Category: IoT

What is a Smart building?

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A Smart Building is defined as ‘a structure embedded or retrofitted with internet-connected devices and appliances’.   Smart buildings have a lot of reported benefits including increased efficiency, reduced utility costs and simplifying daily life for tenants. Smart buildings achieve these benefits by using sensors and actuators to collect and manage data according to the business’ services and functions. The effectiveness of smart buildings centre on the use of interconnected technologies to make buildings more intelligent and responsive which as a result can improve their performance and optimise how space is used.

How Facility Management Can Keep Up in the Digital Age

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Facility management, like every other business field, is undergoing digital transformation. Learn about facility management in the digital age. This guide addresses the basics of facility management, top technology developments affecting the field from building automation systems to big data; and the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation in facility management.
 

7 Ways Smart Buildings are Changing Commercial Real Estate

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Smart building technology has a profound effect on many industries, such as manufacturing, as well as the commercial real estate market. Today’s businesses are looking for more than an empty building that they house their equipment in. The smart building features are as much of a selling point as the location. Here are seven other ways that smart buildings are changing commercial real estate: Expanding options, fully Integrated systems, Adapting to tenants’ technology requirements, improving environmental friendliness, and better automation due to versatile IoT sensors.

The IoT Community announces IoT Day Slam 2020 virtual conference, in celebration of World IoT Day, April 9th, 2020

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The IoT Community® announced the exclusive agenda for the IoT Day Slam conference, hosted online on April 9th, 2020, World IoT Day. The event marks the IoT Community’s eleventh international IoT Slam branded conference, and provides the global IoT ecosystem with a unique opportunity to learn from expert innovative practitioners, about the “best of the best” use-cases and best practices for enterprises designing, developing, and shaping the future of the IoT landscape.

Energy Source Tapped for Powering Smart Sensor Networks

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The electricity that powers appliances and lights homes also generates small magnetic fields that exist everywhere. A research team, headed by Penn State scientists, built a device that delivers as high as 400% higher power output when compared to other advanced technology when working with low-level magnetic fields similar to those seen in buildings and homes. The technology holds major implications for designing smart buildings, which will need self-driven wireless sensor networks to perform things like remote control of systems and tracking energy and operational patterns, the researchers said.

How Smart Building Technology Is Shaping Federal Agencies

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A smart building typically looks like a regular building, with bricks and glass windows, but at the heart of a smart building are sensors that drive building automation. Internet of Things sensors and devices monitor HVAC and lighting, motion, humidity, electrical controls, access control and video security. The data from those sensors then feeds a variety of controllers that can help IT and operations staff automate building management.

Under 40% Deploying IoT Solutions Today

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In a IoT Commercial Adoption Survey, the Eclipse Foundation found that the internet of things (IoT) adoption is growing, though “slower than the hype would indicate.” The nonprofit that facilities open source software collaboration and innovation conducted the survey in 2019. Just under 40% of the organizations are currently deploying IoT solutions, and another 22% said they plan to begin deploying IoT within the next 2 years.

The Ethernet of Things

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Sure, you’ve heard of the #InternetOfThings. But, what about the #Ethernet of Things? Learn how more power from #PoE is helping to connect the world. Wired Ethernet connections may seem like ancient technology sitting in the rear-view mirror beside fax machines, dialup modems and dot matrix printers. Yet Ethernet, with its low latency, dedicated bandwidth and power delivery capabilities, is actually one of the key building blocks for the infrastructure that will enable the wireless IoT to continue to expand.