Smart Sensors

Smart Buildings

Like “a Motherboard for Buildings”

October 26th, 2018
Smart Buildings

A New Layered & Probabilistic Approach To Occupancy Sensing

September 13th, 2018
Smart Cities

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 […]

Smart Cities

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 […]

Smart Buildings

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 […]

Smart Cities

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 […]

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