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The Smart Building… As-A-Service
February 12th, 2018The Fate of the Humble Light Switch is at the Center of Future Lighting Design
February 1st, 2018
“Offices, Retail Stores, Hotels & Hospitals Are All Prime Candidates For Smart Technologies”
“Commercial buildings, including office, retail, hotel, and hospital buildings, can all benefit from installing smart technologies. However each of these sectors has its own unique business goals to achieve, stakeholders to satisfy, and barriers to overcome, so the opportunities are different for each sector. The most favorable technologies will also change over time, as smart […]
Cities Need To Get Smart About Food
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometric ratio, subsistence increases only in an arithmetic ratio,” wrote the famous 18th century British cleric and scholar Thomas Malthus in his Essay On the Principle of Population in 1798. In a more modern English he might have said – population grows exponentially but food production grows in a […]
The Financial and Environmental Cost of Older Buildings
Every business and homeowner knows that older buildings are generally more costly to run and that the key reason is energy efficiency. The inefficiencies of older commercial and residential buildings not only drive costs up for owners and tenants, the environment also pays a high price for their continued existence. Buildings are the single biggest […]
“The Network is Everything Around Us!” – Lunera’s Lighting Shift
“Not too long ago, we went from believing that the computer is the computer, to understanding that the network is the computer. Today, Lunera is leading the next shift, one that has the potential to be even bigger: the network is everything around us,” said John Bruggeman, chief executive officer at Lunera. “Until now, no […]
The Growing Case For Human-Centric Workplace Lighting
The results from more and more experiments are building an undeniable case for the productivity boosting abilities of human-centric office lighting. A number of studies in recent months have backed up scientific theories with real productivity data to show the significant role lighting can play in the functioning of an organization. A seven month study […]
The Smart Airport is a Very Different Prospect to Other Smart Buildings
You may not be surprised to hear that there has been another partnership between a lighting firm and an IT company. Such has been the surge of lighting into the IT sector that it seems that every month we see a new IT – lighting relationship forming. Many have been strategic partnerships while others are […]
Comfy’s People-Centric Approach to the Office Gains Traction
The Internet of Things (IoT) and smart buildings sectors are realising that when you focus building design and technology on people, you bring about better results. The objective of a smart building is fundamental to this idea; in a smart hospital the IoT can be focused on aiding healthcare professionals and supporting patients to improve […]
Indoor Location Ecosystems Support Vertical Solutions for Smart Buildings
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson Independent Senior Research Associate at Memoori. With the advent of IoT platforms, advanced sensors and improvements in network connectivity, there are an increasing number of companies offering Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) and Location Based Services (LBS) for various applications in commercial and industrial buildings. In-building location-based services can […]
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