If you are in the commercial real estate sector, you?ve heard the buzzword: PropTech. Often used to refer to anything tech- and real estate-related, the word?s ubiquitous use has many of us wondering what is PropTech.
While there are many ways to define PropTech, the...
While most building owners don?t want to think about it, commercial buildings, newsrooms, concert venues, and other highly-populated areas are established targets for mass shootings, making security and surveillance the utmost priority in public places. The number of mass shootings incidents in the U.S....
JMA Wireless said its TEKO DAS solution will provide in-building support for three mobile carriers
JMA Wireless is enabling advanced in-building cellular connectivity at Haus der Musik (House of Music), which will be opening its doors in Innsbruck, Austria, next month.
JMA Wireless has provided its...
CBRS presents private LTE opportunity for building owners, neutral hosts
Conversations and news out of Mobile World Congress Americas last week in Los Angeles served as a reminder that, despite an ongoing lag at the regulatory level, the telecom ecosystem is ready to get to...
Healthcare facilities are some of the most expensive projects built today. With the average construction costs per square foot ranging from $400 to $1,000, building a new 500-bed hospital can cost more than $1 billion.
The University of Texas Southwestern research hospital, a 1.3 million...
A tech-savvy workforce and requirements from IoT, predictive analytics and cloud-based technologies are increasing the demand for a future-proof network cabling architecture inside of commercial office buildings. While most building owners delegate cabling decisions to IT staff and facility managers, it?s important to understand...
Vendor Airspan adds Wi-Fi backhaul to third-generation Magic Box
With more than 260,000 units distributed to consumers and businesses, last week during Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles Sprint announced the third-generation of its plug-and-play, all-wireless Magic Box small cell.
Network infrastructure vendor Airspan is...
Today?s building management systems are becoming more intelligent and powerful through billions of connected internet of things devices and many building owners are deploying these solutions to reduce labor and energy cost to improve their ROI and differentiate themselves from competitors.?
The IoT's economic impact...
For today?s employers, getting the most out of their workers matters. With human capital comprising more than 70% of a company?s operating spend, attracting and retaining top talent becomes essential and commercial office tenants are looking to commercial buildings to provide seamless integration of...
It?s impossible to make a smart building without the ability for all its systems to communicate with one another-interoperability. Today more than ever the proliferation of intelligent building technologies designed and manufactured by a plethora of companies need to communicate universally if they expect...
Most 5G applications are in-building
LOS ANGELES--Right now carriers are focused on building out 5G outside; serving up next-generation cellular inside buildings hasn't emerged as a major priority just yet. And that's a missed opportunity, according to Luigi Tarlazzi of CommScope.
"You look at the details...
While smart building technologies aimed at increasing occupant comfort and energy savings have dominated the rhetoric in the commercial office and industrial sectors, nowhere else can these technologies have a more significant impact than in the healthcare industry where optimizing for savings under ballooning...
While connectivity and automation have led to a tremendous opportunity in the smart building sector promising significant efficiency, safety and comfort to building owners and occupants, these systems are also increasingly becoming targets for hackers and cyber attacks, and building owners need to deploy...
While REITs have underperformed for most of 2018 due to rising interest rates and investments moving to tech industry markets, their stock prices have been boosted by an increasing demand for data centers.
The US S&P 500 REIT Index has remained between the 270...
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...
In the competitive world of enterprise cellular connectivity, teaming up with the right value-added distributor can make all the difference in market expansion and customer adoption for both the manufacturers and the resellers/system integrators of the technology. A good value-added distributor is much more...
Today, many new startups are leveraging the proliferation of the internet of things, machine learning and energy savings solutions to bring about massive innovation to the smart building arena. Here?s a list of the ten companies that are developing technologies capable of reshaping the...
CEO of signal booster specialist SureCall looks to the 5G future
5G signal boosters will be an essential part of delivering next-generation services inside buildings, Hongtao Zhan, SureCall CEO, told RCR Wireless News in an interview. The executive said the technology could be in market...
Connectivity Wireless is a DAS provider
Two of Chicago?s top Class A office buildings are ramping up their in-building wireless cellular connectivity to meet tenant demands for improved cellular coverage. Building owners of both Michigan Plaza and 181 W. Madison have installed modern DAS solutions...
New York City?s iconic Empire State Building?last month re-opened its doors after the successful completion of the first phase of its reimagined observatory designed for occupant comfort and sustainability. By relocating the visitors' entrance at 20 West and 34th Street, the building now provides...
With more than 2,500 public safety agencies signing on for AT&T's FirstNet and more in the pipeline, building owners should consider upgrades to their in-building wireless systems to meet public safety mandates.
FirstNet, a private-public partnership between the U.S. government and AT&T, was designed after...
SAS and DAS come together as CBRS Alliance looks to Q4 OnGo deployments
The industry is eager to put valuable spectrum in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band to work. The CBRS Alliance, an industry trade group working to advance adoption of shared...
Tenants care about the ROI of building automation while building owners are primarily concerned with the NOI that their buildings generate. A key question facing the industry is whether these objectives are complementary or conflicting.
At a simplistic level, Return on Investment (ROI) refers to...
While much of the attention surrounding 5G has been on the provision of carrier-based outdoor mobile connectivity services, significant mobile use originates indoors. As the increased proliferation of IoT devices and convergence of in-building technologies through the deployment of artificial intelligence, big data and...
