Smart Buildings

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

?IoT will generate the data that will drive intelligence that will enable the automation that will support the Fourth Industrial Revolution.? Not to toot my own horn, but I said …

In-building connectivity 101: DAS, CBRS and LP-WAN covered the reasons why these three aforementioned technologies are great candidates to help solve building connectivity issues. Here we discuss key trends that …

In Smart Buildings 101: How connected is connected enough? we discussed key reasons why buildings that do not offer a premium connectivity experience could be in danger of becoming unattractive …

Connectivity in commercial office space has been nearly ubiquitious for 30 years. So, exactly how connected does a building have to be “smart”? For most white collar workers in the …

If somebody told you 20 years ago that lighting would become one of the most prolific of smart building technologies in the world today, no one would have believed it. …

With a stronghold in artificial intelligence and machine learning and an emphasis on sustainability, big tech companies like Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Apple, Google, and Amazon have become center of the …