The University of Birmingham, in partnership with Siemens, is combining digital sensor and analytics technologies, artificial intelligence, decentralized energy generation and storage, renewable energy and concepts that help change users’ behaviour to transform the university’s Edgbaston and Dubai campuses into the world’s smartest global campus, creating a ‘Living Lab’ where research, teaching and learning all
Starting next year, consumers will be able to buy smart home devices — like thermostats, lighting systems and kitchen appliances — that can talk to one another through a new connectivity standard called Matter. Why it matters: Interoperability of home devices has long been a distant dream, but big boys like Amazon, Google and Apple have coalesced
NBN Co will launch a new internet service for connected systems in smart buildings, with individual homes and commercial facilities both appearing to be targets. The company will call the new offering ‘smart connect’, which it describes as “a ‘modular’ wholesale Layer 2 product to be offered to facilities management [and/or] utilities as an ancillary
Science fiction has long imagined what hospitals and healthcare might look like in the future. From robotic doctors and prosthetics to portable diagnostic scanners and regenerative nanobots, books, TV, and films have always provided us plenty of food for thought. But with the advent of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and the Internet of Things, some
The smart lighting and building software specialist, amBX, has released new research on the top tech trends within the smart buildings industry. According to the research, the industry has seen a significant uplift in the importance of occupant wellbeing. Prior to the pandemic, occupant wellbeing was viewed as ideal but not completely necessary, with government
DALLAS, Aug. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Parks Associates released new research ahead of tomorrow's CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference virtual session, showing that 36% of US broadband households now own a smart home device, an increase of 2% over Q4 2020. The session State of Home Security Market features executives from Alarm.com, ADT, Wyze, Brinks Home, Johnson Controls, Rapid Response Monitoring, Smartfrog
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R&M has announced that it has unveiled the industry’s first complete Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) system in the Middle East. This new system provides an effective way to link digital terminal devices and sensors to data networks, paving the way for comprehensive building automation, said the firm. It comprises of connectors and connection modules, installation
While there has been much discussion about the extent to which COVID-19 is changing the workplace, one of the few things that appears to be true is the fact that many industries have been forced to embrace a work-from-home model across much of the organization. Even still, in some departments and for some roles, work
I used to say that the smart home was made up of devices and a hub. Now, it’s probably fair to say that a smart home is made up of connected devices and a digital assistant. Most people want a full-blown digital assistant like Alexa, Siri, or Google, not just a cluster of automation software
