Category: Technology

Tips for Tips

Business Energy Management

Editor’s note: The following piece and accompanying graphics are re-published with permission from Home Energy Magazine. Behavioral recommendations, or tips, are an integral piece of many energy efficiency programs, ranging from marketing materials (e.g., brochures) to in-home audits, to Home and Business Energy Reports (such as the report shown below). Though information is known to […]

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Li-Fi

Emerging Technologies

Wi-Fi revolutionized the way we connect to the internet, but it’s not without flaws. Researchers have been busy looking for new kinds of technologies that could offer more reliable alternatives. One is called Li-Fi (Light Fidelity). Back in 2011, a group of scientists led by Professor Harald Haas from Edinburgh University in Scotland introduced the […]

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360 Video

Iris Views Real Estate

Architecture is one of the great powers to enhance our lives, but it boasts some serious communication issues. Designers, even though they mean well, may present homeowners with tough to understand drawings, or renderings that don’t really reflect how to navigate a finished room. As a consequence, homeowners end up paying for space without knowing […]

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Sin City Streetlights

Hurricane Sandy is a terrifying memory, but out of its darkness, plenty of luminous people came out with innovative ideas meant for a better world. One such company is the New York-based clean tech start-up EnGoPLANET. They signed a partnership with the city of Las Vegas and installed their solar-kinetic streetlights solution at Boulder Plaza […]

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Atlanta’s Geezer Squad

Senior Living Tech Assistance

In one Atlanta senior care facility, residents keep IT support in-house, thanks to the Geezer Squad. Tech hiccups can fell even the most tech savvy amongst us. For senior citizens, reboots and restarts are difficult to navigate. While sometimes a wayward grandchild can be corralled into providing IT support, not everyone has access to a […]

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Modular Data Centers

All the details

Modular data centers are one of the latest innovations in the IT world. In many cases, they are capable of increasing business productivity while reducing costs. We went looking for answers to some common questions about these data centers and what implications they have for the future. So, what is a modular data center? A […]

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Insights on Innovation

Jim Young and Kevin Yardi

In 1992, the founder and CEO of Realcomm made a prediction. Jim Young wrote an article entitled “The Information Age and the Potential Effects on the Commercial Real Estate Market” forecasting a world in which reporters armed with “personal communicator” devices would relay information to editors, who pass it through an electronic distribution system to […]

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Smart Homes, Dumb Security

Safeguarding the Internet of Things

On October 21, 2016, many of the world’s most popular websites were incapacitated by a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Users trying to blast off a tweet or listen to their favorite track on Spotify suddenly found themselves stranded on 404-error pages or stalled by perpetual “loading” messages on their browser. The […]

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Meet Pixel

Google's First Phone

Google has finally launched its own smartphone, the Pixel, and aimed it directly at Apple. The search giant is keen on showing what a premium Android can do when the hardware is tailored to the software by those who actually make it. Following the Nexus line, Pixel is now 100 percent Google, and even though […]

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Data Powered Cities

Information and Infrastructure

The future of urban planning lies in not just accessing information, but deploying it as a resource to enhance urban planning and improve the lives of residents.

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Nubia Z11

Smartphone Review

Not many heard of the Chinese smartphone brand Nubia, but after the company’s latest flagship release at IFA Berlin, many will, even more so now that Nubia announced that Z11 will be available internationally starting with September. The 5.5-inch device attracts attention firstly through its bezel-less design which gives an 81 percent screen-to-body ratio, which […]

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No More Falls

Senior Safety Technology

For many senior citizens, the choice to move into assisted living begins the moment staying at home becomes dangerous. Tripping over carpet or a tumbling down a flight of stairs can no longer be dispatched with an ice pack or a trip to urgent care. For adults 65 and older, these incidents often result in […]

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Solar Surfaces

Energy Produced in Place

A revolutionary new technology can put solar cells on almost any surface, transforming traditional solar energy installations and turning buildings into power generators.

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Sharing Not Caring

Social Media Abuse

After a rash of inappropriate and unsettling photos and videos posted by nurses and staff, the senior living industry is stepping in to regulate social media abuses and protect the privacy of residents.