Money laundering continues to a common pain point for commercial real estate firms where large sums of capital often acquired illegally is moved from offshore accounts to pay for real estate transactions.
A whopping $1.1 trillion left developing countries in illicit financial outflows in 2013,...
The U.S. commercial office leasing market was lifted by strong job growth and GDP performance, and continued to climb a steady pace in the third quarter of 2018, according to a ?new report by Colliers.
Demand for office space was elevated with 84% of the...
An image of Audrey Hepburn eating a croissant as she peruses across the Fifth Avenue display cabinets in Breakfast at Tiffany's is perhaps what flashes in your mind at the mention of Tiffany & Co. ?However, what you might not remember are the old-fashioned...
For many years, the in-building wireless industry has coveted the mid-sized enterprise or “Middleprise” market opportunity. After all, the vast majority of cellular users are found not in large public venues such as stadiums or airports but, instead, in buildings used for offices, hotels,...
Located just outside of Frisco, Texas?s North Platinum Corridor is a private development built with AT&T's 5G evolution technology and is heralded as the most connected community in the nation.
Frisco Station, a 242-acre mixed-use comprised of commercial office, residential, medical, retail and restaurant district...
Until recently most building operations solutions have relied on static and siloed forms of data visualization which often provide incomplete and fragmented information regarding building operations. Now, Enertiv, a smart building operations specialist, has launched Enertiv 360, a new application that embeds real-time sensor...
Wireless internet connectivity has become a major consideration in the development of smart buildings. Eighty per cent of mobile usage occurs indoors today, and the infrastructure must be in place to support this demand. But it isn?t only smart phone usage which buildings will...
A record-breaking 1,000-plus members of the PropTech investor and startup community attended?CREtech's Venture Conference in New York City yesterday.
The event, which featured speakers ranging from angel to key venture capital private equity investors, offered startups and commercial real estate industry professionals the opportunity to...
The top commercial real estate brokerages are making massive PropTech investments in data analytics, according to a panel of experts who spoke at CREtech?s New York Venture Conference yesterday.
Big data will become the most critical technology driver in the commercial real estate brokerage industry,...
In today?s highly competitive marketplace, acquiring and retaining commercial tenants is less about the building and more about its occupants. A dramatic shift has taken place, making building owners who were once selling physical assets into service providers who now need to find ways...
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...
Heightened vigilance and real-time awareness have become increasingly important in preventing the loss of human life and addressing emergencies situations at university campuses. Now Texas A&M University-San Antonio (A&M-SA) has become the first campus in the world to deploy an indoor positioning system to...
As deadly wildfires continue to ravage homes in California?s Malibu coast, a new construction technology startup is building modular homes that can stand up to wildfires, floods, and other natural disasters. Boxabl, a Las Vegas-based company, has started prototype production of modular fireproof home...
The commercial real estate industry is undergoing massive structural change through a concept known as space-as-a-service. Space-as-a-service (SPaaS) is a paradigm shift in the way in which the commercial real estate industry has provided products and services to tenants and has changed the role...
McDonald?s improved employee workplace satisfaction by 76% through a smart building workplace app at the company?s new offices located in downtown Chicago.
?A simple feel-good moment, that was the corporate vision for our new headquarters. ?We wanted technology to drive the smart workplace experience and...
A smart building uses technology to lower operating costs and serve up amenities
What makes a building a smart building? Well, it depends who you ask, according to Brandon Van Orden, senior vice president and chief information officer for Cousins Properties, which boasts a portfolio...
As electrical systems in commercial office buildings and facilities age, the probability for system failures and safety issues increase exponentially - resulting in costly disruptions. Now Schneider Electric has created a new thermal-environmental smart building sensor, Access Connect which allows facility managers to monitor...
Boingo to deploy DAS at Grand Central, Jamaica Station and other transit locations
In a deal announced Nov. 28, Boingo Wireless said it has worked with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority to secure the wireless rights to outfit two transit facilities with distributed antenna systems...
While legacy commercial real estate VC?s continue to ignore the elephant in the room, industry outsiders are preparing to disrupt what's arguably the biggest opportunity in PropTech- the fractional ownership of real estate assets by offering digital security tokens.
Harbor, founded by serial entrepreneur and...
Why is 5G so important to industrial manufacturing plants?
5G will provide manufacturing robots and other IoT devices in industrial plants and manufacturing facilities with greater security, reduced latency and dramatically increased connection speeds and reliability. The latency angle is perhaps the most significant benefit...
The massive proliferation of PropTech startups seeking coveted investment dollars from a growing number of venture capital firms and other investors is making it difficult to separate the signal from the noise.
The state of the industry
In the last two years, more than $18.6 billion...
Many buildings have poor cellular coverage or dead zones indoors, which is an issue for occupants considering that 80% of calls are made indoors.
There are many factors that inhibit cellular signals, such as the size and construction of the building, environmental obstacles, and the...
Chicago-based commercial real estate firm, Zeller Realty Group (ZRG), is masterfully transforming the value in the Midwest commercial office marketplace by leveraging connectivity and proptech solutions to create amenity-based tenant communities.
We caught up with commercial real estate industry veteran and ZRG's Principal and Chief...
Partnering in U.K. for in-building small cells
Huawei jointly announced the launch of an in-building 5G system, dubbed a Digital Indoor System (DIS), to provide indoor cellular coverage at Istanbul?s new airport, and is partnering in the U.K. with neutral host provider Stratto?to provide improved...
