Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

So far, Americans have been lucky. The nation’s buildings, places where citizens spend about 90 percent of their lives, have met their basic needs for shelter. But now, buildings have to be smarter.

In May 2020, the smart city concept appeared to have been dead and buried when Sidewalk Labs ended its collaboration with the City of Toronto to create Quayside, a data-infused, sustainability-focused ...

Buoyed by a surge of high-tech innovations and several years of robust U.S. construction markets, AEC teams are working on ideas for “smart buildings.” Since the mid-1980s, a new generation of ...

A new energy ecosystem is emerging that connects smart, green buildings with a smart, green grid to optimize energy flows. Since commercial and industrial buildings represent around 40 percent of U.S.

Every one of us has a magical tool in our pockets or purses. We should be able to enter an unknown building, navigate to our desired location, know where the elevators are, and gain access seamlessly.

Office buildings contribute as much as half of the energy used in the United States, and they can do more to curb their impact on the environment. Hiding within the halls of homes and office buildings ...

As part of the Segurinfo Argentina 2019 conference in Buenos Aires, ESET's Global Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe gave a talk on smart buildings, in which he explained the security risks associated ...

Should a building be self-aware? Roberto de Bonis, a senior researcher at Telecom Italia that presented at the 4 th International SMART Conference in Belgium, discussed smart technology and its ...

It is well known that violent physical attacks against tall buildings are on the rise,[1] but an even more concerning threat will take the form of cyberattacks, with the potential to be ...