Data and machine learning are breakthroughs for the energy efficiency of buildings. Startup BuildingIQ is using these tools to grow its building energy optimization business, and it's just brought on some major energy industry backers.…
Read MoreResearch
GE, Intel Back Smart Building Startup Scientific Conservation
Smart building startup Scientific Conservation has brought on GE as an investor. While the company announced a Series B round of $15.65 million earlier this year, this morning Scientific Conservation said it has boosted that round to $19 million from GE and Triangle Peak Partners.…
Read More10 Digital Energy Innovators from Green:Net 2011
For this year's Green:Net, a team of GigaOM editors and industry insiders chose 10 innovators in the digital energy space to present their "big ideas" for using information technology to fight climate change. Here are some of the insights they shared.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: Connected Cities Are Sustainable Cities
At Green:Net next week, we'll be exploring how adding IT technologies to anything from the power grid, to data centers, to buildings, to lighting can lead to energy efficiency and a more sustainable consumption of increasingly-constrained resources.…
Read MoreSerious Materials Launches Energy Software
Green building materials startup Serious Materials is best known for selling its eco-drywall and energy efficient windows. But quietly over the past several months the company has jumped into the energy management software market with a software-as-a-service product that enables building owners to reduce energy consumption.…
Read MoreBuildingIQ’s Smarter Buildings, Now With Demand Response
Mike Zimmerman, the CEO of building automation software startup BuildingIQ, says his company has for the first time met a utility's demand to turn down power to manage peak load, automatically with a building control system in Perth, Australia.…
Read More3 Next-Gen Applications for Smart Grid 2.0
Now that large, established players — Silver Spring Networks and Cisco (CSCO) — are building out the smart grid network, the next…
Read MoreBlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac Available Today
It’s been a long, long time coming, but according to RIM (s rimm), the BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac will be available…
Read More