BROWSING: Buildings

  U.S. glass-manufacturing company View continues its expansion in the aviation sector, announcing its latest smart windows installation at Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (BZN). BZN joins the growing list of airports across the country with View smart windows, including Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), Dallas Fort-Worth...

Note, this is an excerpt from a new editorial report, The Role of Hyperscalers in 5G and Edge – and how they are Collaborating and Competing with Mobile Operators at the Industrial Edge. The report is free to download, and available here – or...

Digital twin tech used for Building Information Modeling Siemens Smart Infrastructure has recently signed an agreement to acquire digital twin software for buildings from U.S. firm EcoDomus. The move helps Siemens Smart Infrastructure expand its digital building portfolio, including its cloud-based building operations twin software and...

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council in the UK has handed a 10-year contract to Spain-based Cellnex, owner of Finnish private networking specialist Edzcom, to build a private 5G network to support local businesses. The deal covers the design and build of a 5G core...

Private FWA networks The continued investment from the US government – with the Biden infrastructure bill being the most recent example – will continue to provide vital funding to address the digital divide in the US. This will see that fixed-wireless access (FWA) deployments are...

    Canadian smart building specialist Kontrol Technologies secured multi-year service agreements for 18 new buildings. In a release, the firm said that the multi-year service agreements add to Kontrol?s recurring revenue base. The new buildings are located in Ontario, Canada and include the addition of a...

Verizon and Google Cloud have confirmed a partnership on 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC). Verizon said it is the first US operator to offer “5G mobile edge computing” with “all” of the major cloud providers. It is working with Microsoft Azure at the...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining momentum as a key technology for industrial applications and will be one of the big focus topics in 2022. Many companies are curious and open to try out new AI functionalities. Their goal is usually quite simple: greater production...

2021 was a wild one for the 5G market. It was kind of like a roller coaster; exciting and ultimately rewarding, but also filled with a lot of unexpected twists and turns. Particularly for applications like private 5G, the markets became something of a...

    Siemens and Shooter Detection Systems (SDS), a gunshot detection provider, have integrated technologies to improve public safety in the event of an active shooter situation. The integration between the Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System and Siveillance Video system will enable organizations to automatically alert...

    The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) announced that it has crossed the three billion square-foot mark of spaces enrolled in WELL. In the past year, the building area applying WELL offerings has tripled from one billion square feet to more than three billion, IWBI said,...

Siemens has signed a deal to acquire digital twin software from US-based smart-building design company EcoDomus. The transaction fee was not disclosed; a statement implied the agreement is for the EcoDomus software, rather than the company itself. The deal is expected to close in...

  Ameresco, which is a "cleantech" integrator which focuses on energy efficiency and renewable energy, announced that it has acquired Plug Smart, an Ohio-based energy services company that specializes in the development and implementation of budget-neutral capital improvement projects including building controls and building automation...

US private cellular provider Geoverse has partnered with Houston-based enterprise tech provider WCI Technologies to deliver its private LTE and 5G core networking solution to the energy, healthcare, and education sectors. The pair will deliver shared and licensed LTE and 5G infrastructure in the...

  Canadian smart building specialist Kontrol Technologies said it is advancing net zero building infrastructure with the launch of SmartPower, a fully integrated geothermal and VRF (variable refrigerant flow) solution, for the new construction and energy retrofit market. ?Launching the SmartPower brand and solution provides a...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced two new IoT services, AWS IoT TwinMaker and AWS IoT FleetWise, to simplify the process to, respectively, create digital trains of industrial sites, equipment, and production lines, and collect and transfer vehicle data to the cloud. Siemens, Accenture,...

The kaleidoscope has been shaken, and the pieces are in flux; it is a quote from when British politics was supposed to change forever. But it captures very well an even more seismic upheaval, which promises indelible change for global industry – and will...

Vodafone Business and Microsoft have announced a five-year deal on private 5G, edge computing, and IoT for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The arrangement, extending a long-running partnership between the two, will see Vodafone Business sell the Microsoft suite of compute and storage functions,...

  Honeywell announced it is working with the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) to deliver a comprehensive suite of WELL solutions at the enterprise scale through its newly awarded WELL Enterprise Provider designation. As a WELL EP, Honeywell said it will offer its expertise in WELL...

That headline; is it a thunderbolt, really, this private 5G package from Amazon Web Services (AWS)? No, because nothing in it is a surprise. We know AWS is serious about 5G, even if it views it as another application, albeit a functional one, for...

So AWS responded about some of the finer details in its new private 5G offer, announced yesterday. What have we learned? Not much, at least in terms of the identity of the networking partners it is using for the project. But there was some...

Big news in the excitable private 5G universe; Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced its own private 5G service, AWS Private 5G, incorporating small cell radio access network (RAN) units, core and RAN software, and subscriber identity modules (SIM cards), plus sundry edge servers...

Compal Electronics has deployed a private 5G network with a core network from Stockholm-based telecoms software and cybersecurity outfit Enea. The Taiwanese firm, one of the world’s largest original design manufacturers (ODMs), said it will use the 5G setup for manufacturing a range of...

  One Palace Place, a luxury residential building in London, is reportedly the world?s first residential property to be certified with the IMMUNE Building Standard. Located in Westminster, One Palace Place incorporates 35 private apartments with a 24/7 concierge for residents, alongside a 312-seat theatre, a...