Blockchain
Blockchain Series: Trusted Digital Identities Hold the Answer to IoT Development
April 4th, 2018The Smart Grid May Need a Little Competition to Find its Sense of Urgency
February 16th, 2018
The First Step “Towards Creating a Global Blockchain Powered Energy Trading Network”
“The future of our energy system is distributed. Made up of billions of endpoints interacting with each other — microgrids, renewable energy, smart buildings, appliances, sensors and energy management software. It is essential to create a secure system that can verify autonomous transactions in real-time across these nodes as market conditions change,” we said in […]

Partnerships & Investments in Startups Gain Momentum as Smart Building Players Boost Innovation
Smart building players are strengthening their open innovation capabilities through investments and partnerships with startups and the incubators and accelerators that support their development. Corporates are recognizing the need to increase their agility and speed in developing smart connected products and services by leveraging software, analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to […]

DeepMind and National Grid Announce Potential Partnership
An electricity grid has often been equated to a central nervous system, sending signals across its extensive network to bring its body of connections to life. Like a central nervous system the power grid needs a brain to turn intention into action, one that can learn and anticipate in order to develop efficiency and functionality. […]

Blockchain Is The “Missing Link” To A Decentralized, CO2-Free Energy Future
In the future, batteries in homes and buildings will be key to stabilizing the power grid by enabling better integration of renewable energies. In Germany, that future is becoming a reality today with the use of blockchain technology. European electricity transmission system operator TenneT, energy storage firm sonnen, renewable energy producer Vandebron and technology giant […]

Real Estate Service Firms Seek to Differentiate through PropTech and Early Stage Ventures
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research Real estate firms are joining the race to own the intelligent buildings sector as they seek to differentiate their third party services to building owners and operators worldwide. CBRE Group, Inc. is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm with 2016 […]

The Innovative Startups that could bring AI & Blockchain to Smart Buildings
The world is full of new technologies promising to reshape society but perhaps none are more exciting and wide-ranging than artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. The smart building sector has begun to embrace and understand the potential of these technologies for its own continued growth. “With the advent of artificial intelligence in the smart building […]

Startups are Playing a Crucial Role in Smart Building Innovation!
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. Memoori’s brand new report entitled Startups and Their Impact on Smart Buildings 2017 highlights the critical contribution that Startups are making to the introduction of innovation in the Smart Buildings space. We define a startup as: a private company formed no earlier than 2008 […]

Blockchain and the Energy System of the Future
“It’s clear for those watching the evolution of blockchain that we’re at the start of a digital turning point, an evolutionary step in the way value and opportunity are created and distributed”, concludes an article by British publication Raconteur. The article demonstrates the future of blockchain in a series of interesting charts, mainly focused on […]