Access Control
Why the Internet of Things Changes Physical Security
July 30th, 2015The Internet of Things and its Impact on Commercial & Industrial Buildings
July 7th, 2015The Physical Security Industry Moves Fast to Integrate but not through IoT
The major theme at last weeks IFSEC exhibition was about integration across video surveillance, access control and intruder alarms but nothing that showed how it was going to develop fully integrated and automated systems through Internet of Things Technology. Surprising because the Physical Security industry within the Building Automation Systems business has been the leader […]
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 […]
Sizing the Markets for Building Automation & BIoT; Forecasting Demand to 2020
The transformation of Building Automation Systems (BAS) into a Building Internet of Things (BIoT) is now underway. But as the plot as yet to unfold the full impact of what BIoT will mean to the BAS industry is not well understood. Memoori’s new report The Transformation of BAS into the Building Internet of Things 2015 […]
World Market for Building Internet of Things (BIoT) Systems to Reach $76 Billion by 2020
The transformation of Building Automation Systems (BAS) into a Building Internet of Things (BIoT) is now underway. But as the plot is unfolding, the full impact of what BIoT will mean to the BAS industry is not yet well understood. Memoori’s new report published next week – The Transformation of BAS to BIoT: Market Prospects […]
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 […]
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 […]

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 […]
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 […]