Access Control

Smart Buildings

The Internet of Things and its Impact on Commercial & Industrial Buildings

July 7th, 2015
Security

The Physical Security Industry Moves Fast to Integrate but not through IoT

June 24th, 2015
Smart Buildings

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 […]

Security

Reviewing Future Technology Drivers in the Physical Security Industry

The shift from analog to IP has accelerated through the last 5 years, as both manufacturers and consumers focus their spending on technology that can be scalable and deliver not just better security but add on services to improve the operation of their business. However, as we show in our Research Report, growth in IP […]

Security

3 Forces that will Determine the Future of the Security Business

During the last 3 years the competitive landscape of the physical security market has undergone significant change as prices have fallen and margins tightened. This is the result of the growing maturity of IP Networking products where innovation has become more incremental and product differentiation has been difficult to achieve. At the same time changes […]

Articles

Who are the Leading Global Suppliers of Access Control Technology?

Access Control, for so long the poor relative of Video Surveillance, has in 2014 upstaged it by delivering a higher growth rate; which we forecast will continue over the next 5 years. The 3 main drivers for growth are the continuing move to IP technology, the integration of Access control with Identity Management and Wireless […]

Articles

Digital Disruption and Digital Hope for the Workplace

In our previous article, ‘Building Smarter Workplaces for the Digital Age’ (http://memoori.com/building-smarter-workplaces-digital-age/), we introduced a ‘Framework for Workplace Concepts’, developed by Dr Jacqueline Vischer, University of Montreal (The Concept of Workplace Performance and Its Value to Managers, California Management Review, Vol 49, No. 2, Winter 2006). It is summarised in Figure 1. The highest state […]

Security

What Part with Wearable Technology Play in Identity Management?

Separating Internet of Things (IoT) Hype from Reality is getting increasing difficult as wearables and implants push the boundaries of how and why we should manage identity. The BBC published a rather lazy article last week entitled “Office puts chips under staff’s skin” concerning RFID chip hand implants. A company in Sweden, succeeded in drumming […]

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