Smart Building & Construction News

Samsung SmartThings integrates Ikea Matter devices

Samsung has improved its SmartThings smart home platform’s integrations with furniture retailer Ikea’s smart home products. Samsung has enabled seamless integration of Ikea’s 25 Matter-over-Thread smart home devices, including [...]

Johnson Controls acquires Nantum AI to optimise HVAC

Johnson Controls has acquired Nantum AI, a New York-based company specialising in AI algorithms to help businesses unlock energy savings, enhance system controls and improve operational efficiency. The acquisition [...]

Google AI streamlines construction-site workflows

Ohio-based ConstructConnect has developed a Google Cloud service for identifying and quantifying physical materials required for a construction project to ensure accurate bidding, ordering and budgeting. Called Takeoff Boost, [...]

Dreame unveils 20 smart home products in California

Chinese consumer technology company Dreame launched more than 20 smart home products at last month’s Dreame Next event in San Francisco. The centrepiece of the show was the expansion [...]

BMS market forecast to top 15% CAGR

The global building management system (BMS) market is expected to reach around $21bn in 2026 before surging to $58bn by 2033, according to Persistence Market Research. This trajectory reflects [...]

Police warn Dubai residents of smart home dangers

Police in Dubai are warning citizens to enhance protection of their home surveillance and smart devices. Dubai Police have urged the public to reinforce the security of home surveillance [...]

Zurich shows how data improve construction safety

As part of this week’s Construction Safety Week, insurance company Zurich North America is showing how telematics and other data-driven risk technology can make sure everyone goes home safe [...]

Samsung improves family care on smart home platform

Samsung has updated its SmartThings smart home platform to help users better care for their families and themselves in everyday life. With the latest update, SmartThings has strengthened its [...]

Milesight gateway eases smart building integration

Chinese company Milesight has launched an IoT gateway to aid with smart building integration. As smart buildings scale in complexity, integration remains the industry’s key bottleneck. Fragmented protocols, including [...]

Switch and Berkeley Lab show how to automate buildings

Colorado-based Switch Automation, a provider of smart building software, has added capabilities to Switch OpX, developed with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to evolve smart building technology from identifying issues [...]

AIIR and AirTelligence partner on smart HVAC

US firms AIIR Products and AirTelligence are working together to provide hospitality, residential and senior living facilities with AI-powered HVAC operations, bringing smarter air control to these high-growth markets. [...]

Autonomous cleaner simplifies pool maintenance

Combining autonomous cleaning with built-in post-cycle maintenance, the Beatbot AquaSense X robot simplifies pool care to ensure a seamless transition from spring opening to summer upkeep. “The Beatbot AquaSense [...]