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On the Radar

Frost & Sullivan’s continuous performance evaluation tool The Frost Radar™ has identified EMCOR UK as a growth and innovation leader within the facilities management sector.  Recognising how the facility services provider is using technology to fill unmet needs, Frost & Sullivan highlighted EMCOR’s early adoption of deep machine learning to deliver smart facilities, the empowering …

Appointments

Cloudfm Makes Senior ESG Appointment

Cloudfm has appointed Katrina Christopoulos as head of ESG.Christopoulos will drive environmental and social policies within the company, working with customers and suppliers to accelerate change. Her previous roles include leading sustainability at Bloomberg in their London Headquarters, dubbed one of the most sustainable offices in the world, and having global responsibility as ISS’s head…

Australia

Governor of Queensland Visits Cambridge Liquid Sensor Business

AI and machine learning technology business InferSens has welcomed Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young AC PSM, Governor of Queensland to its new headquarters at the St John’s Innovation Centre in Cambridge, UK. InferSens currently applies its expertise in tinyML – an emerging branch of machine learning that shrinks deep learning networks to fit…

Automation & AI

Energy Performance Certificates: Going Back to the UK’s Future?

Saurabh Saxena, founder of Buy To Let and AI property evaluation platform houzen, explains how artificial intelligence is delivering better value from EPCs in the UK. 2022 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the introduction of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) in the United Kingdom. Originally a requirement of European Union Directive 2002/91/EC and enshrined in UK…

Automation & AI

Understanding AI

11.08.2021, 14:44 Understanding AI With artificial intelligence transforming the operation of business across industries, managers of all levels are flocking to understand how the technology can be deployed in their organisation. Business leaders and any understand how  decisions they make are vital in the survival of their company. From those starting out to experienced leaders, both…

Automation & AI

Facilitating the Transition to the Smart Grid

08.07.2021, 13:39 Facilitating the Transition to the Smart Grid A collaboration between Siemens and Oracle will help energy suppliers manage market wide “Half Hourly Settlement” (HHS) data processing requirements under settlement reforms being introduced by UK energy regulator, Ofgem. The automated solution leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to query and process readings from smart meters…

Automation & AI

A Leader in IoT Predictive Maintenance

28.06.2021, 08:51 A Leader in IoT Predictive Maintenance Gartner has named Cloudfm a global leader in IoT enabled predictive maintenance in a new report on the benefits of the technology and its role in digital transformation across different industries.   Gartner highlights Cloudfm’s role in disrupting and innovating in this market space. Cloudfm has led…

Appointments

Vijay Sankaran Appointed to New Role at Johnson Controls

13.05.2021, 16:27 Vijay Sankaran Appointed to New Role at Johnson Controls Johnson Controls has appointed former TD Ameritrade and Ford Motor Company executive Vijay Sankaran to the newly created role of vice president and chief technology officer with responsibility for its OpenBlue digital platform. . Sankaran has held leadership roles in technology transformation across a…

Automation & AI

Machine Learning Enhanced Energy Software

08.03.2021, 15:39 Machine Learning Enhanced Energy Software Novel Automated Respond Command (ARC) energy efficiency software from Utility Team utilises AI and machine learning to optimise the cooling loads of commercial and industrial chiller plant. Over the past six months, the company has been testing ARC across various sites in the UK and has seen the…

Automation & AI

A Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator

24.02.2021, 18:25 A Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator Johnson Controls has been named a Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator for the sixth straight year.   The tenth edition of the annual report from Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, identifies companies at the…

Automation & AI

IoT Partner Ecosystem of the Year

14.01.2021, 20:52 IoT Partner Ecosystem of the Year Johnson Controls’ OpenBlue digital platform and implementation of a global network of OpenBlue Innovation Centres have been recognised with an “IoT Partner Ecosystem of the Year” Breakthrough award. The IoT Breakthrough Awards programme showcases excellence in IoT technologies, with 2021 representing the third consecutive year when the…

Automation & AI

Covid-19 and The Future of Physical Security

14.01.2021, 14:16 Covid-19 and The Future of Physical Security Johan Paulsson, Axis Communications CTO, highlights the smart applications that are re-shaping service delivery within the physical security industry in the post-Covid-19 environment. When the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, few would have predicted the enormous impact it would have across the world. In the physical security…

Automation & AI

MRI Enhances Real Estate Software Portfolio

27.10.2020, 22:20 MRI Enhances Real Estate Software Portfolio MRI Software has announced multiple enhancements to its real estate software portfolio at the first virtual edition of its North American users conference, MRI ‘Ascend Anywhere’. With more than 1,700 registrants, the conference brought together professionals from across the real estate industry to attend virtual keynotes, presentations…

Automation & AI

Making Sense of the Numbers

11.09.2020, 13:28 Making Sense of the Numbers Director of Data and Data Science at Haven Power, Bjoern Reinke, explains why AI and machine learning are essential for interpreting the huge volumes of data generated by commercial smart meters. For some time, companies have been using automated meter reading (AMR) and smart meters to manage energy…

Automation & AI

Taking the Fuss out of Energy Management

13.07.2020, 12:04 Taking the Fuss out of Energy Management The UK’s first energy strategy bot promises to help businesses cut costs and reduce their carbon footprint.   AMBER, which has been developed by Utilitech pioneer Amber Energy, uses advanced machine learning principles to benchmark a user’s current energy performance against criteria, Lean, Clean and Green, to…

