Recent Real Estate Tech Pieces

While this blog has been silent, I have not kept quiet!  Here are a few recent pieces related to real estate technology that have been posted elsewhere.  Enjoy!

• Fifth Grade Math Says Don’t Ignore Money, Use Data-Driven Facilities Maintenance
  • Part of a research project across 180 Silicon Valley tech companies led to this piece summarizing a couple of insights on workforce productivity.  Can smart building technology  prevent lost productivity?
• The coldest winter you’ll ever feel is a summer in the office.
  • We’ve all been too cold or to hot indoors (or wished people wouldn’t complain).  Can real estate technology today solve the decades old thermostat battle?
• How to Become the Facebook, Google or Amazon of Real Estate
  • Facebook, Google and Amazon deliver data-driven experiences that wow.  How can we do the same with real estate technology?
• Large and Unseen Built Environment Opportunity
  • Clip boards with inspection logs are in use in some of today’s most modern buildings, as well as almost all of the older construction.  How do real estate professionals keen to improve their property management and facilities maintenance capabilities leverage the largest opportunity in our industry since Carrier invented air conditioning?

 

 

 

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TeleSense – IoT for the Smart Building

Internet of Things technology in commercial real estate opens up a world of possibilities for improving occupant experience, reducing energy costs and managing building equipment, three areas with the potential to impact returns on real estate assets.  Large players such as Intel and new startups are working on solutions that put the Internet of Things to work for commercial real estate.  This morning I caught up with one of the players in this race to create real value in real estate IoT, Naeem Zafar, Co-Founder & CEO of Adolene, Inc.  Zafar’s growing team is creating a smart building retrofit solution called TeleSense.

Naeem Zafar, Co-Founder & CEO of Adelene, Inc. showcasing one of the TeleSense products at Plug and Play Technology Center April 22, 2015

TeleSense focuses on solving three problems in commercial buildings.  First, TeleSense is able to remotely sense temperature, humidity and air quality thus enabling building managers to make decisions that can improve the occupant experience.  Second, TeleSense monitors energy use & consumption.  By combining the monitored data with weather data, energy demand pricing, occupancy and building energy demand TeleSense is able to reduce overall energy consumption as well as reduce energy consumption when energy costs are higher.  Third, TeleSense uses vibration, temperature and sound or acoustics to predict the failure of building equipment, thus migrating from preventative to predictive maintenance.

“The future of the smart building is huge,” said Zafar.  “It’s all about gathering data easily and creating a real brain to actuate based on the data in real time,” he explained.