The Energy Department estimates that property owners spend more than $6 billion per year to illuminate outdoor spaces like parking lots and garages. While that is a huge number, it’s also one that you can dramatically reduce by using energy-…
By Shashwat Nath, Principal Digital Product Manager at GE Current, a Daintree company
As retailers and their customers adjust to the post-COVID world, there is a heightened awareness around cleanliness and preventing transmission of germs…
Making a true difference as a facility manager involves adding value, optimizing the day to day of your facility for productivity and efficiency, and bringing new ideas to the table for cost savings, time management and more. It also involves…
Visual: “Back to Work” solutions powered by smart lighting and Deep Location
Joint Current and Pointr solution ensures companies can reopen buildings safely Contact tracing, disinfectant lighting, safe wayfinding, occupancy and congestion…LED lighting can bring a broad range of benefits to many types of environments. This reference guide discusses the basics of LED and lighting controls technology and how it can be applied to your retail space.
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Rocky Lauer’s first introduction to LED technology didn’t leave the best impression. While attending a national conference for facility managers nearly a decade ago, he sat in on a session about LEDs. The instructor warned…
Internet of Things (IoT) platforms supported by LED lighting arrangements can bring incredible benefits to commercial buildings, from compelling energy savings to amazing possibilities enabled by connected infrastructure. Welcome to a world where…
Installing smart office technology can help usher businesses into a new era of operations and productivity, but it’s not without challenges. Chief among these concerns is IoT security. IoT security challenges impact everyone at the business, and…
In a hugely competitive retail landscape, the fight is on to provide shoppers with a uniquely personal experience that will encourage them to return to brick-and-mortar stores time and time again. Retailers are searching for ways to convey…
For financial leaders looking to reduce operating costs and meet sustainability objectives, transforming a branch or office space into a smart building is a driving force to achieving those goals. But more than that,…
Real estate and facility management leaders know that flipping the switch to LED lighting is no longer simply about optimizing energy use. When combined with sensors, controls and networks, buildings become smart—gaining even greater…
This post was originally published on the iOFFICE blog on Nov. 29, 2017. You can read the original post here.
Technology is to facilities management as the iPhone was to personal communications, as Bill Gates was to computers, as Dippin’…
This post was originally published on the iOFFICE blog on Oct. 23, 2017. You can read the original post here.
Assets represent a large percentage of an organization’s budget, so it’s frustrating and costly when one malfunctions or fails…
Water utility costs are surging nationwide, but IoT solutions using cloud-based control technology help curb these costs dramatically. Weathermatic offers a solution based on a simple purpose: to help ensure you save water in the landscape where…
Charles R. Zimmerman recently retired as the Vice President of Design and Construction for the International Division of Walmart Stores, Inc., and is now owner of Global VE, a consulting firm focused on worldwide value engineering and capital…