Sensors

As the Indian government’s Smart Cities Mission gains momentum, global technology companies are starting to take notice.

5 smart city products for planners

May 2 2018, 9:43 am Emma Gordon

We round up some of the products available to help make our cities better places to live, work and get around.

Disney unveils smart home tech Wall++

April 26 2018, 4:41 pm Alice Cruickshank

And you thought current smart home technology was far fetched…

York to use sensors to manage traffic

April 24 2018, 12:24 pm

The city’s Smarter Travel Evolution Programme will use road data to improve traffic flow.

What’s the Big Data idea?

March 28 2018, 10:42 am Emma Gordon

Counting your steps with a tracker; checking into your favourite restaurant on Facebook; and swiping your security pass to get into work. What do all these things have in common?

My proptech life | Jeremy Luck, project director at Crown Workplace

March 15 2018, 3:00 pm

The first in a series of peer-to-peer reviews by property professionals sharing the favourite tech tools they use on a daily basis and those dream products they would like to see invented in the future.

Case study

Inside Europe’s smartest offices

March 13 2018, 3:06 pm Natalie Holmes

PlaceTech looks at three of Europe’s most impressive Smart Buildings, to find out how new technologies are impacting energy efficiency and enhancing employee experience.

Launch

Wondrwall to start shipping its ‘brains for homes’ in April

March 12 2018, 3:20 pm Emma Gordon

With around £11m of orders already secured, Manchester-based Wondrwall expects to start shipping its smart home technology — the culmination of four years’ development — at the start of next month.

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Guide

How sensors are driving change in the built estate

March 5 2018, 11:59 am Emma Gordon

Sensors allow us to monitor, control and understand our surroundings in ways we’d hardly thought possible just a few years ago.

Comment

Tech will enable commercial property, not disrupt it

February 10 2018, 1:11 pm Tom Renn Comments (3)

Traditionally sceptical of technology, the property industry remains one of the last sectors to be disrupted. Innovation is only adopted when it adds real value.