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Global BAS market to generate almost $6 billion in revenues by 2026: Study

The global building automation systems (BAS) market is estimated to reach $5.91 billion by 2026 from $4.69 billion in 2019, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 3.4%, according to a recent research by Frost & Sullivan. However, the global BAS market will be...

PropTech in the time of COVID-19

I was supposed to go to Cannes, France in March, and then maybe in June, for the annual MIPIM event. Instead, I ended up engaging with the event virtually, trading the South of France for my one-bedroom apartment in Madison, WI. I realize that,...

Tech alliances to promote IP as secure backbone for building automation

ACnet?International, KNX Association, OCF, Thread Group and the Zigbee Alliance have joined forces in an effort to better align commercial buildings with users' connectivity needs and to improve the integration of smart building products. These organizations behind the leading technology standards in the field of...

Commercial BAS market to reach revenues of $44.2 bn by 2029: Study

The commercial building automation system (BAS) market is expected to reach more than $44.2 billion globally by 2029, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.2% between 2020 and 2029, according to a new research from Navigant Research. The report noted that...

Adesto Technologies launches new edge server for building automation, IIoT

Adesto Technologies Corporation, a provider of application-specific semiconductors and embedded systems for the IoT segment, announced the general availability of its next-generation edge server for building automation and industrial IoT applications. The new offering, dubbed SmartServer IoT is an end-to-end industrial-rated IoT edge server. The...

Dasher Lawless and Siemens partner on automated parking garages

Automated parking a big space-saver for commercial real estate Population growth and migration to densely populated urban areas are increasing the requirements for parking, which continues to be a persistent problem for commercial real estate developers trying to maximize square footage to meet the demand...

Walmart’s robot janitors are coming to a store near you

The most significant artificial intelligence-based PropTech innovation to hit the shelves this week isn?t a digital twin or a smart building app - it's robot janitors. But fear not, they will not take your jobs, at least not yet. Walmart, the largest American multi-national retail...

Proptech Webcast: Cousins Properties Tech Talk

Join us for the opening episode of In-Building Tech?s PropTech Webinar series. PropTech has emerged as a force to be reckoned with and investments keep flowing in by the truck load. Commercial real estate assets are being transformed into technological wonders thanks to our incessant...

Japanese startup creates fully-automated warehouse run by robots

The world?s first fully-automated warehouse that requires no humans to fulfill tasks could be in warehouses and fulfillment centers very soon. ? Mujin, a Tokyo-base startup, claims to be the first fully-automated warehouse provider and showcased its technology at a tech show in Japan this...

Autonomous robots used to meet e-commerce demands at warehouses

Honeywell and Fetch Robotics partner on warehouse operations For landlords and owners of warehouse distribution centers, designing for growth means adopting innovative technologies that can meet the tremendous demands from e-commerce tenants. Today many warehouse owners are turning to robotics to keep pace with the...

Costco cites water optimization stats that blend altruism with cost savings

The United Nations predicts that the world will only have 60% of the drinking water it needs by 2030. If so, then water optimization might trump all IoT use cases. As part of its Mobile World Congress Americas messaging campaigns, Semtech and Apana announced that...

Editorial Report: LP-WAN vs. Cellular Connectivity for Intelligent Buildings

As buildings become smarter, the need to propagate signals will be challenged by a myriad of factors including the age of the building, the materials used in construction, the needs of a potentially diverse tenant base, and physical location just to name a few....

3 things to consider when implementing a building automation system (BAS)

A building?automation system (BAS) can provide many benefits to building owners and landlords, including higher energy efficiency, lower operating and maintenance costs, better indoor air quality, and greater occupant comfort and productivity. However, there are several essential factors that building owners need to consider...

Automation checklist: What makes your building smart?

As with people, the definition of what makes a building "smart" can be nebulous. People can have a high degree of cognitive intelligence, but be "stone cold" when it comes to emotional intelligence. If this were a psychology journal, we could delve into dozens...

Editorial Webinar: Transforming the workplace: Automation technology and use cases for smart buildings

Intelligent building technology is poised to transform nearly every aspect of the physical workplace in the coming years. From the ability to centralize the management of myriad of industrial control systems to the ability to create optimized micro-climates through out a building or factory...

Intelligent building automation supplier taxonomy

Below is a? one stop shop intelligent? building automation supplier taxonomy The intelligent building automation supplier pool is a large and growing ecosystem. While the tables below are not an exhaustive list, it does contain the names of more than 175 companies, grouped into major...

Does building automation focus too much on opex savings?

When most people think about intelligent buildings, they think about OpEx savings related to optimizing energy consumption? for good reason. The department of energy estimates that most buildings waste up to 30% of the energy that they consume due to inefficient HVAC and lighting systems....

Selling the value of intelligent buildings to C-suite stakeholders

To a managers of intelligent buildings, the allure of being able to leverage centralized industrial automation control systems to spend more time running a well-orchestrated system is preferable to hunting and pecking to trouble shoot problems any day. Along these lines, leveraging automation tools to...

Hospital automation will be on the front line of intelligent buildings

Building automation has a powerful role to play in virtually any workplace that relies on industrial controls for smoothly running operations. However, the confluence of regulatory compliance requirements, changing business models and customer expectations makes the healthcare industry a prime candidate for intelligent building...

The role of cloud in intelligent buildings

As intelligent buildings continue to emerge as a major pillar of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the use of public and hybrid cloud technology will hold the key to offering the economics and elasticity necessary for critical compute and storage resources required for a variety...