Access Control
$2.37Bn Funding for the Smart Buildings Space in H1 2020 during the Pandemic
July 13th, 2020Short Term Prospects for Physical Security Depend Upon Containing COVID19
July 6th, 2020
The Data Privacy Debate Has Not Changed But The World Has
We have been Imagining the “Pandemic-Smart” Buildings of the Future since the early stages of the global COVID-19 crisis. Adapting existing technology and placing greater emphasis on emerging technology that offers safety and infection-slowing applications to get people back into commercial buildings. Occupancy analytics for social distancing, fever-identifying thermal cameras, and an array of contactless […]
Can’t Touch This! Report Hammers Home Key Message of Post-COVID Buildings
To survive the COVID-19 pandemic, society returned to traditional defensive measures; lockdowns, social distancing, plus soap and water. To cope with the crisis, we have embraced the digital world like never before, seamlessly swapping physical for virtual during the social aspects of work and play. To return to “normality,” we will again turn to technology, […]
COVID-19 has Created a Multitude of Challenges & New Solutions in Physical Security
During the last 4 months Covid-19 has created an economic tsunami across the world, and in its wake has caused a reduction in demand for physical security products during the first 4 months of 2020. Memoori’s annual world report on the Physical Security Business has over the last 12 years shown that only in 2 […]
Commercial Buildings are at the Center of our “Return to New Normal” Strategy
China is starting to return to some kind of normality. In Italy, Spain, and a host of other countries that were hit early or lightly, they have introduced their de-escalation plans and have begun to ease lockdown measures. It will still take a while, but we can now begin to consider when we might return […]
Will COVID-19 Drive Physical Security Consolidation Through M&A?
Our world annual report on the Physical Security business has charted M&A activity since 2008. Over the last few months we have published a few articles analysing the various outcomes that COVID-19 has caused the business during the first quarter of 2020. In particular we have looked at areas of the business that by 2021 […]
Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Drive Further ACaaS & VSaaS Growth?
When we published our 2019 World Report on Physical Security at the end of last year, we forecasted an annual growth rate of 15% from 2020 to 2024 for both Access Control as a Service (ACaaS) and Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS). But by the middle of April 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused […]
Building Occupancy Data Reveals the Extent of the US Lockdown
The US now has the highest number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities anywhere in the world and most States are implementing strict lockdown measures to varying degrees. Fascinatingly, some of the best data we have on who and when people actually started isolating, is building occupancy data from smart buildings. The following graphic, by access […]
Will Mass Surveillance Become a Leading Epidemic Control Technology?
In China, hospitals that were overflowing a few weeks ago now have an abundance of empty beds, huge makeshift hospitals built for the coronavirus patients are being disassembled, and there is now a little more certainty about the projected end of the lockdown measures. The reduction of COVID-19 cases in the country where they first […]
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