Schneider Electric Jointly Presents its Merten and Ritto Brands as Team Schneider Electric at Light+Building 2014
Explore Technology for Life – Visit “Team Schneider Electric” at the world’s biggest fair for lighting and building. Light+Building in Frankfurt/Main in Germany is the world’s leading fair in terms of latest innovations for the fields of lighting, electrical engineering, home and building automation. Around 2,300 exhibitors take part at Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre […]
Solutions: Why Metering is Key to Reducing Energy Use in the Home
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. Active metering is key to reducing demand on natural resources and reducing utility bills. By including metering and a method to easily view data – for example, on a smartphone as part of a KNX installation – your customer will be able to review both live and historical water, electricity […]
Going Green: The Smart City – Way of the Future or Outdated Idea?
By Jesús Arias García, KNXin. I was recently in South East Asia and Japan, and I was amazed at the size of the cities there. Singapore is somewhat hard to describe, with its massive buildings everywhere and impossible designs that challenge the force of gravity. You can see something similar in Kuala Lumpur, where the […]
Navigant Research Forecasts Annual Revenue for Home Energy Management Systems Will Reach US$2.8 Billion by 2020
Non-utility providers and smart thermostats will help drive steady growth, report concludes Until 2012, home energy management (HEM) systems, which help residential customers monitor and adjust their energy use, struggled to gain market traction. More recently, however, non-utility stakeholders have moved into this segment, increasing awareness of new tools and helping to drive steady growth. […]
Light+Building 2014 Announces Smart Powered Building Exhibition
Open-air site 11 between the halls 8, 9 and 11 The special ‘Smart Powered Building’ exhibition – ‘your building in the smart grid’ presents technologies for intelligent and sustainable energy management in networked buildings. Market-ready systems for the product areas of electro-technology, home and building automation demonstrate clearly how buildings function as energy generators, storage […]
Siemens Presents Safe and Energy-Efficient Building Solutions at Light+Building 2014
Stand Booth B56 in Hall 11.0 At the Light + Building trade fair in Frankfurt between March 30 and April 4, Siemens will show how innovative products and solutions can be used to plan and operate buildings more safely, more intelligently, and with greater energy efficiency. Siemens is presenting new developments in building and room […]
Energy Management Association Advances Energy Management Services for Building Owners
The newly-created Energy Management Association (EMA) is an innovative association dedicated to advancing the quality of energy management services for the benefit of building owners. EMA responds to a need created by the growing importance of managing and reducing energy consumption in buildings and the emphasis on the total building envelope. EMA membership is open […]
Case Study: Sleepy Hollow Residence, Prestbury, Cheshire, UK
By Paul Murphy, Intecho UK. Intecho was commissioned to devise a home technology solution for Sleepy Hollow; a stunning, architect-designed and environmentally-friendly luxury home in the village of Prestbury, Cheshire. The client – award winning property developer Hillcrest Homes – understood that the inclusion of a comprehensive home intelligence system was an essential element to […]
Going Green: Imitating Nature
By Jesús Arias García, KNXin. Commuting by bicycle is not easy in Cape Town. Here, car and taxi drivers are not happy to share the tarmac with you, but there are also other factors that make the ride a challenge. If it is winter, you have to deal with cold temperatures and rain, so wearing […]
Light+Building 2014 Presents Market-Ready Technologies for Energy-Optimised Buildings and Districts
Major cities such as Berlin are ‘energy guzzlers’ and responsible for around 80 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Hence, it is particularly important that energy consumption be stemmed there. To this end, Berlin is particularly creative and pioneering and has come up with a number of ambitious ideas. One of them is the ‘Energy […]