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Smart Cities and Buildings: The Reaction From COP21
December 18th, 2015Is Li-Fi the Future of Wireless Communications in Smart Buildings?
Should India Build Smart Cities?
India is pushing ahead with plans to build 100 Smart Cities in an effort to drive development and improve living standards across the emerging nation. However, last month’s devastating flooding in Chennai has raised an intriguing debate; Should nations who are largely developing, be focusing on smart development in cities, rather than creating basic protection […]
The Security Industry Promises Sustained Growth to 2020 but Major Differences Exist Across Sectors & Regions
Memoori’s new 2015 annual report on Physical Security shows that despite all the global economic uncertainty of the last 8 years the industry has grown at a CAGR of 7.82% since 2010. Our estimated total value of world production of Physical Security products at factory gate prices in 2015 was $27.2 billion. We forecast that […]
The Evolution of the Smart City: Top-down to Bottom-up
We have been sold a tech-utopia called a Smart City. An urban infrastructure full of sensors, creating masses of data, or “big data”, sent to sophisticated systems, which crunch numbers and control all sorts of applications and information provisions. Hired by national and municipal governments, tech giants such as IBM, Cisco, and Siemens, have developed […]
Audio: How the Cloud is Transforming Identity Management & Access Control
For those who missed it or want to listen again, below is the Audio Stream from our 12th Free Webinar in the 2015 Smart Building Series… “How the Cloud is Transforming Identity Management & Access Control.” A Webinar Q&A with Steve Van Till, President & CEO of Brivo. In this Webinar, we discuss some important […]
The Global Market for Security Products is worth $27.25Bn in 2015
We have published a New Report on Access Control, Intruder Alarms & Video Surveillance in 2015, forecasting to 2020; which brings together all the factors that are influencing this industries future. The total world production value of security products at factory gate prices was $27.25 billion in 2015. Of this Video Surveillance products at $14.68 […]
Samsung launches first Wi-Fi, BLE and ZigBee Access Point & Smallest Outdoor Mesh AP
Samsung is positioning itself at the core of enterprise network solution, unveiling two new IoT access points (APs), claiming industry firsts for the smallest outdoor mesh AP (ZigBee and BLE) and the first AP that combines WiFi, BLE and ZigBee. Emerging from trials in shopping malls, Samsung has opted to branch outdoors with network hardware […]
PSIM Software Evolving into Situation Management and Command & Control Platforms
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. PSIM, or Physical Security Information Management, is a category of software, created by middleware developers, which is designed to integrate multiple unconnected security applications and devices and control them through one comprehensive user interface. These solutions aimed at large facilities have been deployed to […]
Building Owners & Managers Prioritise Security over Efficiency, Survey Says
A survey of nearly 500 buildings across seven major U.S. cities by Honeywell and KRC Research shows that building operators prioritise the safety and security of their facilities over sustainability and productivity. While safety emerged as the top concern, the vast majority of building managers do agree about the beneficial nature of green initiatives. Half […]
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