Tag: real estate
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Better Indoor Environments with Real-Time IoT Data
Homes and other properties contain an increasing number of IoT sensors and smart devices that provide data relating to their environment. Cozify wanted to demonstrate how that data could be used to create comfortable indoor conditions for people, and save money while doing so. Kimmo Ruotoistenmäki Cozify is a Finnish startup that develops hardware and…
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Hot PropTech in the Cool Nordics
RecoTech, the official side event of Slush, brought together PropTech enthusiasts from all over the world. Each presenter shed their own light on why we should keep our entrepreneurial eyes on PropTech. Here are my notes on a few of the awesome presentations and talks at the event on December 4, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland.…
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Living as a Service – An Interview with Teemu Suila of Kojamo
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Opportunities in PropTech – An Interview with Duke Long
Duke Long is a world-renowned PropTech promoter, commercial real estate broker and owner of the Duke Long Agency. In this interview, he talks about why Proptech is a huge opportunity and how to seize it. If you’re considering creating new solutions for the real estate and construction industry, you should definitely listen to Duke. Likewise, if you’re…
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SkenarioLabs Uses AI for Property Benchmarking
AI continues to be a hot topic across industries. The PropTech startup SkenarioLabs has a data analytics solution that utilizes AI. The results have been successful from the perspective of property owners: reliable technical surveys that contribute to making smart investment decisions. While automatic valuation is not a recent invention for property owners and investors,…
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The Winning Teams at the AEC Hackathon Helsinki
The AEC Hackathon on September 7-9, 2018, was a part of Housing Fair Finland’s City Living event. The winning hack teams presented three quite different solutions to the hackathon challenges. The hackathon took place in a school building constructed in 1878 that the current owner, Kojamo, is developing into a hotel. The three hackathon challenges…
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How BIM Can Serve Building Owners
Building Information Models typically end their active life after the construction phase. An experimental project was initiated to find out whether and how they can serve owners throughout the life cycle of a building. Gradia, the Jyväskylä Educational Consortium, provides education to students of all ages in central Finland. It has around 25,000 students, a…
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Connecting IoT Data to BIM
Internet of Things sensors and IoT-capable devices provide a huge amount of data from buildings. To make this data useful and usable for research, Aalto University is developing and testing a service that links IoT with building information models, BIMs. “The idea to start an experiment on linking IoT with BIM at the Otaniemi campus…
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Human Eye Resolution Virtual Reality for AEC
Virtual reality opens new perspectives for communication and customer involvement in construction. Sweco, Varjo, and Teatime Research are together exploring the possibilities of VR using state-of-the-art technology. “I think that the use of VR in construction is still at a visionary stage and useful practical applications are rare,” says Niina Jaatinen, Service Manager at Sweco.…
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WDBE 2018 – Full Program Published
On September 11-12, 2018, the World Summit on Digital Built Environment WDBE 2018 will showcase a unique portfolio of ideas, projects, and businesses from the digital forefront of design, construction, and real estate. The event will take place in Helsinki, Finland. https://youtu.be/1DniiMbJmIg The program will consist of almost 100 presentations and four workshops that were…