• Report: How the self-storage industry is leveraging IoT to drive revenue growth
    by Joe Dyton on October 10, 2023 at 3:50 pm

    Market research and consulting firm Parks Associates recently released, in partnership with Vantiva, its latest white paper, “Next-Generation Self-Storage: Leveraging Technology to Grow Revenue,” which examined the changing self-storage landscape and technology’s role in driving revenue growth. The research looked at where self-storage property owners were leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) to bring new

  • Report: Investor, founder confidence in proptech grows — slightly
    by Joe Dyton on October 10, 2023 at 3:45 pm

    Property technology investors and founders may have shied away from the sector as lending decreased in recent years, but confidence in the industry has slowly started to rebound, according to a recent MetaProp report. The MetaProp Mid-Year 2023 Global PropTech Confidence Index revealed that investor confidence increased to 6.1 (out of 10) from 5.4 at

  • Analysis: Proptech firms show how they can enhance CRE
    by Joe Dyton on October 10, 2023 at 3:41 pm

    When real estate professionals are busy trying to attract new tenants or retain current ones, critical tasks like property valuations and building maintenance and operations can get lost in the shuffle. Fortunately, property technology (proptech) has emerged to help pick up some of the slack, Jeffrey Steele recently wrote for Forbes. “The advances in applying

  • KKR closes $560M in industrial CRE sales
    by Joe Dyton on October 10, 2023 at 3:39 pm

    KKR closes $560M industrial CRE sale Global investment firm KKR recently announced that it sold more than 5 million square-feet of industrial warehouse and distribution properties for a total aggregate value of more than $560 million. The sale confirms commercial real estate analysts’ belief that industrial is currently the safest asset class among industry sectors,

  • SOLiD, ASOCS team up to release joint O-RAN solution for private 5G networks
    by Joe Dyton on October 3, 2023 at 4:55 pm

    SOLiD, a cellular in-building mobile coverage provider, and ASOCS, which provides private 5G network software, recently announced a partnership to offer a complete O-RAN-compliant solution for private 5G and Industrial IoT (IIoT) networks. The joint solution allows rapid deployment of scalable private 5G campus networks with intelligent real-time positioning using the Citizens Broadband Radio Service

  • Enlighted unveils new AI capabilities for building IoT
    by Joe Dyton on October 3, 2023 at 4:37 pm

    Property technology (proptech) Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider Enlighted recently announced that artificial intelligence (AI) use in its Location Intelligence solution has been expanded, as well as new additions to the Enlighted partner ecosystem. Introducing AI models to Enlighted’s Real Time Location Services (RTLS) system improved the accuracy of finding assets and personnel more than 98

  • Verizon’s 5G network part of first live, transatlantic holographic meeting
    by Joe Dyton on October 3, 2023 at 4:15 pm

    Wireless carrier Verizon recently took part in the first-ever real-time transatlantic holographic collaborative meeting at Mobile World Congress Las Vegas. The 5G Future Forum (5GFF) and MATSUKO, which created the world’s first real-time software-only solution for holographic presence, led the meeting, which connected multiple people as holograms.   The holograms were connected from New York using

  • Report: CBRS infrastructure investments could reach $1.5B by 2026
    by Joe Dyton on October 3, 2023 at 3:58 pm

    The Citizens Broadband Radio Service’s (CBRS) 2020 emergence in the U.S. helped enhance the private 5G market throughout a number of industries as private networks became more affordable. Today, CBRS – a three-tiered framework that helps coordinate 150 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz CBRS band — continues to be a success, and it

  • Irby Utilities partners with co-ops to bridge divide
    by Martha DeGrasse on September 26, 2023 at 4:40 pm

    Irby Utilities got its start in the 1920s, distributing supplies to some of the nation’s first electric utilities. Later Irby supported rural cooperatives after FDR’s Rural Electrification Act set in motion the investments that would close the power gap between U.S. cities and farms. Today, Irby is part of the world’s largest privately held electric

  • Betacom, UScellular deploy first private/public hybrid 5G networks
    by Joe Dyton on September 26, 2023 at 4:35 pm

    Private wireless network provider Betacom announced a partnership with wireless carrier UScellular to deliver the industry’s first private/public hybrid 5G networks. The companies believe the partnership will advance Industry 4.0 initiatives across the U.S. The service provides security and control over business data, both on-premises and while roaming among company facilities. The private/public hybrid 5G network service

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