With sustainability at the forefront of public discussion, many organizations have set stringent decarbonization goals with plans to reach net zero within the coming years. At the same time, these ...

Reinforcement learning (RL) represents a paradigm shift in smart building energy management by enabling systems to dynamically adapt to changing environmental conditions and occupant behaviours.

Much of what we have talked about has focused on autonomous smart buildings as the strategic chess pieces that form the foundation of our smart cities. We need to look at the complete city chessboard ...

A new, cross-province initiative is evolving the living lab environment by testing and developing smart technologies and building solutions before they go to market. The $6.5-million project – dubbed ...

Commercial buildings are under growing pressure to digitize operations and reduce carbon emissions, pushing the HVACR industry beyond incremental efficiency improvements. At AHR Expo 2026, the world's ...

Download this article in PDF format. Buildings—with a carbon footprint even greater than that of the transportation sector—account for a significant portion of the total energy consumption in the ...

Covid-19 is forcing real estate developers and facility managers to rethink many aspects of the buildings they build and oversee — and investing in smart building systems and software is one of them.

Government agencies can turn to an array of sensors and data analytics platforms to enhance energy efficiency and optimize building operations. A smart building typically looks like a regular building ...

Simply placing the word "smart" before any kind of architectural or technological term, or any term for that matter, seems to convert it into something new and futuristic. Some examples, such as the ...

Smart-building controllers can reduce risk of smart devices being used as entry points to the LAN, but they should be chosen and managed carefully. Power, they say, corrupts, and absolute power ...