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Building Automation Suppliers have a Major Role to Play in BIoT – Will they Grasp this Opportunity?
May 29th, 2015Canary Wharf’s Smart City Cognicity Challenge Announces Winners
May 28th, 2015In the Land of Smart Buildings, the one who Sells is still King
A new research report by Memoori shows that The Building Internet of Things (BIoT) is currently being driven by the IT & Communications industry; but it is the Building Automation Systems (BAS) Business that is morphing into BIoT and they should take the lead role if this new epoch of building control is to reach […]
Smart Home Company Alarm.com Looks to Raise $75m in IPO
Last week, the smart home company Alarm.com filed with the US SEC to list its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol ALRM. They are seeking to raise $75m from the share offering. Alarm.com offers a platform solution for the connected smart home which includes video monitoring and energy management. […]
Smart City Interview with Stephen Hilton, Futures Director at Bristol City Council
The city of Bristol, in the UK, has launched a £75m initiative to create a futuristic smart city urban experiment. Major elements of the project are already underway, turning the city into a high-tech test-bed for innovation and positioning Bristol among the most exciting smart city projects in the world. Memoori speaks with Stephen Hilton, […]
Audio: The Future of Building Automation. Q&A with Mike Newman.
For those who missed it or want to listen again, below is the Audio Stream from our 5th Free Webinar in the 2015 Smart Building Series… The Future of Building Automation & Control Systems. Q&A with Mike Newman Manager of BACSi at Cornell University. Mike was instrumental in the development of the BACnet communication protocol […]
Smart Buildings Acceleration Act Tackles Federal Building Efficiency
US Senator Maria Cantwell has introduced legislation to make federal buildings smarter. The Smart Building Acceleration Act includes many Internet of Things (IoT) devices that will be used to create energy efficiency in buildings. The federal government is the largest building owner in the US with more than 400,000 properties. Sen. Cantwell believes that the […]
Sizing the Markets for Building Automation & BIoT; Forecasting Demand to 2020
The transformation of Building Automation Systems (BAS) into a Building Internet of Things (BIoT) is now underway. But as the plot as yet to unfold the full impact of what BIoT will mean to the BAS industry is not well understood. Memoori’s new report The Transformation of BAS into the Building Internet of Things 2015 […]
Rethinking Workplace Design in Smart Buildings
In the first article of this series, Building Smarter Workplaces for the Digital Age, we discussed Dr Jacqueline Vischer’s ‘Framework for Workplace Concepts’ and commented that the highest state in her model, Psychological Comfort, was dynamic and messy, subject to rapid societal and technological changes. The second article, Digital Disruption, Digital Hope, addressed technology change, […]
Building Automation is Transforming into the Building Internet of Things Creating a $76Bn Market by 2020
Memoori’s new research report is an objective assessment of how & why Building Automation will evolve into the Building Internet of Things over the next 5 years to 2020. For a quarter of a century the BAS industry has been working hard at delivering full connectivity across all the different building services. They have been […]