Looks like smart building and smart city concept is a continuation of the things that were happening in his previous work at Cisco. Great potential and a good vision. Only seeing this moving at any speed in small patches, but a real difference when you have it.
A good guide, but not an answer to all. Software Engineers are humans, and everyone of them are different. So, if you want to work with Software Engineers well, get to know them first.
I remember a friend who was telling me that only reason this wall street thing works is because there are enough not-well-informed people who will continue to feed money into the market for other well informed people to profit from. It is about people being in a market that they know very little about in a hope of making some riches.