INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology
“ESPECIALLY IN LARGE SITES,
SUCH AS INDUSTRIAL ZONES,
OFFICE PARKS, SHOPPING
MALLS, AIRPORTS OR
SEAPORTS, IOT CAN HELP
REDUCE THE COST OF ENERGY,
SPATIAL MANAGEMENT AND
BUILDING MAINTENANCE BY
UP TO 30%.”
At a glance…
drive total growth, representing 24% of the
IoT market for smart cities.
IoT deployment in commercial buildings will
continue to grow at a rapid pace over the next few
years, and is on pace to reach just over 1 billion in
2018. “Incentives into the deployment of IoT in
commercial real estate will fuel its development,”
said Tratz-Ryan. “The UK’s building information
modelling (BIM) mandate, for example, requires
that all public sector construction commencing
in 2016 complies with BIM (level 2).” BIM utilises
data models coming from various information
sources including IoT, which will be used by
commercial real estate in the future.
In smart homes, the consumer IoT applications
that are fuelling growth are smart TVs, smart
set-top boxes, smart bulbs and various home
automation tools such as smart thermostats,
home security systems and kitchen appliances.
“The growing maturity of smart home platforms
through an ecosystem of home appliances,
infotainment and home sensors will mean that
smart home investments overtake those of
commercial buildings in 2018,” said Tratz-Ryan.
Smart homes will represent 21% of total IoT
use in smart cities in 2016, and will record the
highest increase over the next five years. “Device
and wireless standards will be embedded in
more devices. Homes will move from being
interconnected to information- and smartenabled — an integrated services environment
that will provide value to the home and the
individual ambience,” added Tratz-Ryan.
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Amazon to build
massive wind farm to
power services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it will build and
operate a 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm in the US that will
power its current and future cloud service data centres.
The project, called the Amazon Wind Farm US Central, is
expected to generate about 320,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of
wind power per year beginning in May 2017.
Wind-powered energy, the second-largest category of renewable
electricity generation, is expected to grow on average by 2.4%
every year to become the largest power contributor by 2038.
Amazon has launched a number of wind farm projects and other
renewable energy initiatives over the past two years as it moves
toward a goal of 100% renewable energy use.
In January 2015, Amazon announced a renewable project with
the Amazon Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge) in Indiana, US, which is
expected to generate 500,000MWh of wind power annually.
Also this year, Amazon unveiled a pilot of Tesla’s energy storage
batteries that are designed to help bridge the gap between
intermittent production, from sources like wind, and a data
centre’s constant power demand.
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