BROWSING: Buildings

  Arrow Electronics, in cooperation with Rigado and Iconics, has launched a new IoT-based solution for smart buildings. The new offering is a smart occupancy and floor space monitoring solution. Based on an Arrow-designed and -sourced set of IoT sensors, gateways and software, the Rigado Cascade and...

Ofcom will open up a large tranche of the UK airwaves for enterprises to deploy private and shared networks, dedicating the 3.8-4.2 GHz band for local deployments, requiring national operators to relinquish unused licensed spectrum to enterprises, and making available the lower 26 GHz...

  Private equity firm?Huron Capital announced its building automation and energy services platform, Albireo Energy, has acquired Alabama Controls, a provider of building automation and HVAC control solutions as well as equipment and parts sales. Albireo has already invested in 15 companies through nine separate acquisitions....

  The Fairhair Alliance has announced the publication of the Fairhair Specification, which defines a common Internet Protocol-based network infrastructure for buildings, independent of the application ecosystem, and based on open standards. Fairhair is an organization of companies from the lighting, building-automation, semiconductor and IT industries...

With the rise of connected devices in homes and offices spiralling upwards, Paul Hague, chief executive at UK cybersecurity firm BlackDice, says enterprises are letting vulnerable home devices onto their networks and walking blindly into a cybersecurity nightmare. The internet of things (IoT) hasn’t changed...

The rise of private industrial networking should be measured by the number of new networks, and network operators, and not by the number of cell sites, reckons Italy-based industrial networking specialist Athonet. Speaking at a MulteFire-sponsored panel session, chaired by Enterprise IoT Insights (way...

Slicing should make enterprise networking as simple as electricity supply, and more dynamic, says Vassilis Seferidis, chief executive of Zeetta Networks. Here, he challenges the enterprise market to think bigger about network slicing. There’s a misconception about network slicing, that it’s a static solution, which...

  Belden, a specialist in signal transmission solutions for mission-critical applications, announced that it has been selected by Anixter to create cabling and connectivity solutions that align with the latter?s Utility Grade Infrastructure (UTG) platform to support smart buildings. Belden said that Anixter?s new technology platform,...

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...

  California-based building automation developer?J2 Innovations has launched a new software platform for building automation and IoT applications, the company said in a realease. The new software suite, dubbed FIN 5, provides monitoring, control, scheduling, alarming, visualization, integration, and analytics capabilities designed for OEM partners to...

For Nokia there are three critical technologies for enabling digital transformation of the supply chain, and all of the points along it, including the production, transportation, and storage of goods. These technologies are private networks, indoor positioning, and advanced analytics. "The combination will be of...

  Healthcare facilities not only demand robust in-building cellular connectivity, but also connectivity across expansive outdoor environments as staff need to stay connected and informed as they travel from building to building. ?A medical center?s wireless network is critical for multiple purposes such as enhancing patient...

Annual revenue for the global smart city technology market will jump from $97.4 billion in 2019 to $263 billion by 2028, a rise of more than 150 per cent, with cumulative revenue expected to reach almost $1.7 trillion. This is the forecast from analyst...

New Jersey-based Honeywell is a stalwart in smart energy systems, with focus particularly on industrial and enterprise solutions. It is proviidng managed smart grid services as a way for utilities to manage technical smart grid networks more easily, and enable improved electricity service and...

National Grid, the UK-based electricity and gas utility, has pumped money into a group of new energy tech providers, taking its total investment portfolio to $90 million. It has also set up a new start-up incubation office in San Francisco. National Grid Partners, the investment...

Dutch companies Gooee and Croonwolter&dros have signed a contract under which the former will connect more than 5,000 buildings managed by Croonwolter&dros in the Netherlands, onto the Gooee Building Intelligence Platform. Gooee?s platform?unifies building control, communication, sensing & data analytics. Meanwhile, Croonwolter&dros specializes in electrical engineering,...

United Arab Emirates-based Evoteq has signed a partnership with U.S.-based Johnson Controls to launch what Johnson Controls says is the first integrated artificial intelligence platform-as-a-service in the Middle East region. The main aim of this new platform is to digitally transform offices and operations into...

The Zigbee Alliance is coordinating efforts from the likes of Amazon, Comcast, Landis+Gyr, NXP, Osram and Schneider Electric to make smart home and IoT products easier to develop, deploy, and sell across ecosystems. The new All Hubs Initiative, driven by a Zigbee Alliance workgroup, is...

  EnOcean Alliance said that its program to digitalize building spaces and the internet of things has been significantly expanded and strengthened, with the addition of Microsoft as a board and promoter member of the alliance. ?As a member of the EnOcean Alliance, we encourage innovation...

  U.S firm Transformative Wave, a specialist in HVAC energy efficiency and building automation solutions, has unveiled ?Cobalt?, its next-generation building automation platform. The company said that the new platform has been developed using the latest internet of things (IoT) technology, without the limitations and costs...

Siemens will bring internet-of-things (IoT) technologies and solutions to the home stadium of the Jacksonville Jaguars, the American fooball team, based in Jakcsonville, Florida. The German firm has signed a deal with the Florida gridiron team to deploy its MindSphere IoT platform as part...

Arm has launched a work-space analytics tool, Space Analytics, to give property managers of coworking spaces, commercial offices and hotels a view of the utilisation and availability of offices and hospitality spaces. Space Analytics is part of its Pelion Smart Spaces portfolio, running...

Japanese firms Panasonic and Toyota have agreed to form a new smart cities joint-venture that combines the former’s expertise in the home gadgetry market and the latter’s work in the mobility space. The two companies will integrate their respective housing businesses, as part of the...

Semtech opens-up and makes-free its LoRaWAN Academy Semtech, the Californian chip-maker that owns and licenses the LoRa technology, is offering free educational modules via its LoRaWAN Academy for students, engineers, developers, and enterprises developing LoRa-based IoT solutions. The LoRaWAN Academy launched in late 2017 and initially...