Smart Buildings The Wave of the Present

You can’t have a smart city without smart buildings. Until recently, most people thought of smart buildings as simply having an infrastructure behind the scenes that enabled operations personnel to manage the environmental functions, lock the doors, monitor the security cameras, and respond to fires alarms. Now however, communications technology is being used to directly…

Connectivity in the Blink of an Eye

  On weekday mornings at 4:00am, students in Council Bluffs Iowa, could be seen huddling in the shadows outside of Thomas Jefferson High School – not to get in trouble, but to complete their homework. A community of roughly 60,000 on the banks of the Missouri River, Council Bluffs was a bustling hub for the…