BROWSING: Buildings

Smart building efficiencies continue despite building closures ABB Electrification has announced a number of measures to support its customers through the crisis caused by the widespread of the COVID-19 virus globally. Effective March 27 and until the end of the calendar year, ABB Electrification will waive the fee...

Estonian tech company Ninja Solutions transformed an office building in capital Tallinn into a contactless mode, the firm said in a release. The doors and elevators of the building are accessed via smartphone, and the building does not require physical security staff. Rented areas require biometric verification, accessed through...

The hottest new digital tech in the automotive space is not the electrification or automation of vehicles. It is not, actually, sensors or analytics in production facilities. Instead, it is augmented reality (AR), brought to life on voice-operated wearable computers, and sold as connected...

Nokia has reduced lead times for base station prototypes at factories in Finland and India by 50 per cent with the use of augmented reality (AR) for training on its product assembly lines, it has said. The company is using industrial AR – as...

Private industrial 5G will be at the heart of manufacturing production from 2021, Siemens has said, as the industrial giant continues to move ahead with test networks at its electronics works in Amberg and automotive centre in Nuremburg, both in Germany. Both deployments use Siemens’...

UK firm Telensa is combining indoor and outdoor smart lighting controls into a single management system with certain customers in the UK, the company has said. The projects, with unnamed customers, are among the first examples of integrated management of indoor and outdoor lighting systems,...

An Australian consortium has secured government funding for up to AUD28 million ($16.3 million) to carry out an initiative seeking to transform how buildings are designed and manufactured in Australia. Monash University, Lendlease, The University of Melbourne, Donovan Group, BlueScope, Sumitomo Forestry and CSR, along with 23 other partners, have...

Canadian company mCloud Technologies, which provides asset management solutions, announced that it is embedding advanced sensing technology from NYCE Sensors into its AssetCare solutions for Smart Facilities. NYCE Sensors focuses on IoT solutions for commercial building applications. mCloud has combined NYCE's wireless CO2 sensors for air duct...

With the roll-out of 5G networks, the shrinkage of radio cells, and challenge to negotiate cell sites, lighting infrastructure presents a valuable opportunity for city operators and building owners to get smart. Netherlands-based Signify has been leading the development of smart poles to host a...

Microsoft announced the rollout of a digital twin of its new regional headquarters at Frasers Tower in Singapore, in collaboration with Bentley Systems and Schneider Electric.  ?The workplace of the future is about embracing innovation into the very fabric of our space, so that we create multiple touchpoints of...

The vertical farming industry in its infancy, with most practitioners stuck in hobbyist production. But the fragile case for growing food in warehouses – automated and dynamic local production, using less water, less fertiliser, less energy – is alive and kicking, in the British...

Deutsche Telekom expects, in most cases, to manage private networks for enterprises, even if they are deployed in privately-owned spectrum, which is not licensed directly by the operator itself. Following its deal with BMW last month to install a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’ at...

Cellular is the best connectivity technology for smart street-lighting in cities, reckons Netherlands based lighting company Signify. The rise of ultra narrowband (UNB) for outdoor smart lighting in cities, popularized by UK rival Telensa, will not cut it, the company has said.  Proprietary UNB-based technologies,...

Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in February is the major venue and the key date for the telecoms industry. Yes, the cards have been dealt, but the show works as a useful barometer of its high mood. It kick-starts the season, effectively, after...

  ABB has agreed to acquire Irish company Cylon Controls to increase its presence in the smart building segment, the company said in a release. The acquisition enhances ABB Electrification business? position in the commercial buildings segment, according to ABB. Terms of the deal, including purchase...

Deutsche Telekom has installed a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’, hived off its public LTE network, at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Ericsson has supplied the networking gear for the project. The German operator said the deployment marks its fourth such campus installation. It has...

More detail has emerged about the private industrial 5G operations Lufthansa has pegged to its new holding in the 3.7-3.8 GHz spectrum in Germany, with Vodafone emerging, as well as Nokia, as early partner for the German airline’s technical services division. Separately of Nokia’s proclamation...

Note, this story has been referenced and updated in a new post, Lufthansa doubles-down with second private 5G trial – with help from Vodafone, which can be found here. German airline Deutsche Lufthansa (Lufthansa) has gained a spectrum licence for operating private LTE and...

  The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) announced $74 million for 63 selected projects to research, develop, and test energy-efficient and flexible building technologies, systems, and construction practices to improve the energy performance of the country?s?s buildings and electric grid. In a statement, the DoE said...

  A recent study carried out by Johnson Controls found that 75% of surveyed organizations across the U.S. plan to increase their investment in energy efficiency, renewable energy and smart building technology, a 16% increase over 2018. Johnson Controls? 2019 Global Energy Efficiency Indicator study surveyed...

Huawei said today at a London launch event for new 5G gear that it would prefer to go via the operator community to serve the Industry 4.0 movement, using slices of their licensed public networks to create dedicated networks for industrial automation and intelligence. It...

  The?Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)?has announced the winners of its?smart buildings challenge, which is aimed at helping digitalize the smart buildings industry. The winners of the challenge were announced at?Bosch Connected World 2020?in Berlin. ICC said that a jury selected the winners from a pool of...

Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), Bosch Group, and ZF Friedrichshafen Group have joined the steering committee for the Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP). BMW Group and Microsoft are already on board as founding members. OMP was established under the umbrella of the Joint Development Foundation, part of...

Nokia has struck a deal with Indian operator Bharti Airtel to offer private LTE and industrial AI to enterprises in the manufacturing and distribution sector. The pair said their partnership around private networking in India will also draw in customers in the financial services, information...