Johnson Controls, Willow partner on smart buildings

Johnson Controls and Willow have announced a global collaboration to integrate their respective smart building and digital twin solutions to help customers digitise buildings and facilities at scale and make them healthier, safer and more sustainable.

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Siemens closes Brightly acquisition, elevating software offering for building operations

Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI) has completed the acquisition of Brightly Software, a U.S.-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of asset and maintenance management solutions. The acquisition elevates SI to a position in the software market for buildings and built infrastructure. It adds Brightly’s well-established cloud-based capabilities across key sectors – education, public infrastructure, healthcare, and manufacturing –

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Buildings can be key to a sustainable future – but first, business models need to change

The World Economic Forum was right to say in a post this month that buildings could be the key to building a sustainable society post-pandemic.

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ZF Switches & Sensors ZF presents wireless energy harvesting KNX light switch module

At Light+Building 2018 in Frankfurt from 18th to 23rd March, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Business Unit Electronic Systems, presents the world’s first wireless energy harvesting KNX light switch module that is configurable via ETS (from ETS5).

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