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Smart Building Cybersecurity is a Process, Not a Project or a Product
February 12th, 2020Data Drives Investment. Building Data Drives Real Estate Investment.
February 6th, 2020Audio: Is 2020 The Year Of Building Automation Cybersecurity?
Here are the Audio Stream & Video from our 1st Free Webinar of the 2020 Smart Buildings Series. Is 2020 The Year Of Building Automation Cybersecurity? Anto Budiardjo, Jim Lee from Cimetrics & Steve Fey from Totem Building Cybersecurity join Memoori to discuss BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC) and what lies ahead in 2020 for Building […]

Global Investment in Smart Building Technology Exceeds $16.5Bn since 2017
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Since 2017, Memoori has tracked around 970 funding rounds worldwide across the smart buildings space which have attracted over $16.5 billion in disclosed capital investment by venture capital, private equity and corporate investors. Investment in 2019 amounted to $5.4 billion spread over 316 […]

Webinar: Is 2020 the Year of Building Automation Cybersecurity?
Please Join us on Wednesday 5th February 1500 CET | 0900 EDT | 0600 PDT for our 1st FREE Webinar in the 2020 Smart Buildings Series Live from the AHR Expo. This is a FREE Q&A Webinar with Anto Budiardjo & Jim Lee from Cimetrics discussing BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC) and what lies ahead in […]

Record Levels of M&A in the Smart Building Space Indicate a Tipping Point has been Reached
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Over the last three years, Memoori has tracked 594 acquisitions across the smart buildings space, described in detail in our new report on M&A and Investments in Smart Buildings H2-2019. Record levels of M&A in the last 2 years are confirming a shift […]

Hybrid Deep Learning Promises to Better Predict Building Energy Consumption
Accurate forecasting of building energy consumption is as valuable as it is complicated. The ability to reliably predict how much energy a building will use in the next hour, week, or year would bring about a new level of flexibility within and between our smart buildings but a range of internal and external variables have […]

Why Big Oil is Investing in Clean Energy & Smart Buildings
The statistic that 40% of energy consumption comes from buildings is well-used when highlighting the much-needed work of energy optimization solutions. However, on the other side of that coin is the fact that buildings, especially inefficient buildings, are the energy industry’s biggest customer group. Consequently, the thought of “big oil” supporting the growing energy management […]

Investment in Smart Building Companies Totaled $5.4 Billion in 2019
Since 2017, we have tracked around 970 funding rounds worldwide across the smart buildings space which has attracted over $16.5 billion in disclosed capital investment by venture capital, private equity and corporate investors. Investment in 2019 amounted to $5.4 billion spread over 316 funding rounds. This is around 31% lower than the record level of […]

Open Standard or Exclusive Club? Amazon, Apple & Google Collaborate on Smart Home
In the past decade, the smart home has been a compatibility nightmare for users hoping to select freely from the wide range of connected devices entering the market. The world’s biggest tech companies have developed products in the stubborn belief that they can outshine one another to fill homes with connected products from their brands […]