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Microsoft, big data and smarter buildings

Microsoft, big data and smarter buildings

By Tom Raftery on April 16, 2013

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, microsoft, microsoft smart building solution, microsoft smart building tool, muilding management systems, redmond, smart buildings, Smart Cities, smart corporate campus, smarter buildings, smarter cities

Smarter cities – cities of almost any size can now go digital, with all the efficiency gains that brings

Smarter cities – cities of almost any size can now go digital, with all the efficiency gains that brings

By Tom Raftery on September 13, 2011

I attended an IBM Smarter Cities analyst event last week, and it was, not surprisingly, very interesting. What is the whole rationale behind making cities smarter? Well, there are a number of factors. For one, the world’s population has doubled in the last 40 years (from 3.5 billion to almost 7 billion). And with the […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ibm, ibm Intelligent Operations Center, Intelligent Operations Center, smarter cities

IBM’s Smarter Buildings and Smarter Cities announcements

IBM’s Smarter Buildings and Smarter Cities announcements

By Tom Raftery on June 16, 2011

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, […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ibm, ibm Intelligent Operations Center, Intelligent Operations Center, smart buildings, smarter buildings, smarter cities

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/26/2010

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/26/2010

By Tom Raftery on March 26, 2010

Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: GE Announces Major European Offshore Wind Expansion with a Planned €340 Million Investment for Manufacturing, Engineering and Service Facilities in Four Countries GE today announced plans to invest approximately €340 million to develop or expand its wind turbine manufacturing, engineering and service facilities in four European countries—the United […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged 1e, Carbon footprint, coal, Corporate Responsibility Magazine, duke energy, energy star, environmental protection agency, ford, freedom of information, GreenNumbers, ibm, Los Angeles, offshore wind, smarter cities, water, Wind power

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