Today, tech is being used to manage buildings. Courtesy of KIGProperty Markets Group uses a proprietary smartphone app at "L," its state-of-the-art luxury apartment building in Chicago's Logan Square, to open doors instead of keys or fobs. KIG principal Susan Tjarksen (who is marketing the building to bidders on behalf of Property Markets Group) said the app actually does more than that. Using an app to manage a building would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, but Tjarksen believes tech has advanced so far and become so reliable in such a short span that its users now take it for granted. She forsees a time in the near future where advancements like driverless cars will revolutionize commercial real estate even further.

Source: Forbes April 12, 2017 13:52 UTC