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Will COVID-19 Drive Physical Security Consolidation Through M&A?
May 4th, 2020Webinar: How Data Will Facilitate Your Office Re-Entry Strategy
May 1st, 2020
Everybody Wants to Save the Planet But Who Wants to Clean the Floor?
“Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest,” said lifestyle author, Radhika Mundra, long before the arrival of coronavirus and the subsequent cleaning crusade that swept across the world. There is a growing sense that the world has changed, that things will be different after we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, “a new normal” the […]
Lockdowns Strikes a Big Blow to Bricks-and-Mortar Retail
The UK saw the biggest drop in retail sales since records began 30-years-ago, despite record increases in grocery sales, especially alcohol. In March, US retail sales also slumped to their worst monthly decline since records began in 1982, despite record grocery retail numbers. Both these markets delayed the start of their lockdown and have not […]
Uncertainty is the Only Certainty for Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID
“If we think about real estate as an asset class its value isn’t entirely determined by short term rent rolls,” said Tim Savage, Clinical Assistant Professor of Real Estate at NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate. “In the short run, we will see perceived values fall but this is a natural disaster, not a financial […]
Recording: Essential Do’s and Don’ts of Working with Real Estate Technology & Data
Here are the Audio Stream & Video from our 4th Free Webinar of the 2020 Smart Buildings Series. The Essential Do’s and Don’ts of Working with Real Estate Technology & Data. Lone Rooftop joins Memoori to discuss how companies can avoid being ‘lost in the Smart Building space’ and how they can create a roadmap […]
HVAC Industry Demonstrates the Flexible Power of Digital Systems in a Crisis
If our walls could talk, they would be asking us what the hell is going on. Healthcare buildings have gone into overdrive, hotels are being converted into hospitals, fashion-houses transformed into high-volume PPE factories, auto-manufacturing into ventilator-production, and everyone is at home while an unprecedented amount of our commercial real estate sits empty. We were […]
Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Drive Further ACaaS & VSaaS Growth?
When we published our 2019 World Report on Physical Security at the end of last year, we forecasted an annual growth rate of 15% from 2020 to 2024 for both Access Control as a Service (ACaaS) and Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS). But by the middle of April 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused […]
Making People Count in A Crisis – Memoori Speaks to Density
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, lockdowns keep almost half the world’s population at home, and people gradually accept the inevitable recession we are sliding into, many are looking to technology for answers. Currently, building occupancy data can only show the true extent of lockdowns. However, in the future, the same data sets promise to help […]
Building Occupancy Data Reveals the Extent of the US Lockdown
The US now has the highest number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities anywhere in the world and most States are implementing strict lockdown measures to varying degrees. Fascinatingly, some of the best data we have on who and when people actually started isolating, is building occupancy data from smart buildings. The following graphic, by access […]
