Pandemic
New Challenges for Commercial Real Estate Mean New Challenges for Cities
April 20th, 2021The Competitive Advantage of Having a Healthy Smart Building Has Never Been Greater
April 13th, 2021
GIS Goes Indoors to Bring a New Level of Visual Data Intelligence to Buildings
Geographic information system (GIS) has been around for a long time, dating back to the 1960’s or earlier by many accounts, it has helped urban and regional planners better understand their environment with data rich mapping. In recent decades, GIS has become an important business tool, helping companies understand patterns, trends, and relationships by using […]
2020 Reshaped the Workplace, 2021 Will Reshape the Workforce
2020 has become synonymous with COVID-19 and with vaccines being released towards the end of the year, many celebrated the arrival of 2021 like it was an end of the pandemic and a return to some kind of normality. This is, of course, not the case. While we continue to make remarkable strides to end […]
Pandemic Adaptation Means Smarter Commercial Buildings
The world has not had a pandemic on this scale for a very long time. Comparable crises come from a distant past where statistics are largely estimated, when our society was less globalized, and many steps back in our ability to enact public health regulation. Many of the previous viruses themselves may have been as […]
The Data Privacy Debate Has Not Changed But The World Has
We have been Imagining the “Pandemic-Smart” Buildings of the Future since the early stages of the global COVID-19 crisis. Adapting existing technology and placing greater emphasis on emerging technology that offers safety and infection-slowing applications to get people back into commercial buildings. Occupancy analytics for social distancing, fever-identifying thermal cameras, and an array of contactless […]
Imagining the “Pandemic-Smart” Buildings of the Future
We are in the midst of an unprecedented global crisis. Pandemics have happened before, many of them more deadly than we expect COVID-19 to be, but in our increasingly populated and globalized society, the impact and the reaction are different. Today, in our highly connected world of smartphones and smart buildings, we should be better […]