One of the recent trends in the private markets is democratizing access to a larger number of investors and different investor types. Of course, data is critical to enabling investors to see the returns on their investment, and capturing data from private holdings is entirely different than collecting data from publicly traded holdings. Table of Contents How the Internet of Things is transforming real estate investments Utilizing blockchain Addressing the challenges of data collection Georges Archibald, chief regional officer of Apex Group, says there's a lot of talk about data and data transparency but very little or nothing about data capture for the private markets.
He added that they're currently seeing a transformation in the way data is collected. Specifically, he talked about the infrastructure to collect data and how it's validated and normalized for investors. "The starting point should be infrastructure," he explained.
"We need to capture data earlier. How can we make it immutable and measurable? ..
. We made investments in data capture. Here's a handful of examples.
One, for instance, we invested in a company that's retransforming real estate technology." How the Internet of Things is transforming real estate investments Archibald said the company tied into the overall real estate infrastructure from an accounting perspective at the property and fund levels. For example, the company utilizes the Internet of Things by placing sensors on and in buildings.
These sensor.