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Addressing the FM Labor Shortage
The talent and labor shortage in facility management has been an issue for years. This was acknowledged in an FMJ article from the IFMA Foundation in 2019, “Is FM Prepared for a Technical Labor Shortage?” It is still a top concern today, as shown in the National Fire Protection Association’s 2025 Industry Trends Survey of electrical, manufacturing, construction, engineering, architect/design, facility maintenance, fire service and insurance/risk management professionals.
Roundtable: Demand is the New Supply
The Alliance to Save Energy released at the end of 2023 "Demand is the New Supply - Affordable Grid Stability through Demand-Side Solutions," which identified the critical importance of active energy efficiency solutions in the residential built environment, if the U.S. is to achieve a reliable, affordable, and equitable energy transition. The paper was introduced as part of a panel discussion at COP 28, moderated by Alliance President, Paula Glover.
Democratizing Smart City solutions with Azure IoT Central
One of the most dynamic landscapes embracing Internet of Things (IoT) is the modern city. As urbanization grows, city leaders are under increasing pressure to make cities safer, accessible, sustainable, and prosperous. Underlying all these important goals is the bedrock that makes a city run: infrastructure.
Building retail solutions with Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central is an IoT app platform for solution builders that simplifies the challenges of building and deploying scalable and affordable enterprise grade IoT applications. Across the retail industry, the use of connected devices to deliver business performance continues to grow in popularity. New solutions are accelerating business model transformation by connecting manufacturers, supply chains, warehouses, and store shelves to owners, operators, and customers in exciting new ways.
Azure IoT Central: Democratizing IoT for all solution builders
For the last five years, our industry has buzzed with the promises of IoT. IoT has evolved from being a next-horizon term, to a common vernacular employed across industry conversations. In fact, earlier this year we surveyed 3,000 enterprise decision makers across the world and learned that 85% have developed at least one IoT project.
Digital distribution centers-The future is here
The pace of change has never been as fast as it is now. Globally, the population is becoming more urban and income levels are rising. By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the global population will live in cities or urban areas—that’s six billion people. Consumer behavior has also materially changed over the last decade, and omnichannel retail, personalization, and demand for same day deliveries are growing.
Azure IoT drives next-wave innovation in infrastructure and energy
Many of the conveniences we enjoy today are dependent on the infrastructure cities and municipalities provide, such as water mains, streetlights, and roads. This infrastructure and its associated technology support our transportation systems, schools, hospitals, and more. A vital type of infrastructure is the electrical grid - every basic need we have is dependent on access to energy, but the way energy is managed is changing rapidly.
View chooses Microsoft Azure IoT to accelerate development of smart building applications
Innovation in smart buildings has been increasing in recent years, catalyzed by the democratization of cloud, AI, and IoT. Our recent Azure Digital Twins announcement highlights Microsoft’s commitment to IoT innovation. Organizations benefit from virtually representing their physical environments to deliver on various IoT scenarios, including smart buildings.
Announcing Azure Digital Twins: Create digital replicas of spaces and infrastructure using cloud, AI and IoT
For years now, our partners and customers have been using the Azure Internet of Things (IoT) platform to create breakthrough applications for a wide variety of industries. Along this journey, we’ve learned that most digital transformation efforts benefit from context about the physical world. As a result, organizations are showing a growing appetite for solutions that provide a deeper understanding of the sophisticated interactions between people, places, and things.
Improving quality control and rescue efforts with IoT
As Internet of Things (IoT) technology gets faster, sleeker, more cost-effective, and more reliable, it’s becoming an increasingly vital component of daily life. At the same time, IoT technology is also becoming more transparent, which means many people may not be aware of its growing impact. One of the most significant examples of this is how IoT-enabled devices are improving transportation safety.
New IoT and edge capabilities and programs to power partner and customer innovation; simplify journey to business value
Each year at our Inspire conference, we love hearing from our partners about the cloud solutions they are building, the business momentum they are seeing and the opportunities for growth. We heard early on that IoT’s complexity was impeding innovation and impacting business results.
Smart buildings, built on Azure IoT
The term “smart building” was coined in the 1980s after networking and connectivity changed what could be done in the built environment.
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