Track: Buildings & Infrastructure

There are several networking wireless technologies that drive and connect smart infrastructure and cities, from transport systems, smart buildings and spaces, energy and security. IoT, including telemetry and control data, adds requirements to existing technologies that were not built with IoT in mind. How will the technologies of the future meet this need? In this session we explore several such networking technologies and explore their applicability to various use cases. Panelists will cover technologies such as LoRaWAN, 5G, and ZigBee.

In areas like Dallas' West End Historic District, the Strip in Las Vegas, living labs and innovation districts are flourishing - unleashing exciting opportunities for cities and leaders. Led by an eclectic mash-up of entrepreneurs and educational institutions, start-ups and schools, mixed-use development and medical innovations, bike-sharing and investment - this represents a radical departure from traditional economic development and helps cities increase global competitiveness by growing the firms, networks and traded sectors that drive broad-based prosperity. Panelists will discuss the economic, physical and networking assets that need to be at play whenever an innovation district emerges in order to facilitate idea generation and accelerate commercialization. Discover how businesses have benefited from innovation districts, helping to drive economic growth across the city. 

Buildings come in all shapes and sizes, but historic, noteworthy, and iconic buildings and infrastructure are something to treasure. Dated buildings and infrastructure can be seen in almost every major city across the US and Europe. Inefficiencies are becoming problematic in lighting, water usage, heating, cooling, airflow, plumbing and more. In this session we will hear from key building and infrastructure stakeholders on best practices for upgrading dated infrastructure with smart, connected solutions. Who are the key stakeholders, where do you start, and what is a viable roadmap for engaging in such transformative projects with so much at stake?  We will learn about key efficiency gains, performance contracts, and budget-friendly long-term financial savings that enable these projects to deliver meaningful results.

ONE HUNDRED RESTROOMS is a full-service solution for retail areas, public transport hubs, petrol stations and QSR. The company, The company, in partnership with the global bathroom brand ROCA, is redefining the standard of public toilets by offering a complete restroom experience. This session will explore the digitalisation journey from that of product to service. Discover how, with the proliferation of sensors in all products (IoT), they can generate data, that with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), offers complete insight into visitor data, operations, water management, customer satisfaction, employee performance and repair & maintenance issues. 

In this session, a panel of experts will explore how new tenant engagement technologies offer benefits for building stakeholders of all types, including building owners, properties owners, asset managers, facility managers and occupants. Discover how IoT applications are growing margins and enabling features such as more efficient building operations, enhanced tenant relationships, and new revenue generation opportunities. 

To understand how air quality works and protect citizens from harm, City Managers in Kuwait and Doha have implemented a real-time IoT monitoring network of 90 ambient electronic noses and air quality sensors placed in areas across the city. These detect harmful pollutants and gases in real-time within the ambient air. In this session you will learn how they use the data collected in the cloud to provide city managers insights for immediate actions to reduce harm on city residents. Discover how they use atmospheric dispersion models, validated by several organizations such as the US EPA, together with wind data to determine the likely source of a measured impact.

Due to European waste regulation, municipalities will soon have the obligation to increase recyclability of organic wastes, provide each household with separated bio-waste collectors and recover energy from bio-waste (either as compost or as bio-gas). This session will explore how Axibio, a company that offers innovative and pragmatic solutions to meet the environmental challenges posed by food waste, developed a solution based on bio-waste collector and logistics from bin to energy production center, with an innovative traceability to incentivize households to receive rewards from their municipality for their “green” behaviour and contribution to the circular economy.

Smart cities are dynamically developing systems in many countries.  One of the core technologies of smart cities is IoT, but it brings new cybersecurity threats due to new technologies and application introduction. An analysis of incidents involving the various components of the Smart City shows that most of them could have been prevented with the right approach to the design of systems and their components and taking into account the requirements of information and cybersecurity. This session will explore these approaches.

Sainsbury, a large UK grocery retailer understood the importance of using analytics to protect refrigerated and frozen food for customers, but they struggled to stitch the relevant data to realize their vision of IoT.  They had building controls in place, and multiple systems for monitoring temperature from food cases. This session explores the Sainsbury's journey migrating from a reactive service model to one that is predictive and prescriptive.  Understand how they manage service events to be scheduled proactively outside of peak trading and how they leverage available equipment data to understand problems and trigger resolution.

In this session, Albert Zaragoza from industrial IoT company Worldsensing will share how he and his team built an end-to-end IoT solution for cities, infrastructures and construction sites to help them better manage everything from traffic flow management to critical infrastructure monitoring.  In addition to improving efficiencies, learn how they are monitoring in 60 US cities, collecting data from 10,000 sensors in 100 critical infrastructures, ensuring 50 mines have safe working conditions and supporting decision making in 6 major construction sites