Who Will Rule the Smart New World?
While Analysts’ predictions of the next big developments in Technology have become as much a January tradition as are hangovers and the task of hoovering pine needles from the carpet, it is often even...
View ArticleSmartening up the City
There are some leaps in technology that seize the mind and imprint themselves indelibly on the memory. There can hardly be anyone over the age of 50 who doesn’t recall their grainy view of the first...
View ArticleSmart Building Conference – The Human Factor
On 7th October I attended the SmartBuilding Conference in central London, in the course of which we were treated to the views of a range of industry-experts including BSRIA’s own Jeremy Towler. Like...
View ArticleRenewable Energy – The Vital Missing Link
For years, renewable energy, especially solar power and wind, has offered the tantalising prospect of almost zero carbon energy; tantalising because, even as costs fall, solar and wind are inherently...
View ArticleSummary and Opportunities – Smart Cities and Smart Energy
Bill Wright, Head of Energy Solutions, ECA, briefly summarised the BSRIA/ECA Conference in Dublin on the 11th June 2015 looking at previous papers and highlighting a few areas for further discussion /...
View ArticleHave you been blackmailed by your Dishwasher? Who Owns the Smart Future?
Having recently updated BSRIA’s key market studies on Building Automation Controls (BACS), Building Energy Management (BEMS) and Smart Evolution – towards the Internet of Everything, I was struck by a...
View ArticleThe return of Athens and Sparta, or the Rise of the Corporate State?
For those of us who have been following the development of smart cities and smart government over the past few years, it has become more and more obvious that it is not only, perhaps not even mainly...
View ArticleSmart Homes – The View from Berlin (And some answers to Life’s Enigmas)
For decades, mankind has agonised over such worrying conundrums as whether the fridge light goes out when the door is closed, or whether I need to drive 20 miles home to check that I really did turn...
View ArticleServitisation, Smart Systems and Connectivity – What’s next for instrumentation?
There are many buzzwords associated with the multitude of new developments in today’s technological world, and the use of terms like Smart Instrumentation, The Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and...
View ArticleShift in Construction Technology for a ‘post-Covid, pre-vaccine’ era
Two thirds of surveyed construction companies rolled out new technology during the lockdown, with 94% of these seeing an improvement to productivity and teamwork. However, what exactly are these...
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