Smart Cities
Google Goes Underground with its Toronto Smart City Project
March 1st, 2019Moving Past the Era of Underperformance to an Age of Better Building Construction
February 27th, 2019
Public Key Infrastructure could Emerge as De Facto Credential for IoT Devices
You can’t just walk into a secure building and start tampering with the air conditioning or access control systems without proper authorization, such as a pre-registered ID from a trusted company. On the cyber-side of our smart buildings, however, security failings mean that hackers can virtually stroll into the building and access whichever system they […]

WeWork Sells Office Space, We Company Sells an Entrepreneurial Culture
WeWork sits on the ledge between being an overvalued real estate player, and being one of the key driving forces for an innovation-focused movement that is redefining the way companies and workers operate. However, recent deals may mark a turning point, allowing the firm to develop resilience while also supporting its primary vision. Critics say […]

The Technology Keeps Evolving – The Skills Gap is Widening
The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) is taking place, driving us into the Data Age. Just as with steam power, electricity and computing, the impact of this data revolution will be felt across modern society as homes, buildings and workplaces adopt more intelligent, connected devices and systems. Just as with previous technological leaps, the rate of […]

Smart Buildings Set For Big Smart City Integration Drive in 2019
A city is essentially just a collection of buildings. A smart city, therefore, should be a collection of smart buildings. However, the development of smart buildings and smart cities has, so far, been relatively independent of one another. At the door of the building, a new network begins, with a new set of applications, and […]

New Paper Underlines Blockchain’s Importance to the Future Energy System
The future of our energy system is distributed and complex. Made up of billions of endpoints – microgrids, renewable energy, smart buildings, appliances, sensors and energy management software – interacting with one another in multiple ways. The future of energy involves consumers and prosumers, it handles fluctuating renewable energy sources, utilizes energy storage, and it […]

Opportunities Beyond the Building – It’s All About Breaking Down the Silos
Buildings have traditionally been designed as somewhat isolated units protecting occupants from the outside world. While buildings still need to protect people from the elements, like the first buildings were designed to do, the modern world demands more complex relationships between buildings and their urban environment. Energy no longer just flows into a building but […]

Webinar: Driving Sustainable Buildings Through Occupant Health & Wellbeing
Please Join us on Wednesday 12th December 1700 CET | 1100 EST | 0800 PST for our 12th FREE Webinar in the 2018 Smart Buildings Series, Sponsored by Haystack Connect. Driving Sustainable Buildings Through Occupant Health & Wellbeing Memoori Talks to Christopher Pottage from Skanska UK about his data-driven approach to the application of healthy […]

Developing Business Culture on the Journey Towards Data-Driven Buildings
Collecting and analyzing buildings data is not a new process and the emergence of the Internet of Things in Buildings (BIOT) has begun to generate enormous amounts of data and information about buildings in recent years. However, the real estate and smart buildings markets have been relatively slow to develop a data-driven culture within their […]