Sensor Fusion
“If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It”: The Path to Better Buildings
May 31st, 2017The “Perfect” Smart City Will Be One That Provides A Platform For Organic Growth
May 3rd, 2017Will A Truly Smart Building Be Emotionally Intelligent?
“Imagine your fridge working with you to eat healthier, or your wearable and TV team up to get you off the couch! Your bathroom mirror senses that you’re a bit stressed and interacts with your lighting to adjust it while turning on the right mood-enhancing music,” it states on the website for emotional recognition firm […]
The City as a Circuit Board: Smartness through Connectivity
Picture a modern city at night, viewed from directly above. Reminiscent of a circuit board with different electronic components (buildings) connected by conductive tracks (roads) to create one functioning entity from many smaller elements. Signals (people) travel along defined copper traces (roads) to deliver information and instructions to different parts of the circuit board. This […]
New Developments in Location-Based Services for Smart Buildings
Last week Rivada Networks was granted a Japanese patent, covering its enhanced Location-Based Services (LBS), to add to its patents in the US, Canada, South Korea, Australia and Russia. Rivada’s eLBS offers up to a five-fold increase in location accuracy in “GPS-stressed environments” by using a combination of sensor fusion and, where available, ad hoc […]