Schneider Electric this week announced the formal launch of its $565 million venture capital fund at its Innovation Summit in Atlanta.
The new venture fund, dubbed Schneider Electric Ventures, will invest in startup projects and partnerships with entrepreneurs who can provide solutions to boost its...
When you think about the billions of dollars that big tech spends creating over-the-top amusement park-like complexes, it?s clear that recruiting the best talent in the industry requires more than just a great compensation or bonus package - it?s all about building a smart...
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, announced a new family of 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) IoT-ready wireless Wi-FI access points and complimentary access switches to enable secure, AI-powered mobility innovations for the edge.
?Customers are increasingly looking to leverage digital transformation to drive amazing experiences at...
Schneider Electric and Lidl, Finland's third-biggest grocery and retail store chain, will build the nation's first 100% energy efficient, industrial microgrid and IoT-enabled building automation system for a new distribution center in J?rvenp??, Finland.
Expected to be the largest distribution center in the country, Lidl?s...
Panelists discussed the technology trends and challenges poised the reshape the smart building of the future at the MIPIM PropTech NYC?s event this week.
Among the top trends were managing an increasing demand for flex space, digital connectivity and user-centric focused design. Enterprise tenants and...
A generation of tech-savvy millennials are not only demanding connectivity in the workplace but are also transforming the hospitality industry.
While it?s no secret that millennials will make up more than half of the global workforce by 2020, they are also the largest segment...
The resounding message from Michael Philips, president of Jamestown and a keynote speaker at MIPIM?s PropTech NYC conference is to create technology-enabled, frictionless workplaces that attract and retain top talent for commercial real estate tenants.
?The race for talent has become everyone?s obsession. We find...
Fortune 500s driving adoption of workplace-as-a-service
With its start as a business model largely associated with software and servers, the as-a-service concept is currently shaking up the commercial real estate world as companies like WeWork, Industrious, Davinci and others are betting that delivering workplace-as-a-service is...
NEW YORK--With nearly $6 billion invested this year from both venture capital funds and industry insiders, investment in Proptech is just beginning said panelists at the MIPIM PropTech NYC event.
?We just got started; it?s still very much a virgin market. Valuations are going higher,...
MIPIM and MetaProp NYC have partnered to organize the MIPIM PropTech NYC conference, a premier real estate technology event, which will take place amid New York real estate tech week on November 6.
With more than 100 delegates joining from 35 countries and 70 plus...
Siemens? fast-paced acquisitions of J2, Enlighted and Comfy this year portend the company?s keen interest in maintaining a foothold in the coveted smart building sector in coming years. In a one-on-one discussion with the?President of Siemens? Building Technologies division - Americas, Dave Hopping talked...
Hana property management service pairs users with co-working space
After WeWork?s became the largest leaseholder in New York city with 5.3 million square feet, more players are entering the co-working office market. Now CBRE Group, Inc. has announced the launch of Hana, of new property...
The massive adoption of the internet of things ( IoT), data-driven analytics and machine learning in smart building applications has paved the pathway for a transformative technology once used in the manufacturing sector called? a digital twin. While the digital twins concept is not...
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...
Today LED lighting systems not only provide energy savings to building owners and operators. Now, LED human-centric lighting systems are being used to improve patient well-being and workplace performance in hospitals both Europe and the United States.
Human-centric lighting systems are built to adjust to...
In the in-building wireless connectivity world, progress is often viewed through the lens of enabling pervasive data connectivity for all employees working in a particular building at a given time. However, the impacts of building automation, and IoT in general, will have a potentially...
Recently, CBRS and shared spectrum solutions have become the darling of the in-building wireless world. At a simplistic level, CBRS is envisioned to use standardized LTE technology propagated over unlicensed, or lightly licensed spectrum to build private wireless networks that can be managed either...
While DAS is essentially a prerequisite for equipping large venues with robust in-building coverage, it remains true that most commercial real estate buildings fall below the size threshold where DAS is an economically viable option. In these cases, wireless coverage has largely been left...
Although refrains such as ?DAS is dead?, and referring to new in-building wireless technologies as ?DAS killers? have become fashionable, both phrases are used more as clickbait than actual market analysis. In fact, when it comes to making in-building wireless more robust to meet...
According to a survey conducted by the Mobile Sports Report in 2016, nearly 90% of venues surveyed indicated that they had deployed at least a partial DAS, and 75% of the venues surveyed indicated that they had some level of Wi-Fi coverage present. However,...
FCC sets rules on priority access licenses for CBRS spectrum
After a protracted process, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission finalized rules governing priority access to the shared 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band. Prior to its vote, the operative issues were around the geographic...
JLL Spark, the Proptech investment arm of JLL, announced that it will invest $1.5 million in San Francisco-based VergeSense, a developer of a smart building sensor-as-a-service office utilization platform.
VergeSense?s platform enables building owners and their enterprise tenants to collect and measure real-time occupancy and...
WeWork, the largest occupier of office space in Manhattan, has continued to rapidly expand in the enterprise market through innovative product offerings like Powered by We (PxWe), its office space ?as-a-service? offering.
Now, the company?s white-label product is being led by a commercial real estate...
IBW is taking off, driven by a convergence of technologies (small cells and CRAN, new DAS architectures, MEC, CBRS, MulteFire), connectivity needs (IoT, enterprise and venue applications, high-capacity/low-latency connectivity in venues), and business models (private networks, neutral hosts).
This report looks at the evolution...
