Smart Buildings

The world of real estate is rapidly evolving, and with advancements in technology, buildings are becoming smarter and more efficient than ever before. Smart buildings leverage advanced technology for a number of benefits, which are the biggest drivers of smart building tech adoption. Let’s discuss these drivers in more detail. Increased Demand for Energy-Efficiency …

The Challenges in Choosing the right Ontology The smart building industry has witnessed the emergence of numerous ontologies, such as Haystack Project (Haystack), Digital Buildings Ontology (DBO), Digital Twins Definition Language (DTDL), RealEstateCore (REC), and BRICK Schema (BRICK). Created by various organizations and researchers, these ontologies provide comprehensive frameworks for representing and exchanging building-related data, to address…

In the smart buildings industry, we typically blame tight budgets, changing labor markets, low occupancy rates, and lack of education for consumer resistance to automation. These are important factors to be sure. However, as a seasoned marketer, I know most folks don’t make their purchasing decisions solely on affordability or…

Understanding materials and how they transport themselves from one state to another at the nano- and micro-scale can help researchers tailor their physical, chemical, thermal and mechanical properties for specific engineering applications. …

An office building, of around 100 people, can consume enough energy to foot a bill of 350,000 RMB (50,000 Euro) per year. How do we bring those bills down while still optimizing for comfort? Is it possible to create a more sustainable building? How can we gather data to design…

Hello again! Today we’re diving into fault detection and diagnosis through the lens of an awesome open source package, open-fdd. Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) is a critical part of building operations and maintenance. There may not be many opportunities in the field for general approaches to this nuanced issue…

In this edition, we will be reading about how IoT revolutionizes businesses such as CRE and benefits owners and tenants. With more countries emphasizing smart cities, technologies such as IoT are gaining more prominence. — Welcome back with another edition of The IoT Pulse, your go-to source for everything related to Cybersecurity, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Real Estate News. The global pandemic of 2019 has made businesses think differently about the employee, staff, and customer experience. It made them look for creative ways…

Take a look around you and observe what devices have become “smart” within the past couple decades. A “smart object” is something that can “sense, log, and interpret what is occurring within themselves and the world, act on their own, communicate with each other, and exchange information with people” (Kortuem…

Living in a smart city is an exciting prospect, one where technology is used to make our lives more convenient, efficient, and sustainable. But what exactly is a smart city, and how is technology transforming the way we live and work? A smart city is an urban area that uses…