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GE Current Makes Building Automation Statement with Acquisition of Daintree Networks
April 26th, 2016Will Physical Security be the Epicentre of the Internet of Things in Buildings?
April 22nd, 2016
New Developments in Location-Based Services for Smart Buildings
Last week Rivada Networks was granted a Japanese patent, covering its enhanced Location-Based Services (LBS), to add to its patents in the US, Canada, South Korea, Australia and Russia. Rivada’s eLBS offers up to a five-fold increase in location accuracy in “GPS-stressed environments” by using a combination of sensor fusion and, where available, ad hoc […]

Cost Vs Benefit Vs Security: The Industrial Internet of Things
The industrial internet of things (IIoT) is grappling with an uncomfortable trade off; enhanced ease-of-use and productivity or security. In many industrial scenarios, if connectivity can improve efficiency by just a small percentage, billions of dollars could be saved. However, where there is connectivity there is a cyber-security risk. In the IIoT, where all manner […]

Designing Buildings Today For The Technologies Of Tomorrow
How would we build our buildings today if we knew the technological developments of the future? While this might just be a wish for most in the smart building sector, London headquartered engineering firm Arup is taking the question very seriously. “As engineers, we need to keep an eye on new advances in technology. Sometimes […]

Webinar: China’s Security Industry Flexes its Muscles!
Please Join us on Thursday 28th April for our 4th FREE Webinar in the 2016 Smart Buildings Series, Kindly Sponsored by Tridium… China’s Video Surveillance Companies are Exerting More and More Influence on the Global Security Market. We sit down with Michael Yang, CEO of the CPS Media Group, for a Q&A Webinar. We will […]

What’s a Smart City Without Connected Smart Buildings?
If, as we are led to believe, energy efficiency is an essential part of Smart Cities then it is logical to assume that a Smart City should be full of Smart Buildings inter-connected in a smart manner. However, the reality is that the urban power grid usually only reaches as far into a building as […]
The Combined Market for Energy Software in Smart Buildings Will Rise to Nearly $10Bn by 2020
Our new research report shows that the markets for Enterprise Energy Management, BECS Supervisory Software and Smart Building to Smart Grid Interface Software will rise to nearly $10Bn by 2020; with related software on the Smart Grid side growing at a healthy 12% CAGR to nearly $2bn by 2020. The Harmonization of the Smart Grid […]

The Only Way to ‘Start-Up’ Smart Cities
At Memoori, over the past few months, we have been exploring the development of the Smart City from a new perspective, an organic development of a city, inspired by its inhabitants. Last December we talked about the evolution of the Smart City from the bottom-up rather than a top-down system, which has been prevalent around […]

Dell & Intel Position Themselves at the Heart of the Start-Up Driven IoT Revolution
The new world of the Internet of Things (IoT) has many old world IT companies talking a lot of IoT without really adding much innovation to the data led, start-up driven revolution. However, Dell, along with their perennial partners Intel, are employing a fresh approach of enabling the innovation of start-ups within the IoT space. […]