Building Energy Management Systems

Our image of large cities tends to be dominated by skyscrapers and large office complexes, but the reality is that these big buildings only make up a tiny fraction of total commercial building stock. In fact, 94% of the commercial building in the US are made up of properties with under 50,000 square feet of […]

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Strategic investments from corporate stakeholders in the built environment have contributed to a maturing smart buildings space in the current quarter. Investors supported a range of building technologies from IoT platforms, occupancy analytics, touchless security screening, microgrids, energy-as-a-service and more. This funding was […]

As COVID-19 cases rose and lockdown measures came into effect around the world, commercial building occupancy dropped dramatically, from 100% to almost zero in the space of a week in many places. Many might expect near-zero occupancy to mean near-zero energy consumption, but new data reveals that this is not the case. In fact, many […]

The building was once the domain of the operational technology (OT) industry until things started getting smart. As buildings began to generate more and more data, the information technology (IT) industry leveraged their expertise to take its share of the evolving market. Today, OT firms race to develop the data capabilities that will allow them […]

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. ABB is targeting a new growth opportunity in the commercial building solutions and services sector, according to its November 2019 Electrification Investor Day in Italy. The group presentation views commercial buildings as a high-growth segment with a $21 billion market size and a […]

Accurate forecasting of building energy consumption is as valuable as it is complicated. The ability to reliably predict how much energy a building will use in the next hour, week, or year would bring about a new level of flexibility within and between our smart buildings but a range of internal and external variables have […]

Occupant centric controls (OCC) is a key approach to smart buildings. Gathering adaptive control parameters, such as occupant or environmental data, to improve occupant comfort, energy efficiency, and other smart building objectives. The industry understands the need for OCC but numerous research studies in the past year have highlighted the fact that there have been […]