Fifth Wall just announced its $212M innovative new property technology fund
[{"id": "dh1wtko", "text": "I'm a software developer that's interested in real estate but I'm having a hard time thinking of useful things software can do in this sector. Any have any ideas?", "replies": [{"id": "dh1x86f", "text": "There are tons of thing!!!!\n\nMaintenance analytics is a big thing along with integrating your infrastructure components (gas/water/sewer/electric/AC/heat) into a mesh network of sensors, creating a pseudo internet of things in your buildings detailing you consumption, occupancy, trends in traffic throughout the building, and pre-catastophy analytics, such as finding leaks, etc..\n\nSend me a PM, would love to share with you the new tech out there and what problems need to be solved.  Im a finance and econ guy that worries more about budgets and ROI but lately, new tech is increasing the bottom line and driving values.  Currently installing 1.2 MWs of CoGens in my properties.", "replies": [{"id": "dhpc9mc", "text": "Yeah utilities are huge and a prime target would be situations where one parcel owner recieves reimbursements from other parcel owners. This can get very complicated and lead to disputes or worse litigation. If there was a consumption based measurement of utilities used by parcel owners, this could mitigate disputes. There are firms that do this already but many properties do not have this in place.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "dh2ptt1", "text": "Things like pereview, vts (view the space).\n\nThings that help with site selection. \n\nThings that help find investors like different crowd funding platforms.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]