Apple

Security

Building Resilience in the Physical Security Supply Chain

January 19th, 2023
Security

Apple Set to Disrupt the Access Control Market?

January 6th, 2023
Smart Buildings

Charting Echelon’s Meandering Journey to EnOcean

In February 1988, in Palo Alto, California, a startup company was founded by Armas Clifford “Mike” Markkula Jr. the grandson of a Finnish immigrant to the US. That company, Echelon Technology, would go on to develop the LON protocol, and help pioneer the evolution of open standard networking platforms, making a big contribution to the IoT […]

Smart Buildings

An Unfortunate Supply Chain of Events

“The global electronics and semiconductor industries are currently suffering the most serious disruptions to supply chain operations in living memory. Supply chain issues have been driven by a series of interrelated trends that have served to complicate, compound, and increase both the scale and impact of the challenge,” reads our latest research study. “These issues have […]

Smart Buildings

Has Smart Home Technology Lost Its Way?

Over the last 18-months, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, commercial buildings have largely been empty and residential buildings have never seen such high occupancy during the day. Unsurprisingly, home improvement has been high on the agenda for people around the world, especially in the affluent developed nations that were hit hard by the virus […]

Smart Buildings

A Year in The Life of a Building — The Turbulent Story of 2020

The beginning of 2020 seems like a long time ago. While COVID-19 was already starting to make an impact in China and neighboring countries, for the rest of the world it was just another January. In the smart building industry, we were talking about Amazon, Apple, and Google asserting their dominance over the smart home […]

Smart Cities

How COVID-19 & the Recession Will Impact the Tech Industry

The swift and massive shock of the coronavirus pandemic and shutdown measures to contain it have plunged the global economy into a severe contraction. According to World Bank forecasts, the global economy will shrink by 5.2% this year. That decline represents the deepest recession since the Second World War, the World Bank says in its […]

Smart Cities

Dialog Semiconductor Continues Shopping Spree with Another IoT Acquisition

Dialog Semiconductor has acquired Adesto for $500 million in a deal announced last week. This is the UK-based semiconductor manufacturer’s second Internet of Things (IoT) focused acquisition within four months. The deal signals the next stage in the company’s diversification away from its biggest customer, Apple, and into the smart building and smart cities space. […]

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