Chicago received 182,000 claims, totaling $735 million, over just five years in regard to flooding alone. The key, it realized, was the ability of its soil to absorb water from rainfall. So the city enacted several initiatives from bioswales and planters containing highly absorbent plants, to permeable pavers to aid rainwater filtration. […]
Property Managers Are The “Nucleus” Of Smart Buildings
“I suspect the evolution of technology in our buildings is going to come rather quickly,” said Lachlan MacQuarrie, vice president, real estate management, with Oxford Properties Group, while moderating a seminar at the PM Expo in Toronto last month. “My advice would be: you probably don’t have as much time as you think you have.” […]
Audio: Why don’t we have REAL IP to the Edge?
For those who missed it or want to listen again, below is the Audio Stream from our 12th Free Webinar in the 2016 Smart Buildings Series, sponsored by Tridium. This is a Q&A Webinar with Tony Marshallsay, Mechanical Engineer at Omrania & Associates. We take a deep dive into how we can Improve Networking in […]
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