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Mobile Access Control has the Credentials for Growth!
Mobile solutions for access control present a big opportunity to deliver a wide range of user-friendly applications and drive market growth. The backbone of mobile access control is undoubtedly mobile credentials, which have increasingly been shaping the landscape of access control technologies, offering a blend of convenience, security, and remote manageability that is winning over the younger generations of building occupants. Primarily using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Near-Field Communication (NFC) as communication protocols, mobile credentials are virtual keys stored on smartphones. First and foremost, they offer the advantage of leveraging essential personal devices that users are less likely to lose or forget, thus enhancing user convenience. Administrators also benefit from being able to remotely issue, revoke, or replace these credentials, thanks to their cloud-based architecture. That software architecture relies on specialized applications acting as digital keys by interfacing with compatible card readers to control access to authorized entry points. The move to digital credentials […]
A Blueprint for the Future of Retrofitting in Smart Buildings
Progressive regulators around the world are finally beginning to address the problem of inefficient existing building stock that makes up the vast majority of global real estate and consequently, the majority of buildings’ impact on the environment. However, solving the problem of existing inefficient buildings is not as simple as just applying new regulations, significant […]
Eptura Workplace Technology and Software Business Examined
The unification of Archibus, SpaceIQ, Serraview, and iOffice to form Eptura in October 2022 was one of the major mergers in the global integrated workplace management (IWMS) sector. This Research Note examines the business, one year on. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and with large regional offices in London, UK and Melbourne, Australia, Eptura was created in October 2022 reporting over 1,000 employees, 16.3 million users and a customer base spanning more than 16,000 of the world’s leading companies, including 40% of the Fortune 500. Backed by Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm, Condeco, the UK-based provider of workspace scheduling software, was merged with iOffice + SpaceIQ, the US-based workplace and asset management company, to create Eptura. Established from the merger of 10 separate workplace software brands, Eptura is now considered as the leading vendor to consolidate the hybrid work market offering a unified software portfolio across space planning, workplace scheduling, asset and maintenance management, […]
Bosch To Sell Security Products Business, Building Technologies to Focus on Systems Integration
In this Research Note, we examine what’s behind the proposed sale of Bosch Security Products and the realignment to focus on systems integration business in the Building Technologies division, announced on 26th October 2023. This article updates our Bosch Energy & Building Technology Business 2022 Examined article and our coverage of the recent acquisition of Paladin Technologies, which augmented the systems integration business this year. We also assess the outcome for commercial building technologies in the Bosch group. Bosch Security Products Bosch Security and Safety Systems, a segment of Bosch Building Technologies, is a global product business for security and communications solutions. The portfolio includes video security, intrusion detection, fire detection and voice evacuation systems as well as access control and management systems. Professional audio and conference systems for communication of voice, sound and music complete the range. The company plans to sell most of the Building Technologies division’s product business. This includes the Video, […]
Net Zero Buildings Explored: Elithis Tower, Dijon
The Elithis Tower in Dijon, France, is the headquarters of the Elithis Group, a building engineering consultant firm. Completed in March 2009, the facility was one of France’s first net zero buildings and is considered the world’s first positive energy office tower developed at a standard cost of construction. At just over 50,000 square feet of floor space, the Elithis Tower is composed of 10 floors, 9 dedicated office levels and one technical level for the building’s HVAC system. Four floors are occupied by Elithis Engineering, while other floors are occupied by ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency), a radiological services company, other civil engineering firms, and a restaurant. In this research note, we explore the generation and efficiency technologies that enable the Elithis Tower to achieve carbon-positive status, while also considering the facility’s embodied carbon policies and the external factors that helped make this building possible. Source: Arte Charpentier Energy Generation for […]
How Can Smart Building Technology Become Mainstream?
Here is the recording and presentation from our live stream, discussing how Outcomes MUST Outweigh Cost! Until then, Commercial Real Estate Investors will never be fully convinced of the benefits of smart building technology & PropTech in general. A compelling mix of Sustainability, Compliance & Net Zero Targets are driving market growth but how long will it […]
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