
Microsoft, big data and smarter buildings
If you checked out the New York Times Snow Fall site (the story of the Avalanche at Tunnel Creek), then Microsoft’s new 88 Acres site will look familiar. If you haven’t seen the Snow Fall site then go check it out, it is a beautiful and sensitive telling of a tragic story. You won’t regret […]

IBM’s Smarter Buildings and Smarter Cities announcements
Smart buildings are a topic I’m interested in and so I devote significant coverage to them on this blog. One of the reasons for that is that, for example, in the US alone, buildings are responsible for about 70% of the energy consumption and for about 40% of the greenhouse gases emitted and by 2025, […]

I want one of those cute energy dashboards IBM and HP are touting for my home
Above is a screenshot of one of the slides from HP’s webinar announcing their new Energy and Sustainability Management solution. What is most interesting about it for me is that, front and center there is a focus on Facilities and Buildings. We have already seen that IBM has identified Smarter Buildings as one of the […]