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South Korean proptech startup Zigbang acquires Samsung SDS’ smart home IoT business

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Zigbang , a South Korean proptech startup that provides real estate transactions service, announced on Thursday that it will acquire Samsung SDS’ home internet of things (IoT) unit to make a foray into the smart home industry. . The company declined to comment on the acquisition deal valuation.

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

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” Infogrid’s platform, powered by AI, gathers and analyzes data from internet of things (IoT) sensors to help property managers and owners optimize the performance of their various buildings — at least in theory. The growing number of competitors coincides with an uptick in VC investments in IoT companies.

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Blockchain in Real Estate: A Comprehensive Overview of Use Cases and Benefits

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The real estate industry is one of the most highly anticipated uses of blockchain. Historically, the real estate industry has been slow to adopt new technologies, but this is not due to a lack of desire to improve. In this article, we will explore the use of blockchain in real estate and how it can benefit the industry.

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Infogrid raises $15.5M from Northzone to retrofit buildings with ‘smart’ IoT

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Infogrid , an IoT startup which can retrofit an existing building to make it “smart”, has raised $15.5 Infogrid also has an “impact-style” mission to enable businesses to reduce the environmental and social cost of their buildings while simultaneously benefitting their bottom line and asset values.

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The network is your office intelligence center

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Around the world, we are enabling seamless and secure innovations in IT connectivity, low-voltage direct current (DC) Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), and the Internet of Things (IoT ). 3 – Know your workplace inside and out with IoT sensors When OT is used in the form of IoT, we can use embedded sensors to revolutionize office spaces.

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Biosafety startup R-Zero acquires CoWorkr to create an ‘OS for the workplace’

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With the acquisition of CoWorkr, R-Zero plans to develop an internet of things-style sensor network to manage both personnel and cleaning in the workplace, says R-Zero founder Grant Morgan. CoWorkr was founded in 2014 and had totaled about $200,000 in seed funding, per Crunchbase. .

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

TechCrunch

The companies presenting today: FaradaIC Sensors: Making mini gas sensors, allowing companies to add things like oxygen sensors to “any IOT device.” RED Atlas: A platform for real estate insights and analytics, focusing first on Puerto Rico. Firecell: Helps enterprises build private 4G/5G networks.

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