BROWSING: Buildings

New York City?s iconic Empire State Building?last month re-opened its doors after the successful completion of the first phase of its reimagined observatory designed for occupant comfort and sustainability. By relocating the visitors' entrance at 20 West and 34th Street, the building now provides...

UK start-up Skyports is ramping up activity in the US as it seeks to establish an international network of helipads for flying taxis and drone deliveries. Skyports has so far secured 15 rooftops in London as ‘vertipads’ for passenger and cargo drones. It is currently...

While the internet of things and cloud-based services are offering new ways to make buildings smarter and solve energy efficiency and occupant comfort issues, their disparate nature leaves many IoT devices siloed on the network. Now Igor, a provider of IoT tech for smart buildings...

  In this case study, Cobham Wireless explains how it provided in-building connectivity for Torre Diamante, which is Italy?s tallest steel building is located in Milan?s new business district, Porta Nuova   U.K.-based infrastructure company Cobham Wireless said it has installed its intelligent digital Distributed Antenna System...

Siemens AG, one of the largest industrial manufacturers in Europe, has acquired three California-based tech firms specializing in smart building technology in the past two months. The company?s fast-paced acquisitions of Comfy, Enlightened and J2 portends that the intelligent building marketplace is expected to become...

The emergence of data-driven tools and the availability of public information is enabling commercial real estate developers, architects and city planners to re-define development opportunities in urban cities. Envelope, an NYC-based startup, ?has developed a SaaS application which enables the use of public and proprietary...

Due to the development of the first smartphone, the way people communicate on a daily basis has evolved. The workplace reflects this change, as technology has enabled the flexibility and mobility employees now demand when considering ideal workspaces. Cell phones have even surpassed the...

Canadian IoT platform provider ThoughtWire has produced five new applications for building owners and healthcare providers to manage connected “people, systems and things”. ThoughtWire has introduced two new applications as part of its ‘smart building suite’ for operations performance management (OPM), and three for its...

By the Köln Ost junction on the A3 motorway in the North Rhine-Westphalia region in Germany, a group of engineers has mocked-up a 25,000 square-metre roadway network with a mash-up of internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in order to find ways to predict faults and failures...

The strong demand for same-day online shopping and e-commerce products has online retailers like Amazon boosting national markets for automated industrial warehouses and distribution centers?transforming the once the ugly ducklings of commercial real estate into profitable swans for both real estate investors and corporate...

The UK government has announced a £420 million joint investment in ‘bytes and mortar’ to use digital technologies in 'smart construction to develop new techniques for sustainable and rapid house building. The UK wants to deliver 1.5 million additional homes by 2022, alongside new...

Stockholm is a ‘lighthouse city’, alongside Cologne and Barcelona, in the European Commission’s GrowSmarter project, one of three to receive support in the first ‘Smart Cities and Communities’ (SCC1) call under the Horizon 2020 funding stream, the biggest innovation fund in Europe, with €80 billion allocated through...

General Electric reckons the convergence of machines, data and analytics will contribute $10 to $15 trillion to global GDP in efficiency gains over the next two decades. It has spent at least $1 billion to develop its own Predix platform, like an industrial internet...

Smart buildings create a win-win for owners, occupants The continued perpetuation of internet of things (IoT) implementations is bringing to life digital transformation across nearly all enterprise and industrial verticals. In the case of smart buildings, in-building connectivity, IoT sensors and cloud-based data analytics are...

The German firm said the acquisition of Enlighted will be closed during the third quarter German firm Siemens expects to close the acquisition of California-based Enlighted, a provider of smart internet of things (IoT) systems in buildings during the third quarter of 2018. The acquisition was...

LLTS' smart city, campus and building solutions provides energy management, cloud-based space occupancy and asset utilization and performance management   Indian engineering and research firm L&T Technology Services (LTTS), announced new smart city, campus and building solutions integrations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service for...

IT/OT convergence key enabler for successful smart buildings LAS VEGAS--From the in-building wireless systems that support IoT sensors to the mobile apps that let facilities managers have real-time, granular access to operational data, technology can deliver smart buildings that create ROI and operational efficiencies. But,...

Siemens said the acquisition of Califonia-based J2 Innovations will allow the firm to grow its business in this segment German firm Siemens confirmed that it is acquiring California-based J2 Innovations, a software framework provider for building automation and the internet of things. J2 has been operating...

Honeywell?s new software suite allows the smart integration of air and ground traffic control with maintenance operations Honeywell has launched a new smart airport technology with the main aim of enhancing the safety and efficiency of airside operations at airports. The Honeywell NAVITAS software suite enables...

For technologists, airports in general, and the planet?s busiest ones in particular, are like smart cities in microcosm. They encapsulate a head-spinning array of services and applications, covering everything from waste collection and traffic management to private retail and mission-critical controls. Threading new airports with...

New Jersey-based Honeywell is helping organizations to boost efficiency through the use of an application with the aim of improving the quality and comfort levels of workspaces. The Honeywell Vector Occupant app, which is available for iOS and Android devices, represents the first step...

  The new offering alerts residents to performance and mechanical problems in their HVAC systems   U.S firm People Power, an internet of things software company which focuses on white-label solutions for home security, energy and care service, has launched its new heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC)...

Network sharing will become a standard tactic to establish dense in-building mobile coverage, with private enterprises increasingly taking charge of network operations, said AT&T at SCWS World in London. But outdoor coverage will remain the preserve of licensed cellular operators, reluctant to share capacity...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed a $15 million 18-month overhaul of Gatwick Airport’s IT systems, which it has compared to performing open-heart surgery while the patient is running. The work has covered the introduction of an ‘internet of things’ (IoT) network, a 30mbps public...