Experts agree on the potential of IoT. Nevertheless, companies need to consider how they position themselves in the market in order to develop successful business models. We show opportunities to be considered, businesses who’ve made the breakthrough and ways to figure out your ideal market position.
When it comes to data protection and privacy, the Germans are somewhat special. Arguably nowhere else in the world do people love to debate so passionately about technological innovations. Whether it is Google Streetview, digital voice assistants or even smoke […]
What is tenant electricity? While it was previously possible for property owners in Germany to generate and use their own energy on or in the building or to feed it into the public electricity grid, they could not pass the electricity on to their tenants. A legislative amendment makes this now possible.
IoT in logistics is one of the most promising fields for experimentation with new uses of the IoT. There is huge scope in logistics for eliminating inefficiencies such as wasted journeys, unused storage or haulage space, and the loss, theft, spoiling or impairment of goods in transit and in storage.
Driven by innovative technologies in the field of sensors, computing speed and battery life, it is conceivable that our clothing will increasingly change over the next few years. The so-called “Smart clothes” are clothes characterized by traditional protective and representative functions in combination with digital and technical features.
Saving energy is an increasingly important issue these days. While it seems obvious that the simplest way to save energy is just to use less, in practical terms it can be a lot more difficult. Smart home systems and devices help save energy by allowing the user to monitor and control energy usage in new ways.
The modernization of utility networks is considered to be the largest infrastructure project of all times. In Germany alone 40 million private households and a huge variety of smart metering devices need to get integrated in an intelligent power grid. […]
Smart products such as fitness trainers, connected cars or intelligent houses are changing the expectations of customers – and are ploughing over entire industries and branches of industry. In the light of this development, companies should therefore rethink their product […]
In the age of the Internet of Energy (IoE) the generation of electricity is no longer exclusively in the hand of the big old industry. New markets emerge. Consumers become Prosumers. Electricity communities form.
Building automation today is a bit like sailing a 400-foot luxury yacht into the port of Monaco: everyone would like to do it, and almost everyone would if it were not so complicated and expensive. In an earlier article, we […]
Considering how automated many artificial environments are, it is remarkable that most buildings today have so many manual controls.
