Smart lights adjust to individual lighting preferences, turn off if everyone has left the room, balance artificial light and daylight to give consistent illumination, co-ordinate lighting across defined areas, manage energy use and collect data to help plan the efficient use of space.

On Thursday 14th March, Sirus celebrated 25 years of partnership with Siemens at a Sirus/Siemens staff event in Shelbourne Park, Dublin.

• Cloud-based Smart Pay as You Go software will help bring heat into line with other utilities for households
• Provides significant lifetime cost saving for the heat provider as it takes hardware out of a property and moves into the cloud
• Digitalisation helps create a foundation to move towards smart cities

The Board of Directors of Digital Catapult is delighted to announce that Juergen Maier CBE is appointed as its new Chair.  He will succeed Andy Green from May.

Siemens Building Technologies: people respond to voice warnings; evacuations are speedier when timely information is communicated

• Siemens and +ADD Strategy lead ground-breaking innovation programme to bring water sector together
• Collaborative thinking to identify priority challenges
• Co-investment for innovation-led projects to develop effective solutions and new answers
• Water quality is the first topic selected for the innovation challenge