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The unforeseen advent of Covid-19 has jolted the priorities of the best-crafted masterplans and roadmaps leading to 2020, from government masterplans to social policies and infrastructural roadmaps such as those for smart cities and smart buildings.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Pre-Covid-19 smart buildings were touted for their green-ness by implementing energy-saving, eco-friendly measures, and digital efficiency by ruthlessly optimizing operations with digital data from connected sensors.
Today, these dimensions of building smartness, though undoubtedly important, have taken a remote backseat to more urgent and pronounced pandemic-induced needs, such as a deep-cleaned environment, low-touch or no-touch user experiences, increased automated and autonomous services, and wellness-focused, socially-distanced workplaces.
These new priorities open up vast, accelerated opportunities for robotics and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies, and will reshape the trajectory of smart building roadmaps and standards in the coming years.
This is the start of our Smart Buildings Report Series, where we hope to provide a broad perspective of the post-pandemic smart building landscape for adopters and providers in the robotics and IoT space. To date, we have released the reports below:
Let's begin with Report 1: The New Normal of Hyper-Cleanliness.
CONTRIBUTORS
Gary Yates
I cover and write all things robotics @ Insights. Like everyone else, what I do today may be performed by a robot writer one day. So, I get ahead by keeping abreast of what is happening in the robotics world. You should too!
Gerald Y.
Contributing writer @ RList. Gerald keeps his eyes on the development of smart cities and how the sharing of open data can eventually deliver a ROI on the cities' investment in data collection and management infrastructure.
