Smart Sensors
A New Layered & Probabilistic Approach To Occupancy Sensing
September 13th, 2018Sensors Based on Graphene Devices Incorporated into the Building Fabric
August 31st, 2018
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 […]
Elevating Smart Buildings to the Next Level with Predictive Maintenance
At the 1853 World’s Fair, in New York’s Crystal Palace, 40-year-old Elisha Otis stood upon a platform 10 meters in the air and ordered axemen to cut the only rope that was suspending it. In front of an amazed crowd the rope was severed, but the platform only fell a few inches before it came […]
Small & Medium Sized Commercial Buildings are Well Behind the Curve for IoT Adoption
The vast majority of commercial buildings are yet to fully exploit the potential of intelligent control systems, let alone attempt to integrate multiple business and building systems together into the building Internet of Things (BIoT). That’s according to our latest research report The Internet of Things in Smart Commercial Buildings 2018 to 2022, which identifies […]
Doing More with Building Data: Exploring the Fundamental Driving Forces of the BIoT
“The IoT is steadily transforming the way that facilities managers, building owners and operators can gather and analyze building systems performance data, as well as changing the way building users interact within the built environment,” states our latest report The Internet of Things in Smart Commercial Buildings 2018 to 2022. Cost of sensors is a […]
Architecture, Engineering, IT & Science Combine to Create Cybertecture
“Design is everywhere and is shaping everything… Design is being used to address the great challenges for achieving sustainability, alleviating poverty, providing affordability and delivering resilience for our world,” said Architect James Law, speaking at the 10th ‘Future Forum’ in Abu Dhabi. Law’s firm, Cybertecture International, provides leading edge architecture design, interior design, planning consultancy […]
The Future Workplace is “Not a Place Where You Have to go; It’s a Place Where You Want to go”
“It is true that the way organizations are resetting the relationship between people, technology, and space, the way that work fits within cities — all of these things are hugely in flux at the moment. In 2018, for once I actually believe the hyperbole around transformational change. The future of work shouldn’t be underestimated,” Jeremy […]
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