Realcomm Weekly Briefing: November 8th, 2024
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CYBER | PROPMODO
The real estate industry is fast becoming a hot target for cybercriminals. As companies in the sector embrace more digital tools, they’re also opening the door to new and sophisticated cyber threats. Real estate and construction accounting software holds a treasure trove of sensitive information - everything from detailed financial records and project budgets to valuable ...
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CYBERSECURITY | PARTNER CONTENT
In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, the emergence of Shadow IT poses significant challenges for organizations, particularly in the commercial real estate sector. Shadow IT occurs when employees utilize technology without formal approval from the IT department, leading to potential security, compliance, and data integrity risks.
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TECH | THE VERGE
Google is adding a Google Home extension to the Gemini app, allowing you to control your smart home while chatting with the AI assistant. The update, which is available to Android users as part of Google Home’s Public Preview program, will let you use natural language prompts, like “Set the dining room for a romantic date night” to adjust lighting, or “Help me clean up the kitchen” to turn on the vacuum.
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PROPTECH | COMMERCIAL OBSERVER
Property managers already have plenty to deal with daily, but tenant experience tasks are adding to their workload. At least, that is what Nick Romito, co-founder and CEO of VTS, and Emma Buckland, global president of property management for CBRE, maintained in a conversation stemming from the release of VTS’s 2024 Global Landlords Report.
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SMART BUILDINGS | FACILITY EXECUTIVE
In traditional building management systems, each system operated in isolation. However, converged or “unified” smart buildings break down these silos, allowing different systems to communicate and share data. This convergence creates a unified platform that enables facility managers to monitor and control various aspects of the building from a centralized “single source of truth.”
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SUSTAINABILITY | FORBES
In today's climate-conscious investment landscape, the commercial real estate sector is more dedicated than ever to adopting sustainable practices. Leading companies have made sustainability and energy efficiency key parts of their identity, which not only drives their purpose but also adds substantial value through advanced energy management and efforts to reduce ...
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SMART CITY | COMPUTER WEEKLY
TIn the field of smart city technology, Peachtree Corners has no little justification to regard itself as a pioneer, being one of the first smart cities in the US powered by real-world connected infrastructure and 5G, and raising its tech bar further, the city has announced a collaboration with Opsys to launch and deploy the latter’s Advanced Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) Technology Opsys Sensors (Altos) Gen 2 LiDAR. Part of the Curiosity Lab ecosystem ...
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INDUSTRY | GLOBE ST.
Industrial real estate is now entering a new era of smart growth, based on optimizing supply chains, advanced technology initiatives and sustainability, according to PWC and the Urban Land Institute's latest report on emerging trends in real estate in 2025. Following the pandemic, companies rushed to construct new logistics facilities, resulting in oversupply. As a result, speculative development fell 43% in 1H 2024 compared to the prior year ...
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SMART CITIES | SMART CITIES WORLD
The Chinese city of Shenzhen has been named smart city of 2024 at the World Smart City Awards gala held at Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona. Shenzhen was recognised for its Smarter City, Better Life initiative focused on transforming the city through digitalisation, advanced urban management, and sustainable development to tackle challenges like dense population, resource ...
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5G | INNOVATION NEWS NETWORK
The unification of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (NTN) has proven to be a compelling need to achieve a converged system architecture able to serve very diverse vertical sectors and related users, notably including PPDR, mobile transportation, societal needs, and industry 4.0. From this standpoint, the traditional approach of integrating heterogeneous network access ...
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