Automation & AI

Saving Housing Groups Unnecessary Boiler Callouts

15.06.2020, 15:11 Saving Housing Groups Unnecessary Boiler Callouts Vericon Systems has added a new remote access feature to its connected intelligent boiler control system for Housing Associations and Social Housing providers, BCM:Connect.   BCM:Connect monitors a boiler’s condition in real time, using machine learning to predict system failures. The solution can also monitor boilers remotely,…

Automation & AI

On the Journey Towards Carbon Neutral

15.06.2020, 14:21 On the Journey Towards Carbon Neutral Katie Burrows, energy services solutions manager for Haven Power, considers what the UK government’s commitment to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 really means for businesses.   A recent report from Energy Systems Catapult casts doubt on the UK’s goal of becoming carbon neutral within a 30-year time frame, suggesting the public…

Automation & AI

Sodexo Boosts Data Capabilities

05.03.2020, 16:11 Sodexo Boosts Data Capabilities Sodexo’s strategic venture capital vehicle has invested in machine learning and AI startup isahit which connects companies with performers of Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) in developing countries. Isahit, which specialises in annotating images, sound, video and text used for constructing databases, has worked with the French multinational’s Data Lab to enhance…

Automation & AI

Delivering Value with Robotics

13.02.2020, 13:24 Delivering Value with Robotics Scaled Robotics co-founder and CEO Stuart Maggs will be explaining how robotics and AI can deliver value within construction at BIM Show Live (26-27 February, Boiler Shop, Newcastle Upon Tyne). The architect and designer who specialises in digital fabrication and construction robotics will discuss what the future of construction…

Automation & AI

Workspace Automation for Unparalleled Productivity

11.02.2020, 19:44 Workspace Automation for Unparalleled Productivity A new Room Readiness feature for Utelogy Corporation’s U-Automate tool allows IT teams to remotely validate the readiness of all connected devices including sensors in collaborative workspaces.   Utelogy’s management portal, U-Manage, released last year, already allows operations teams to drill down to see device metrics, documents, and…

Automation & AI

Benchmarking Energy Consumption with AI

28.01.2020, 09:33 Benchmarking Energy Consumption with AI New software from arbnco uses machine learning to assist UK commercial building operators with energy benchmarking, tracking and consumption forecasting. Designed to transform building data into actionable insights, software solution arbn insight, can be used to analyse the performance of a single building, or deployed across an entire…

Automation & AI

Enabling Connected Boiler Control

22.11.2019, 13:10 Enabling Connected Boiler Control Vericon Systems has launched BCM:Connect, an intelligent device that monitors a boiler’s health and status in real time to facilitate preventative maintenance in residential housing.   Targeted at Housing Associations and organisations with direct responsibility for tenant welfare, the device records and sends intelligent performance data to the cloud…

Automation & AI

When Energy Crisis Meets Climate Crisis

25.10.2019, 12:06 When Energy Crisis Meets Climate Crisis Veolia is urging immediate action in the wake of massive power disruption caused by the recent, temporary loss of just 5 per cent of the UK’s electricity generating capacity and an expected doubling of demand by 2050. The company’s latest report, Keeping the lights on, released today, shows…

Automation & AI

Clarifying the Purposes of Food Waste Management

24.07.2019, 14:28 Clarifying the Purposes of Food Waste Management Atheon Analytics CEO, Guy Cuthbert, says grocers and the food services sector need to adopt new ways of thinking to meet ambitious global targets for reducing food waste. Food waste has become a globally hot topic in recent years and a major commitment for most UK…

Automation & AI

Consumer Packaging and Food Waste

03.07.2019, 21:25 Consumer Packaging and Food Waste Atheon Analytics CEO, Guy Cuthbert, explains how new retail food portions and packaging materials can help reduce consumer waste. According to a recent study from WRAP, approximately 60 per cent of household food waste arises from products that are not used in time. The study finds consumers need clearer information…

Automation & AI

Improving “AI” alfred

The Western world’s largest materials distribution operation, thyssenkrupp Materials Services, has reached a milestone in integrating alfred, it’s AI solution powered by Microsoft’s Azure platform, in its global supply chain. alfred (which is named in honour of company founder, Alfred Krupp) now supports colleagues by dynamically managing the company’s global logistics network of 271 warehouse…

Automation & AI

Improving “AI” alfred

The Western world’s largest materials distribution operation, thyssenkrupp Materials Services, has reached a milestone in integrating alfred, it’s AI solution powered by Microsoft’s Azure platform, in its global supply chain. alfred (which is named in honour of company founder, Alfred Krupp) now supports colleagues by dynamically managing the company’s global logistics network of 271 warehouse…

Automation & AI

Using Predictive Analytics in the Power Industry

GE is applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to data analytics from power transmission and distribution networks to set new targets for operational efficiency. The company has announced a suite of three new grid analytics solutions will be connected via the GE Common Digital Energy Data Fabric platform which provides access to unified…

Automation & AI

Using Predictive Analytics in the Power Industry

GE is applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to data analytics from power transmission and distribution networks to set new targets for operational efficiency. The company has announced a suite of three new grid analytics solutions will be connected via the GE Common Digital Energy Data Fabric platform which provides access to unified…

Automation & AI

Automating Emergency Light Testing

01.05.2019, 14:13 Automating Emergency Light Testing Building management systems specialist Vericon Systems has launched EmeRed, an intelligent device which is designed to automate testing of emergency lighting to comply with health and safety legislation.   The intelligent device which is easily retrofitted, monitors the performance of every light in a building and automatically transmits the…

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