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Customers Find Security in the Cloud During COVID
January 20th, 2022A Real Estate Crisis in the World’s Biggest Potential Smart Building Market
January 19th, 2022
Recording: Open Interfaces for Smart Buildings with ONVIF
Here is the Video Recording from our 1st Free Webinar of the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. Don’t forget you can now Subscribe to ALL our Webinars on YouTube! Open Interfaces for Smart Buildings with ONVIF. Memoori was joined by Leo Levit, ONVIF Steering Committee Chairman for the 1st Webinar in our 2022 Smart Building Series. […]
Robust Market for Smart Buildings M&A in 2021
A record number of acquisitions (286) in the smart buildings space in 2021 accounted for a 31% increase on 218 deals in 2020 and a 10% increase on the previous record of 259 transactions in 2019. There was a robust market for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) among both security product manufacturers and systems integrators last year, […]
Delivery Culture & The Smart Building
Package delivery statistics for 2020/21 make interesting reading. Volume has surged during the pandemic. Managing that incoming flow of deliveries is fast becoming a challenge for building managers and staff seeking to maintain safety, security, hygiene, and a productive work environment. It is at that final step of a complex international logistics network where a range […]
Webinar: Open Interfaces for Smart Buildings with ONVIF
** Recording of this Webinar can now be found HERE ** Please join us on Tuesday 18th January at 1700 CET | 1600 GMT | 1100 EDT | 0800 PDT for our 1st FREE Webinar in the 2022 Smart Buildings Series. Open Interfaces for Smart Buildings with ONVIF. Memoori will be joined by Leo Levit, ONVIF Steering […]
Smart Building Data Silos are Not Sustainable for the Market or the Environment
Picking just the low-hanging fruits of green efficiency is not enough to make real progress in the fight against climate change. The phasing out of incandescent lighting for LED technology was relatively easy considering the lifespan of light bulbs is measured in months. The ongoing transition to electric mobility is a greater challenge with vehicles […]
Hikvision Spinning Off Smart Home & Robotics Businesses
Chinese video surveillance Giant Hikvision (Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.) will spin-off Smart Home business Ezviz (Hangzhou EZVIZ Network Co., Ltd.), details of which were announced in the IPO prospectus they published in December. It states that they aim to raise RMB 3.739 billion (USD 588.3 million) by listing Ezviz on the Science and […]
Blurring the Lines Between Physical Security & Smart Building Technology
The physical security industry has changed extensively in the past 20-years as buildings got smarter and the threat landscape developed. Over those two decades we have seen the dominance of large conglomerates erode, innovative startups grow, and the rise of China as the undoubted world leader in key physical security segments. Then, over the past […]
Over $13 Billion Invested in Smart Building Technology in 2021!
Funding in the Smart Buildings sector is at an all-time high as over $13 billion was invested in 2021. This Research Note highlights our analysis of this unprecedented level of funding for smart building startups and established players. This past year has seen a 55% increase in investment values surpassing the previous annual record of $.8.5 billion in 2018. […]