Lighting Controls
Buildings Could Make Up The Majority Of Connected Devices, But How Much Of A Building Is Now Connected?
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Lighting Positions Itself at the Heart of Smart Buildings
The first electric light was made by English scientist, Humphry Davy, in 1800 and later improved by compatriot Sir Joseph Wilson Swan. In 1877, American Charles Francis Brush began the electric light’s commercialisation before Thomas Edison’s experiments led to the style of light bulb we used for the next 100 years or so. None of […]

Smart City 2.0: Digital Industrial Companies And Urban Entrepreneurs
While still a relatively new sounding term, the ‘smart city’ has been a topic of discussion for over ten years now. This technology enabled urban development has been increasingly influential in our cities during the past decade but has recently taken a big step forward to what we might now call ‘smart city 2.0’. The […]

Will A Smart Office Really Make Us More Productive?
“Buildings are crucial enablers of economic activity but, if we’re honest about it, they frequently fail to live up to our collective expectations based on our experiences everywhere we live, work and play”, begins a new report by Schneider Electric’s, Preeti Bajaj. We have talked a lot about smart buildings providing more than just energy […]

Control Solutions Still Widely Misunderstood in Commercial Buildings
Control solutions are one of the most cost effective ways to substantially reduce operational, maintenance and energy bills in commercial buildings. However, most corporate real estate (CRE) managers still think of controls as expensive. This view is often due to a lack of awareness of today’s market disruptive innovators and new delivery channels, according to […]

The Internet of Things in Buildings will need to Disrupt Contractual & Tendering Procedures

Audio: LEDs Lighting the Way Towards Smart Cities
For those who missed it or want to listen again, below is the Audio Stream from our 1st FREE Webinar in our brand NEW 2016 Smart Cities Series. We have started a new series of Webinars to highlight the innovative Smart City Technology now coming to market and the cities implementing it. In this 1st […]
GE Current Makes Building Automation Statement with Acquisition of Daintree Networks
Last week, Current, GE’s energy services spin-off, announced the acquisition of Daintree Networks, a provider of connected building controls solutions for commercial facilities. GE states that the acquisition will enable Current to expand its building automation platform and its energy-as-a-service offering to small and medium size facilities through the deployment of Daintree’s open, standards-based wireless […]

Zumtobel Partners to Develop IoT Smart Lighting for Commercial Buildings
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. Zumtobel Group, a European architectural lighting company, recently announced that it is partnering with Bosch Software Innovations in the development of IoT connected lighting solutions for commercial buildings. “Bosch Software Innovations perfectly matches with our strategy to work with leading software partners outside the […]