Building Automation

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Over the last three years, Memoori has tracked 594 acquisitions across the smart buildings space, described in detail in our new report on M&A and Investments in Smart Buildings H2-2019. Record levels of M&A in the last 2 years are confirming a shift […]

Since 2017, we have tracked around 970 funding rounds worldwide across the smart buildings space which has attracted over $16.5 billion in disclosed capital investment by venture capital, private equity and corporate investors. Investment in 2019 amounted to $5.4 billion spread over 316 funding rounds. This is around 31% lower than the record level of […]

Smart buildings are energy efficient. They intelligently control HVAC and lighting systems to improve occupant comfort and worker productivity. Smart buildings can lead cars to empty parking spaces and people to empty meeting rooms. They use data analytics, real-time sensing, and artificial intelligence to enable smart systems… but how many of these functions must be […]

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. In a relatively rare move to augment its building automation business, Johnson Controls, one of the top 3 vendors of building automation systems, announced the acquisition of EasyIO, a manufacturer of open BMS control products on 21st November 2019. In recent years, Johnson […]

The journey of smart building development began years, even decades, ago but we still don’t agree on what a smart building exactly is. We can’t say what amount of technology, human-centricity, efficiency, connectivity, or user-friendliness makes a building smart. It feels like buildings can’t be smart without technology but too much technology could possibly make […]

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Startups in the building automation space are being cultivated by commercial building stakeholders to bring agility and speed to their innovation initiatives. In addition to in-house venture capital funding of startups, the major players in the commercial building space are setting up or […]

Here are the Audio Stream & Video from our 10th Free Webinar of the 2019 Smart Buildings Series, in conjunction with J2 Innovations. Simplifying Building Automation: Leveraging Semantic Tagging with a New Breed of Software. Chris Irwin, VP Sales EMEA & Asia at J2 Innovations, joins Memoori to discuss the problem of data complexity in […]