Hargray Fiber will provide the critical infrastructure at Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners, a 5G Smart City incubator. Throughout Curiosity Lab, Hargray’s fiber optic-cable will serve as the key infrastructure backbone, with all services using or connected to the lab’s network benefiting from Hargray’s efficient, seamless transfer of data.
New solutions deliver IoT innovations from cloud to edge. Microsoft’s new capabilities simplify the customer journey and deliver highly secured IoT solutions. IoT Central is a fully managed app platform that provides solution builders with built-in security, scale and extensibility needed to develop enterprise-grade IoT solutions.
Gartner research has announced 10 “strategic technology trends that will drive significant disruption and opportunity over the next 5 to 10 years.” And the trends include “hyperautomation”, and “autonomous things,” including drones, appliances, robots, and even ships, sometimes working in collaborative swarms, that exploit AI to perform tasks usually done by humans.
Smart homes are not just smart thermostats and bulbs, but also personal security. A new collaboration between RapidSOS, an emergency technology company, and 911inform, a cloud-based notification and security management platform for buildings and municipalities, will connect smart buildings with 9-1-1 dispatchers during a crisis.
In this interview with TIA’s Harry Smeenk, reviews how TIA has taken 5G and IoT, and network evolution and next-generation networking, and put them into use-case examples for edge data centers and smart buildings.
A wire map test may seem like the most basic test for copper network cabling and therefore one of the least important, but it is actually one of the most critical. And while the pair colors of blue, orange, green and brown might help you pass wire map testing, the test itself really doesn’t care about color at all.
In today’s smart buildings, the network has become more important than ever. A resilient, redundant, intelligent physical layer can help prevent and minimize network downtime’s negative impacts.
A passive optical LAN infrastructure can equip a facility to support the coming building-as-a-service model.
The key to bringing this profound intelligence to the building is optical fiber, because it’s the only medium capable of delivering sufficient bandwidth to support current and anticipated usage. Although developers sometimes try to engineer fiber out—because it’s too expensive, or not necessary—tenants have fundamental expectations that only fiber can deliver.
Today’s smart buildings are beginning to leverage the industrial internet for improved business outcomes, such as better energy efficiency, improved occupant experience and lower operational costs. They may contain thousands of sensors measuring various building operating parameters including temperature, humidity, occupancy, energy usage, keycard readers, parking space occupancy, fire, smoke, flood, security, elevators and air quality.
