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    THESE WALLS CAN TALK

    Aug 23, 2018 3 minutes

    Honeywell and Monash University recently signed a collaboration agreement to deliver one of the world’s first ‘cognitive office buildings’, bringing together next-generation technology and research to significantly change the way buildings are managed. They’re using big data to “intelligently and automatically alter the internal environment” to develop cognitive buildings and redefine the term ‘smart buildings’.

    A cognitive building is a smart building that collects data from various sensors – and then takes that data to learn from it and find meaning from it, to improve the functionality and management of the building.

    Honeywell will deploy its Honeywell Vector Occupant app

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