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 ...

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 ...

The Strategic Response Fund is one of several measures that Prime Minister Mark Carney launched on Sept. 5 in response to ...

Smart spaces, also known as "connected places," are physical locations equipped with networked sensors that provide owners, occupants, and administrators with more and better information about the ...

Everything’s getting “smart.” Higher education institutions are no exception as technology innovators push them into the future by creating smart buildings as part of smart campuses and smart cities.

Smart buildings, powered by an ever-expanding network of IoT devices, face a staggering 820,000 hacking attempts every day, a ...

Four decades after its debut, the office tower that developers called “the world’s first intelligent building" might not seem very smart by today’s standards, but it pioneered a profound ...

All of the above are challenges for cities as they work to transform themselves into smart urban spaces. But with tight budgets and economies teetering on recession, governments need to find ways to ...

Intelligent building systems promise efficiency and sustainability. Yet an analysis of nine years of sustainability reports from 22 publicly traded U.S. real estate investment trusts reveals a ...

Representing a fusion of innovation and convenience, a smart home can be defined as an environment in which one or more devices are connected and can be controlled remotely, either through a ...

The Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST) Center is one of the main research platforms available for the Architectural Engineering students and faculty members. The BEST Center provides ...