Connected Real Estate

I didn’t make this active in 2007 for a variety of reasons but as I read an article this morning, I decided now was as good a time as any….

With Buildings being the most energy consuming users and data centers being one of the top energy consumers of buildings, this article hit me today as an example of just how many ways there are to solve issues. Putting aside other issues some solutions may bring, this one I believe has a future.

Floating Data Centers? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080114-new-startup-looking-to-set-up-floating-data-centers.html

With Sun and Google exploring such concepts publicly and others acknowledging it as “we are looking into it” this seems someone logical for several reasons.

Lets consider where the world is going and how far connected will be? I don’t look at the world as getting flat, I view the world as being filled up with information until all points on the circumference are connected by information in a global mesh network.  And I believe several companies like Google, Sun and the like are looking to looking to be the filling.

What’s this got to do with connected real estate? If the world is connected then unconnected real estate will be at a disadvantage to provide the services it’s users need. While the industry giants work to gobble up data and make it available somewhere, at some price, at some sonnection, it will be the real estate industry leaders that ensure they users are connected both internally and externally in the connected world.

Welcome to Connected Real Estate. A concept originated out of Cisco and Cisco partners to change the way we design, build and operate buildings. This blog will provide backgroud and current information on making building(s) intelligent for cost savings, productivity and ultimately a better experience for the real estate users.