The document discusses several megatrends impacting real estate including rising energy consumption, pressure to improve productivity, and changing work styles. It outlines how Cisco's smart and connected communities approach can address these trends by improving sustainability, workplace productivity, safety and security, and economic efficiencies for real estate properties through the use of networking and Internet of Things technologies. Converging building management systems, security, lighting, and other systems onto one network provides opportunities to centrally monitor, control and manage building functions.