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Smart buildings ? those that deliver outstanding outcomes for all users, through digital technology, to exceed their evolving expectations ? have the power to transform the way we live, work and communicate. With the right technology at their fingertips, landlords can equip their offices...

The DALI Alliance, the trade group representing the DALI smart-lighting interface, has released a new gateway specification to allow intelligent lighting fixtures to talk to Bluetooth mesh networks, and to share analytics across building management systems. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the trade association...

Telenor hopes Bldng.ai will help it become a dominate player in Norway's smart building market Norway-based telecoms group Telenor announced the creation of a new smart building subsidiary Bldng.ai as part of its plan to become the largest provider in Norway?s smart building market. The subsidiary,...

The commercial real estate (CRE) market is in dire straits, and desperate for change. It was up the creek already, even before Covid-19 forced the current, holed the boat, and swiped the paddle. And even if the latest IoT tech promises to furnish old...

IoT connectivity provider Wirepas has closed a monster-sized deal with smart lighting provider Ingy for 100,000 units of its mesh networking solution, to be combined with Ingy’s indoor lighting control solutions. It is the biggest smart lighting deal to date for Finland-based Wirepas, providing...

A number of major IoT outfits are collaborating under the auspices of the Zigbee Alliance to develop a new application-layer connectivity standard for the smart buildings market. Members of the strategy group leading the work include the likes of Legrand, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductors,...

  A total of 104 U.S. companies, schools, governments, and institutions have used the Department of Energy's Smart Energy Analytics Campaign, a four-year initiative funded through the Building Technologies Office and facilitated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to expand the use of energy...

  ABB announced the launch of its first series of virtual innovation shows for smart buildings, since experts are predicting that 30% of the global workforce will work from home at least once a week by 2021. The innovation shows will bring together a panel of...

Now, because of COVID-19, health and safety are critical for buildings and facilities. Since the pandemic, the insecurities of outdated access control technology and systems have increasingly become a concern. In order to increase safety and mitigate the current health crisis, touchless access control...

I was supposed to go to Cannes, France in March, and then maybe in June, for the annual MIPIM event. Instead, I ended up engaging with the event virtually, trading the South of France for my one-bedroom apartment in Madison, WI. I realize that,...

The trade groups representing Bluetooth technology and the DALI smart-lighting interface are working together to promote their technologies as complementary IoT standards for commercial indoor lighting systems. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the trade association that oversees Bluetooth technology, and the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance...

German industrial giant Siemens has called for the planet to urgently prioritise digital technologies, of the type it is selling, in order to meet environmental and societal challenges, and to equip the economy with the working tools to better cope in mass-crisis scenarios, such...

This is an excerpt from a new editorial report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ new Digital Industry Solutions series. The report, called Smart Lighting as a Platform – for Buildings and Cities’ – is available to download in full (for free) – click here. Lighting...

Coverage first, everything else second, for in-building cellular investment With businesses and consumers being bombarded by advertisements touting the advanced features enabled by 5G, and building owners trying to make sense of the diverse technologies that fit under the "smart building umbrella," it's important to...

According to?Himanshu Khurana, CTO of Honeywell Building Solutions, while the term ?smart building? might be used by some verticals and not others, various industries and environments, including hospitality, airports and hospitals are all showing increased interest in establishing smarter ecosystems. ?The stakeholders care about the...

Nearly 4 in 10 smart building surveyed have been affected by a malicious cyberattack, according to report Capable of near real-time data transfer speeds and reduced latency, 5G is expected to facilitate more and better IoT applications for intelligent building technologies over the next few...

With help from Connectivity Wireless Solutions, Coretrust Capital Partners?is employing 5G to transform its downtown Los Angeles tower into a smart building. The transformation, which includes a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) comprised of 317 multi-band antennas and 20 software defined remotes for fiber optic...

The smart building will have a DAS comprised of 317 multi-band antennas With help from Connectivity Wireless Solutions, Coretrust Capital Partners is employing 5G to transform its downtown Los Angeles tower into a smart building. The transformation, which includes a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) comprised of...

Buildings and transportation use cases are well served by combining unlicensed Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN, according to a new white paper from the two organisations responsible for developing and promoting the technologies. The Wireless Broadband Alliance and the LoRa Alliance have said use cases in the...

Australian firm Willow has launched a new offering that allows owners of existing buildings to leverage their smart building investments by integrating the data and functionality of these disparate systems into the WillowTwin solution. The company said that the process of modernizing existing buildings faces...

Fiber connectivity underlies a wide range of smart city applications Smart city is something of a broad term that generally refers to using wired or wireless sensors to gather data which is feed into a compute infrastructure, analyzed, then used to initiate an outcome that...

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...

The role that IoT can play in the physical building security can have massive implications on a comprehensive intelligent building solution.? At its most basic level, physical security can be enhanced in a number of ways by leveraging IoT sensors and/or cloud connectivity.? Briefly...

Experiential consumerism is the term that describes the immersive experience that retailers are going to have to provide in the future to attract and woo customers. For some, older consumers, this can be described as the ability to try on a shirt in a store...