Short answer? Probably not as much as you think. The good news? The Internet of Things can help. It just requires an open mind about how technology is friend, not foe. By: Vanni de Sequera What you don’t know won’t hurt you, the saying goes. Actually, that’s not even remotely true. Deep down, we know …
When collaboratively implemented with a trusted partner, the prospective gains of IoT technology outweigh its risks. By: Vanni de Sequera Propmodo is a California-based media brand that focuses on technology and innovation in commercial real estate and the built environment. Its mission is to discern ever-evolving technologies that will guide property managers (and their tenants) into …
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Introducing the technology that may just save the ailing food industry in the Philippines. By: Vanni de Sequera Spare a thought for shell-shocked restaurateurs (and others in the food industry) during this Covid-19 pandemic. Often vague and ever-changing lockdown guidelines leave them either swelling with hope or completely deflated. One week, proprietors can operate at …
Internet-of-Things Bound to Make Dining Out Safer Read More »
The market for the Internet of Things is growing more rapidly than you think. Here’s how to keep up. By: Vanni de Sequera For most of us, the “things” in the Internet of Things are vaguely understood systems of sensors and software that somehow interconnect appliances in smart homes over a WiFi network from an …
In the Philippines, there is tech that allows safer workplace practices during this era of COVID. By: Vanni de Sequera As the general population ages, fewer and fewer persons remember a time when asbestos lined the roofs of homes (even offices) and second-hand tobacco smoke was deemed acceptable inside airplanes and shopping malls. Good riddance, …
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Indoor-air quality completes the circle of trust between patients and doctors during these pandemic times. By: Vanni de Sequera A patient enters a hospital with the tacit understanding that it is, in every respect, a place fully purposed for healing. Doctors with well over a decade’s worth of medical training, nurses highly attuned to the …
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By Vanni de Sequera Before 2018, the idea of national energy conservation in the Philippines was mostly a vague coalition of individual household ideals, the ambition of some progressive companies, and a series of futile policy statements from government departments. Republic Act 11285—short-titled, “The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act”—changed everything once it passed into law. With …
RA 11825: A Good Law and Corporate Goodwill Happily Intersect Read More »
Government rightfully appeals to businesses to partner with them in the effort to cautiously reopen the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s the cutting-edge Internet of Things (IoT) way for employers to fulfill their obligation. By Vanni de Sequera Just days before a surge in Covid-19 cases in the Philippines saw daily national PCR positive test …
We spend up to 90% of our lives indoors, both at work and at home, yet the misconception remains that indoor air is healthier than outdoors. In truth, the air inside can be five times more polluted than it is outside.
This cognitive dissonance may be best understood because indoor air seems so much more sterile—devoid of the nuisances of the occasional dust storm, heat of the midday sun, dark plume from a jeepney’s exhaust, and constant urban noise pollution that accompany our experience during even a short walk along a city sidewalk.
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