John Hatcher

Johnson Controls has introduced Metasys 16.0, the latest version of its flagship building automation system with new capabilities designed to help customers reduce downtime risk, strengthen cybersecurity and bring systems online faster across complex environments at a time when building performance is becoming essential to business outcomes.

It feels like most of the smart building investment being planned at the moment is going into buildings that are already smart…and that's worth paying attention to. For a decade the “cool” work was always new build. A wonderful clean sheet of paper to specify what you wanted and hand over something that was clever from day one (or Smart from the Start if you like a rhyme).

The Tennessee Titans have chosen Extreme Networks (Nasdaq: EXTR) to deliver advanced wireless connectivity throughout the new Nissan Stadium. The venue will be the first to deploy Extreme Multi-Beam Wireless, a first of its kind breakthrough innovation engineered to redefine Wi-Fi performance in the world's most demanding environments.

The first edition of FIN Connect brought together a diverse and highly engaged audience, creating a dynamic environment driven by collaboration, openness, and shared ambition.

Verkada has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate the development and deployment of physical AI across the built environment. NVIDIA also joins as a new investor in Verkada, following a strategic investment from Alphabet’s CapitalG at the end of last year.

Tosi's 2026 OT Security Maturity Assessment of the real estate sector identified remote access as the weakest OT security capability; the lowest-scoring of the five capability areas assessed.

HID and Kodaa have announced that Melbourne’s iconic 101 Collins Street tower is emerging as a live example of how mobile credentials are moving from pilot projects to everyday building operations - with thousands of tenants and visitors now accessing one of the city’s most prestigious commercial towers through their mobile wallet, without the need for a physical card.

Group Metropolitan has successfully completed a workplace refurbishment for a leading financial services client, delivering new front-of-house and meeting facilities on Level 18 of a 32-storey landmark high-rise building in Canary Wharf.

AI company Eluviant, formerly IntelexVision, has launched Aurora Flow, a frontier ‘video understanding’ model purpose-built for live, enterprise-scale surveillance. Already deployed in live environments, and capable of running fully air-gapped, across multiple cameras and in near real-time, Aurora Flow extends a platform trusted by some of the largest organisations in the world, including Airbus, DP World, Prosegur and Vodafone, overseeing over 250 deployments on more than 50,000 camera feeds across five continents.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Energy UK have released a new blueprint that they say will help reduce energy costs for thousands of UK businesses.