The?Middle East and Africa to double spending on smart building technology
Honeywell Building Solutions has entered a memorandum of understanding (Mou) with UAE systems integrator Smartworld to implement smart buildings projects in the UAE.
The new agreement has solidified a partnership between Smartworld and Honeywell Building...
The plethora of IoT devices used to monitor building systems and operations are making smart buildings more vulnerable to cyber attack,?according to research by cybersecurity firm ForeScout Technologies Inc. ?
ForeScout found that building automation systems in hospitals and schools are particularly vulnerable to cyber...
YoSmart, a manufacturer of smart building IoT devices, announced that it will integrate Semtech Corporation's proprietary wireless radio frequency technology, LoRa, into its smart building and home products. ?
?YoSmart provides large buildings like campuses and hotels with flexible solutions to maximize efficiency. Semtech?s LoRa...
Machine learning and artificial intelligence-based technologies in the smart building sector are generating new opportunities for value creation in commercial and industrial real estate. Innovations in image recognition, natural language processing and behavioral data are generating a deeper understanding of how occupants interact inside...
Creating a technology ecosystem for the world?s most innovative companies and startups starts with a state-of-the-art workplace and True Digital Park, Asia?s most ambitious smart development, is aiming to achieve just that.
True Digital Park, the first global startup and digital innovation hub in Thailand,...
With commercial and industrial office buildings consuming nearly 30% of world?s energy, it?s hard to overlook the impact of smart building innovation in the built environment. Much of the adoption of commercial real estate technology in 2019 will be driven by a need to...
For building owners and portfolio managers, improving tenant experience and future-proofing as technological advancements in 5G, IoT-based sensors and data analytics continue to expand at an increasingly rapid pace, remains top of mind.
The single most powerful means of unleashing the potential of real commercial...
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...
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...
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...
Nearly 60% of U.S. organizations to make smart building energy investments in 2019
More than 75% of U.S. companies and organizations are paying more attention to investments in energy efficiency and smart building technology with a focus on building controls and building systems integration, according...
Johnson Controls International (JCI) will sell its Power Solutions business due to its capital-intensive nature to Brookfield Business Partners L.P. in a cash transaction valued at $13.2 billion.
?Our power solutions business has built tremendous scale over the years, with leading market positions across the...
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...
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...
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...
How do more intelligent buildings fit into the big picture of smarter cities? Steve Teubner, smart buildings solution leader at EY, discussed the role of smart buildings in the broader city ecosystem at the recent Smart Cities Week D.C. conference.
"One of the things we're...
As IoT devices continue to play a dominant role in delivering energy savings in the smart building sector, AT&T has announced plans to partner with Synchronoss to introduce a building energy management platform for buildings operators.
The cloud-based solution will enable business owners to manage...
While the benefits of deploying a smart building infrastructure such as energy savings and improved occupant comfort are abundant, the burden of capital costs involved in their deployment often delay or limit their adoption.
Now, research by?Siemens Financial Services (SFS) shows there is potential for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
