HKT deploys 5G to create smart construction site
Hong Kong telco HKT is working with Kai Tak Sports Park and Hip Hing Engineering to achieve 5G smart construction. The have built the city’s first construction site with [...]
Talkpool acquires Home Solutions for €2.6m
Swiss IoT firm Talkpool has acquired Nordic Proptech Investment Services and its smart building subsidiary Home Solutions for €2.6m. Home Solutions is a smart building company that measures electricity, [...]
TÜV SÜD uses digital twin to design Singapore HQ
European test and certification house TÜV SÜD used digital-twin smart building technology to design its new Singapore offices where around 700 employees will work from this year onwards. The [...]
Kontakt nine-in-one sensor quantifies buildings in real time
California-based indoor IoT location services firm Kontakt.io has launched Portal Beam, a nine-in-one cloud-enabled sensor platform quantifying rooms and delivering building insights in real time. Portal Beam uses nine [...]
Modelling transforming construction work, says Hilti
Hilti says its building information modelling (BIM) services are transforming projects as the construction industry embraces digitalisation. At a time when construction companies look to digitise processes, Liechtenstein-based Hilti [...]
Span lands $20m and announces Alexa integration
California start-up Span has landed an extra $20m funding and announced integration of its smart home electrical panel with Amazon Alexa. Span’s electrical panel lets users intelligently monitor and [...]
D-Link Wifi 6 wireless mesh covers whole home
Taiwanese firm D-Link has introduced a whole-building Wifi 6 wireless mesh system for device-dense smart homes. The Covr systems come in multi-pack options that combine Wifi 6 with mesh [...]
Innosent radar sensor detects distances in buildings
German radar technology company Innosent has introduced a motion detector for contactless control applications in building technology, automation and safety equipment. It is the firm’s first to provide distance [...]
MClimate and Wattsense deliver end-to-end LoRaWan
European companies MClimate and Wattsense have joined forces to integrate IoT end-to-end services for energy management in smart buildings using LoRaWan technology. Bulgaria-based MClimate and French firm Wattsense are [...]
Sense projects monitor electricity to make homes safer
Massachusetts-based home energy company Sense has introduced two projects that make homes safer and more reliable. The first Sense Labs project is the Power Quality project that tracks variations [...]
Space research energises construction wearable
Space research project Sprint is helping construction technology company Mafic develop energy harvesting for its Safeguard IoT wearable built into a hard hat. Safeguard is a wearable device that [...]
Yeelight partners Silicon Labs on Google smart light bulb
Chinese smart lighting provider Yeelight worked with Texas electronics company Silicon Labs to develop a smart LED light bulb to support seamless setup in the Google Home app. The [...]
