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Semiconductor Partnerships Signal Growing Maturity of Smart Building Market
January 18th, 2024Investment in the Smart Buildings Space Declined 26% in 2023
January 11th, 2024
10 Notable Strategic Investments in the Smart Buildings Space in 2023
This Research Note reviews strategic investments in the smart buildings space over the last 12 months. A diverse range of corporate stakeholders – commercial real estate service firms, building owners and operators, vendors of building automation systems and HVAC equipment firms – have continued to fund startups with innovative technology platforms and business models. Investments […]
What’s Behind Schneider Electric’s Move to Divest AutoGrid to Uplight?
This Research Note looks at what’s behind Schneider Electric’s latest move to divest AutoGrid to Uplight, the Boulder, Colorado-based utility software company. We review the history and assess the current state of play behind the transaction. In December 2023, Uplight announced an agreement to acquire AutoGrid, a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and Distributed Energy Resource […]
AI + Memoori = AIM!
Here is the recording and presentation from our live stream, discussing AIM, an artificial intelligence chatbot service we have developed to simplify the way our clients access & engage with smart building market analysis. We walk through how AIM was Developed, potential use cases & why we think it is a tool that will dramatically […]
Beyond the Hype: Assessing What We Know About the PassiveLogic Ecosystem, So Far
Many startups set out hoping to change the game, to put a “dent in the universe” but the reality is that few get close. The odds of “success” if you are funded by a top VC are something like 0.05%. Even “success” doesn’t mean you change the game. Salt Lake City-based startup PassiveLogic is being […]
Mapping Future Growth in the Video Surveillance Market
Growth in the global video surveillance market has been tempered in recent years due to the impacts of the pandemic, geopolitical tensions and supply shortages. Total global revenues reached an estimated $30.4 billion in 2022, representing 4.5% growth but significantly lower than the 11.7% growth seen during the 2021 post-pandemic period, according to our research. […]
AI + Memoori = AIM!
1998. The year I fell in love with a website! Walking into the lab of my university computer science department, I sat down at a workstation and typed in for the very first time a URL that would become a beloved companion. Google.com. It was immediately apparent that this was something different, something intriguing. The […]
Tracking Cleaning Industry Innovation in Smart Buildings
Few sectors got a bigger boost from the pandemic than the cleaning industry. It felt like one of COVID’s lasting impacts on the world would be an elevated level of hygiene and investment in R&D duly followed by new and established players. Now approaching 2024, we are seeing that investment come to fruition through a […]
Schneider Electric Capital Markets Day 2023: Key Takeaways for Smart Buildings
Schneider Electric hosted its Annual Capital Markets Day for investors and financial analysts, at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on 9th November 2023. This Research Note focuses on the French conglomerate’s perspective of its energy management and automation portfolio in the smart commercial buildings market. Key takeaways are highlighted across its offerings and vertical […]
