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Your Own Environment Bubble That Follows You Around A Smart Building
July 4th, 2017Physical Security Business Needs Open Systems & Structural Changes to Deliver Full Potential of Integration
July 3rd, 2017
New Vehicle-to-Grid Research Shows Cars Can Power Buildings
The future of the automobile is no doubt electric. Despite continued resistance from the oil lobby, electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to grow. EVs offer an emission free personal transport option that, with the proper infrastructure, will require little sacrifice from our current gas-guzzlers. As adoption goes up and prices come down, EVs are promising […]
Latest Cyber Attack Underlines The Need For Better Protection
It hasn’t even been seven weeks since WannaCry, “the biggest ransomware attack of it’s kind,” and here we are again. On Tuesday began a new ransomware attack quickly, and perhaps premtively, dubbed ‘Petya’ – which is currently and quickly spreading across the world, crippling computer systems and demanding victims pay-up to regain access to their […]
Who Is The Internet Of Things Actually For?
“There is a clear philosophical position, even a worldview, behind [the internet of things]: that the world is in principle perfectly knowable, its contents enumerable and their relations capable of being meaningfully encoded in a technical system, without bias or distortion,’ highlights Adam Greenfield in his book entitled ‘Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life’. […]
Reconstructing Smart Buildings into Platforms and Services: Nordic Smart Building Convention 2017
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research Startups and established players alike gathered in Helsinki earlier this month at the Nordic Smart Building Convention to discuss the state of the market for intelligence, digitalization and autonomous sensing in the built environment. This article aims to give a few highlights of the […]
“Developing A Culture Of Cyber Security” – Memoori Speaks With Kaspersky’s David Emm
Connected devices are flooding into every aspect of our lives, and every connection creates a potential weakness that could be exploited by cyber criminals for a variety of reasons. As the number of connections increases we seem to be setting ourselves up for an era of frequent cyber attacks, unless our cyber security professionals can […]
Building Smart Buildings Smartly – The New Technology of Construction
The construction industry is not known for its willingness to implement new technology but even it can’t ignore the wave of new technology flowing around it. As the abilities of artificial intelligence, drones, augmented reality, 3D printing and other new technologies continue to grow; it looks increasingly like construction is ready to open up to […]
The Cyber Security Threat & Its Impact On Physical Security
Our new report Cyber Security in Smart Commercial Buildings provides conclusive proof that the cyber black market, once a varied landscape of discrete, ad hoc networks of individuals motivated by ego and notoriety has become a burgeoning powerhouse of highly organized groups; Often connected with traditional crime groups (e.g., drugs cartels, mafias, terrorists cells) and […]
Many Cities Are Not Being Smart About Cyber Security
Our cities are getting smarter. Some are smarter than others but the breadth of development suggests that almost all large urban areas will one day be smart in one way or another. As with all digital things, connectivity means vulnerability, and if we continue to neglect cyber security in the age of connectivity then the […]
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