AWS

Energy

Amazon Accelerator Startups Pilot Energy Efficiency Solutions

October 10th, 2024
Energy

Powering the AI Factory

October 3rd, 2024
AI Assistant
Smart Buildings

The Dashboard is Dead… Long Live the AI Assistant

AI assistants are becoming pervasive across many software applications. It’s easy to forget that the ChatGPT chatbot developed by OpenAI only launched less than two years ago (November 30th 2022). Since then, numerous iterations, developers, and applications have emerged, reimagining how we can interact with information systems. All of a sudden, the popular “Single Pain […]

Amazon One Enterprise Access Control
Security

Amazon One Enterprise’s Palm-based Access Control Assessed

Faces, fingers, and eyes have so far dominated the biometric access control landscape but retail giant Amazon is betting on palms to redefine the future of physical security. Initially released in 2020, the palm-based access control solution Amazon One has been gradually building momentum in the retail and hospitality sectors. Now the recent release of […]

VPP Virtual Power Plants
Energy

Can Commercial Real Estate Seize the VPP Opportunity?

Virtual power plants (VPP) have been around for a while now, with early examples almost a decade old, yet mass adoption has been limited so far. However, as technology and policy mature in an increasingly volatile energy landscape, the case for VPPs has begun to rise once again around the world. We have seen a […]

Security

Access-Control-as-a-Service Winning the Race to the Security Cloud

Memoori’s latest global report “The Physical Security Business 2019 – 2024” estimates that investment in Access-Control-as-a-Service (ACaaS) in 2019 was about $620 million and of that approximately 40% was installed in North America. Demand is expected to rise to $1.6Bn by 2024 at a CAGR of 20%. By 2024 demand for VSaaS will have reached […]

Security

VSaaS & ACaaS Move to the Mainstream in 2019

Video surveillance and access control suppliers have continued to build up VSaaS (Video Surveillance as a Service) & ACaaS (Access Control as a Service) services over the last decade and recently major IT companies have invested heavily, targeting the physical security business. Now the supply structure is in place, these services are poised for significant […]

Smart Buildings

J2’s Release of FIN 5 Marks A Year in the Siemens Building Tech Family

Over six days in May 2018, German conglomerate Siemens made its smart building intentions clear. On the 17th, Siemens announced its acquisition of Los Angeles based J2 Innovations, a software framework provider for building automation and IoT technologies. Six days later, on May 23rd, the European manufacturing giant announced the acquisition of California-based IoT-enabled smart […]

Smart Buildings

Amazon Web Services Launches Internet of Things Platform

At its annual re:Invent developer conference last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new internet of things (IoT) platform that helps devices connect to cloud applications and send massive amounts of data to be analysed for future actions. AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with […]

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