by Jamie Cameron, Director of Digital Solutions, Johnson Controls UK&I

If you ask people what they consider a smart building to be, you will get a different answer every time, and the great thing is every answer is correct. Smart buildings are different things to different people

By Marc Pegulu, vice president of IoT product marketing and strategy for Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group

How to make the smart choice by Steve Detmer, Residential Product Manager at Lutron Electronics

The future of the construction industry: Technology should be at the heart 

By Stacey Lucas, Commercial and Marketing Director at Sontay

Better outcomes for students from smart buildings by Jonathan Pokorny, Business Development Manager, Siemens

Siemens Smart Infrastructure: well-designed hospitals help patients heal faster.

Interview Andreas Matthé, CEO of the Business Unit Low Voltage and Products, Division Energy Management, and head of the Siemens booth at Light+Building 2018.

Smart and automated by Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells and Alexandra Whittington, Fast Future

Although building-level automation has been around for more than 40 years, there is renewed interest in automation for residential and commercial sites, especially around smart buildings and a smart grid.

To many property owners and investors, the value of smart building technology remains unclear. The reality is that such technology, while requiring some capital investment, helps reduce facility operating costs over time. By combining building automation systems with a smart building management system, a commercial property owner can monitor hundreds of properties at once and fine-tune building performance to a degree not possible via human capabilities alone.