| | May 20198CIOReview IN MY OPINIONBy Abhijit Sengupta, Director, Central Asia, HERE Technologiesn 2019 is we will see a huge boost in real-world smart building innovation, as the concept moves from marketing hype to commercial reality.Much of this innovation, as outlined in more detail below, is driven by rich, real-time location data and new indoor mapping technologies. Intelligent, connected, thinking buildings will soon become an integral part of the smart city of the near future. Not only are they far more efficient, automated and precise, they are more habitable for residents and boost productivity for companies and workers.Five smart building trends The commercial real estate imperative drives much short-term smart building innovation. Plus, there are longer-term environmental concerns and benefits that are the more vital catalyst for change.The United Nations anticipates that the world's population will top 10 billion by 2060, with over two-thirds of the world's population living in urban areas by 2050. Smarter buildings that produce energy instead of merely consuming it, are part of a wider, more fluid smart city ecosystem and point the way to our eco-friendly urban future.We can identify five broader smart building trends to look out for in 2019, each powered by location intelligence: IoT-connected "thinking buildings", 5G-powered safer buildings, location-aware smart parking and offices, smarter sustainable developments and a wider move towards open, more collaborative and transparent data platforms.The value of location data in the IoT eraOver the next three to five years, we expect to see the widespread transformation of many existing urban structures into what we might refer to as "thinking buildings". 5 SMART BUILDING TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2019ISmart building innovations - better parking, automated waste management and dynamic emergency response systems, in particular ­ will transform the Indian city over the next decade
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