Building Automation
Mapping the Strategic Direction of Honeywell in the Smart Buildings Space – Part 1
November 8th, 2022#Podcast 15: Is This The Biggest Smart Building Portfolio in the World?
November 2nd, 2022
Mapping Microsoft’s Hybrid Work Business Strategy
In this research note, we map Microsoft’s hybrid work business strategy, analyzing its various partnership and acquisition moves by technology, to trace its course over recent years and explore its intentions for the future. Microsoft has played a fundamental role in shaping the modern workplace. From its role driving individual computing into the office during […]
Buildings Can Do Much More To Reduce Their Cyber Security Risk
The ultimate vision of mass hyper-connected smart buildings hosting hundreds of interconnected devices will not be possible without addressing a wide range of building specific cybersecurity issues. Each system, device, router, server, and gateway, including their multiple versions and iterations, introduces its own cyber security risk to the building. And, without strict segmentation, unauthorized access […]
Mapping the Strategic Direction of JLL in the Smart Buildings Space – Part 1
This Research Note examines the emerging strategic priorities of JLL in the smart commercial buildings space. We have mapped M&A, divestments, strategic partnerships and investment activity to ascertain the growth ambitions of the company, by categorizing the various business relationships by technology and investment type over a 3-year period. This article, Part 1 of a 2-part analysis, is intended as […]
Azbil’s Building Automation Business and 2022 Financials Examined
In this Research Note, we examine Azbil, a public company with a leading position in the Japanese building automation market. Our analysis is based on their annual results, year ending 31st March 2022 and investor presentations. The Building Automation (BA) business, the largest of three business units, accounts for 46.4% of consolidated net sales for the Azbil Group, which increased […]
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 […]
Webinar: The Value of Smartness
Please join us on Thursday 20th October at 1700 Paris | 1600 London | 1100 New York | 0800 San Francisco for our 6th FREE Webinar in the 2022 Smart Buildings Series. We will be joined by Deloitte to Discus How the Value of a Building Operating System goes well beyond the reduction of CAPEX and OPEX. […]
Mapping the Strategic Direction of Siemens in Smart Buildings – Part 1
This Research Note examines the emerging strategic priorities of Siemens in the smart commercial buildings space. We have mapped acquisitions, mergers, strategic partnerships and investment activity to ascertain the Siemens Smart Infrastructure division’s growth by categorizing the various business relationships by technology and investment type over a 3-year period. This article, Part 1 of a 2-part analysis, is intended as […]
Smart Buildings Are Being Forced into a Cyber AI Arms Race
Cyber-attacks now rank alongside natural disasters and climate change as one of humanity’s top ten risks globally, according to the World Economic Forum. Like pandemics and global economic crises, a wide range of buildings, businesses, public services, and almost every facet of society is at risk after the widespread proliferation of connected technologies, such as the […]
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