Smart Cities
The Need for “Realness” in our Smart Cities and Buildings
April 11th, 2017New Forms of Energy Demand A New Form of Energy System
April 6th, 2017
Forget Smartphones, Nokia Wants To Build Smart Cities
Nokia was once king of the mobile phone, a household name and a constant presence in our lives. Back when cell phones were just cell phones, and when smart was just another word for clever… Ok, admittedly that wasn’t very long ago and Nokia is still fresh in our memories but despite its failure in […]
We Need To Talk About Artificial Intelligence
On the 11th of May 1997 Chess enthusiasts watched World Chess champion Garry Kasparov lose the sixth and final match of a novel but symbolic series. Kasparov lost this deciding match in just 19 moves against the IBM’s Deep Blue computer in New York. For many is was the first sign that computers would one […]
The Changing Nature of the Corporate – StartUp Relationship
A startup company grows and grows until it proven itself, then a corporation acquires it, at least that is how the old story goes. The new story, however, is quite different, at least in the smart building sector. “Corporations and start-ups have begun working together in fundamentally new ways, with a focus on flexible, early-stage, […]
Smart Construction Needs Smarter Construction Workers
“Energising a new house has become increasingly complex. Gone are the days of simply installing a phone line, running a handful of main cables, fixing a TV aerial and wiring up the doorbell,” says Tanuja Randery, Zone President UK & Ireland at Schneider Electric. Now, she says, there is an increasing demand for smart technology […]
Smart, Smarter, CyberSmart: Protecting the New Generation of Buildings
“Smart buildings are not an option for the 21st Century – they are a necessity,” begins a new whitepaper by Booz Allen Hamilton, in partnership with Johnson Controls – Cybersmart Buildings: Securing your investments in connectivity and automation. After summarizing the benefits and obstacles to smart building operation, the paper goes on to say, “It […]
Real Estate Service Firms Seek to Differentiate through PropTech and Early Stage Ventures
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research Real estate firms are joining the race to own the intelligent buildings sector as they seek to differentiate their third party services to building owners and operators worldwide. CBRE Group, Inc. is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm with 2016 […]
The Innovative Startups that could bring AI & Blockchain to Smart Buildings
The world is full of new technologies promising to reshape society but perhaps none are more exciting and wide-ranging than artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. The smart building sector has begun to embrace and understand the potential of these technologies for its own continued growth. “With the advent of artificial intelligence in the smart building […]
Can We Live in a Smarter World without Giving Up our Privacy?
“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” said the then CEO of Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy, in 1999. Two key things have happened on this topic in the 18 years since his, then shocking, comments; we have less privacy and we seem to have accepted it. To say that we have accepted it is […]
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