Technology
Silicon Wafer Innovation Hailed as Breakthrough
Gridtential’s Silicon Joule technology offers new options for microgrids, electric vehicles and other applications.
New Platform’s Goal: Improved Pricing, Transparency
Tradition Energy unveils an online portal that reduces the steps required to source price quotes from multiple suppliers.
NavVis Presents New Indoor Mobile Mapping System
The company’s new M6 model features 6D simultaneous localization and mapping technologies, a mobile-LiDAR system, four laser scanners and six cameras.
HqO Presents New Mobile App
The company introduced its platform at Jamestown’s Innovation and Design building in Boston. HqO’s mobile app offers tenants access to utilities, including visitor registration and parking.
CRE’s New Safety Strategies: Drones, Robots and Apps
High-tech options for protecting people who work in commercial buildings are multiplying. Robots, drone detectors, heat-sensing cameras, automated check-in kiosks and crowdsourcing apps that rely on occupants’ reporting skills are already part of the new generation of security systems in office and retail buildings.
Australia Approves Solar Park for Bitcoin Mining
Located some 130 miles south of Perth, in Western Australia’s Shire of Collies, the 20-megawatt facility should come online within the next six months.
Cortet Unveils Next Generation Lighting Control Solution
The Cortet E100 Gateway measures only two by two inches, but it can wirelessly control up to 120 devices, including LED fixture controllers, wall switches and sensors.
How RTEM Is Rewriting the Energy Management Playbook
Yardi Energy’s Annette Durnack sheds light on trends in real-time energy management systems and selecting an RTEM.
Micro-Hedging Energy Bets
A new Texas initiative powered by blockchain could lead to more cost-effective management of energy price risks.
Extech Instruments Presents New Laser Distance Meters Series
The Nashua, N.H.-based company launched three new devices—DT40M, DT60M and DT100M—capable of computing area and volume, measuring angles and staking out distances between objects.