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Smart buildings are energy efficient. They intelligently control HVAC and lighting systems to improve occupant comfort and worker productivity. Smart buildings can lead cars to empty parking spaces and people to empty meeting rooms. They use data analytics, real-time sensing, and artificial intelligence to enable smart systems… but how many of these functions must be […]

If we don’t address climate change and keep anthropogenic warming under the 2°C threshold set out by the Paris Climate Accord, then we will face the wrath of nature through rapidly rising sea levels, increased drought and wildfires, and other trends that will make life on earth more difficult — this is the physical risk […]

The world of proptech, smart buildings, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is a dynamic place as these overlapping technologies find their feet in this 4th industrial revolution. It pays to know someone “in the know,” so this week Memoori spoke to IoT & proptech industry thought leader Charles Reed Anderson. Charles’ Singapore-based company, CRA […]

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. In a relatively rare move to augment its building automation business, Johnson Controls, one of the top 3 vendors of building automation systems, announced the acquisition of EasyIO, a manufacturer of open BMS control products on 21st November 2019. In recent years, Johnson […]

Occupant centric controls (OCC) is a key approach to smart buildings. Gathering adaptive control parameters, such as occupant or environmental data, to improve occupant comfort, energy efficiency, and other smart building objectives. The industry understands the need for OCC but numerous research studies in the past year have highlighted the fact that there have been […]

The analogies between smart buildings and the human body persist reliably in industry media and analysis. While they are, in essence, nothing more than novel comparisons, they serve to help us understand the digital evolution of buildings in the cyber-physical age. By extending these analogies and recognizing their limits we can wrap our minds around […]

Here are the Audio Stream & Video from our 11th Free Webinar of the 2019 Smart Buildings Series. Unlocking Smart Building Potential with the RealEstateCore Ontology. Erik Wallin from Idun Real Estate joins Memoori to discuss RealEstateCore, an open source semantic web ontology combined with a business usefulness approach. More Information can be found at; […]

“The window for tackling the climate crisis is closing quickly, meaning incremental measures are no longer enough. We must go beyond decarbonizing power generation and concentrate our efforts on electrifying heat and transport, as well as improving energy efficiency. It is absolutely critical that, in addition to better sourcing of energy, we focus efforts on […]