Smart Sensors
The Living, Breathing, Thinking, Learning – Human Smart Building
November 15th, 2019Q3 Overview of Acquisitions in the Smart Buildings Space
October 8th, 2019
The Need for Partnerships is Creating a Complex Smart Building Ecosystem
Digitization of the building industry is not so different from other industries. The same waves of disruption seen in the evolution of operating models in retail, hospitality, taxi services, the music industry, and many more, are now lapping on the shoes of the smart building. Former CEO of AOL, Steve Case, has broken these waves […]
How Will Independent System Integrators Deliver Data-Driven Buildings?
Over the last 10 years there has been a slow progress towards Data-Driven Buildings and even today we are still some years away from being able to deliver cost effective solutions to satisfy building owners / operators. In order to achieve Smart Buildings we need to breakdown the silo’s between all the building services and […]
Like “a Motherboard for Buildings”
The Internet of Things (IoT) is infiltrating every corner of the building. Systems like heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), lighting and access control have already been revolutionized by connectivity. More recently, elevators, windows, and furniture have been given a smart makeover. Now, a Toronto firm wants to go one step further by integrating IoT […]
A New Layered & Probabilistic Approach To Occupancy Sensing
“Occupant presence and behavior in buildings is considered a key element towards building intelligent and pervasive environments. Yet, practical applications of energy intelligent buildings typically suffer from high sensor unreliability,” highlights a recent paper that proposes a fundamentally new way of inferring occupancy in smart buildings. The study has been able to demonstrate an additional […]
Sensors Based on Graphene Devices Incorporated into the Building Fabric
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Independent Senior Research Associate at Memoori. As part of the Building Internet of Things (IoT) trend, sensors are being mounted everywhere – on ceilings, walls, desks or incorporated into lighting fixtures at a rapid rate. In view of their proliferation, a new graphene-based solution in which sensors are […]
Timber Skyscrapers, Smart Paving, Weather Resistant Outdoor Spaces… Google’s Smart City Project in Toronto
Since Alphabet gave birth to Google’s smart city sister company, Sidewalk Labs, we have been wondering what a “city built by Google” would look like, how it would function, and what innovative features it might include. Over the past year or so, since the announcement that Toronto has been chosen as the location for its […]
IBM & Threatcare Discover 17 Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Smart Cities
“An actor who is determined to incite mass chaos could create far greater impact with minimal effort if security for sensors and controls is not strengthened,” reads a 2018 report by IBM entitled: The Dangers of Smart City Hacking. The paper follows an investigation by IBM X-Force Red and Threatcare that discovered 17 zero-day vulnerabilities […]
Turning Entire Cities into Batteries with Energy Storing Cement
Instead of adding batteries to buildings in order to turn them into virtual power plants, what if we could use the building itself to store electricity? That is the thinking behind research at the University of Lancaster in the UK that has come up with a “smart cement” that is able to cost effectively store […]
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