Fyma secures $1.8m seed investment led by Change Ventures

Infogrid, the two-year-old artificial intelligence technology company that automates facilities management and claims to make any building smart, has raised $15.5m Series A funding from a combination of UK and US investors.

Andrew Cooke, strategic director, Bruntwood Works, and Ed Vickery, director of Studiotech, join Paul Unger to talk about smart buildings and the rise of tech in offices.

Disruptive Technologies' tiny sensors coupled with Infogrid’s AI platform saved money and food during the UK’s first Covid-19 lockdown when nobody else could be there.

For years many of us took indoor environmental quality for granted but now the airborne spreading of the coronavirus has brought the spotlight down on the air around us. Here are some of the companies to check out in this field.

What does the future hold for retail and leisure? These are clearly challenging times, but seen against those sectors that were cruising before Covid but are now flailing for new ideas, such as offices, retailers have a headstart in confronting uncomfortable truths, and daring those who hold the purse strings to rip it up and start again.

We asked a panel of experts to name their favourite innovations for footfall and audience insight to help retail property players. Here's their pick.

Norway-based Disruptive Technologies, creator of the world’s smallest wireless sensors, is partnering with a new product from Google’s urban innovation company, Sidewalk Labs.

Ultraviolet robots, vapour systems and waste analytics are among the tech solutions helping to keep premises safe and healthy.

The global operating system for safe, flexible and human-centric workspaces, has agreed an integration deal with the Japanese tech giant to combine the Hitachi platform into spaceOS’ workspace management app.