Building Automation
Change is in the Air for Post-COVID Commercial Real Estate
February 23rd, 2021Small Commercial Buildings Are a Big Opportunity for Technology Growth
February 18th, 2021Future of Buildings Starts with a Clear Definition & Forward-Looking Design
You can’t truly develop an industry without being able to define it. That has been the struggle of the smart buildings industry over the last decade or more, which is still unable to offer a truly standardised definition of what “smart” is. Without a proper definition, almost any building upgrade can be called smart for […]
Recording: Catching Up with the Brick Schema for Smart Buildings
Here is the Video Recording from our 1st Free Webinar of the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. Catching up with the Brick Schema for Smart Buildings. Memoori is joined by Founder Members of the Brick Open Schema Project: Gabe Fierro, University of California, Berkeley, Jason Koh, Mapped Inc & Erik Paulson from JCI. We Discuss the […]
Low Code & No Code Platforms Bringing Legacy Building Equipment Online
“Coding is fundamental to literacy in the future,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering. “We think coding should be required in every school because it’s as important as any kind of second language,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “In fifteen years we’ll be teaching programming just like reading and writing, and […]
Google Digital Buildings Project: Putting the Internet into the Building Internet of Things
The Internet was first conceived as a platform for academics to share information through a structured worldwide web of peer-to-peer connections. As it turned out, everyone else wanted to share information too, leading to the open, user-led, beautiful mess we see online today. Opening up the Internet to the world allowed anything and everything imaginable […]
Recording: Verified Smart – Assessing Smart Building Performance Outcomes
Here is the Video Recording from our 11th Free Webinar of the 2020 Smart Buildings Series. Verified Smart: Assessing Smart Building Performance Outcomes. Memoori is joined by Patrick Sweeney, VP Sales and Marketing at TIA & Tom Blewitt, CTO Connected Technologies at UL to discuss the new SPIRE Smart Building Assessment and Rating Program. We […]
The Heat Rises on Smarter Emergency Management in Buildings
A fire starts in the server room on the 13th floor of an office building. Within minutes smoke detectors get a whiff of the danger and the fire alarm sounds, triggering a full evacuation. The sprinkler system kicks in as the fire rages into the corridors. Firefighters arrive at the scene and rush into the […]
3 Rules of COVID-19 Workplaces: Flexibility, Flexibility, Flexibility
Health concerns, lockdowns, and stay-at-home orders have challenged all organizations in the last 8-months. Some foresaw the length of the crisis and opted for long-term or permanent remote work policies, but the majority of businesses have been left riding the waves of office-return when supported by public health policy and in hope that it might […]
Building Technology Startups Gain a Foothold in Commercial Real Estate Deployments
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Smart building startups are gaining a foothold in the commercial real estate sector as indicated by the Increasing deployment of innovative building technologies developed by new entrants. Building owners and operators are adopting AI and IoT building systems to reduce their carbon footprint, […]