Building Management Systems
Johnson Controls Augments Building Control Product Portfolio with Acquisition of EasyIO
November 26th, 2019Heavily Funded Chinese AI Unicorns Target Smart Cities, Public Security & Building Management
September 16th, 2019A Simple Way to Make Buildings Smart is a Simple Way to Attract Smart Investors
Money talks, and in the smart building industry money often talks about those firms making simple technology that is affordable and easy to implement. Technologies that have the potential to bring the value of smart building technology to the vast majority of building stock have attracted significant interest from major players in recent months and […]
Consolidation Intensifies in European Building Automation & Energy Services Market
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. The European building automation market is seeing further evidence of consolidation and investment, as acquisitions continue to intensify competition in the sector. In the last two years, corporate buyers providing building management solutions, energy services and technical facilities management have acquired solution providers […]
Integration is Key to a Smart Building’s Success or Failure
“Successful digital transformation is like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. It’s still the same organism, but it now has superpowers,” says George Westerman, a research scientist at the MIT Center for Digital Business. When digital transformation is done wrong, however, “all you have is a really fast caterpillar,” he points out, “and it’s hard […]
Cyber Attacks Could “Shut Down a Building with One Click” Research Shows
As the global smart building movement marches on at increasing pace, it is sometimes easy to forget that many, building management systems hold potential vulnerabilities. The results of a one-year research project have revealed more than 100 flaws in building management and access control systems of the some popular vendors investigated. In response, US Homeland […]
What is the Most Critical Buying Proposition in Physical Security Today?
How Valuable is the Channel in Smart Building Technology?
In the midst of increased M&A activity in the smart building space, it is natural to consider the implications to building owners, operators and other competing solution providers. Do these acquisitions mean that smart building technology is maturing and has “arrived”. Or, were these acquisitions made opportunistically? It’s hard to know, and the answers may […]
BuildingIQ Improves New Construction & Retrofit Capabilities with Buildingsense Acquisition
Mergers and acquisitions have become commonplace in the smart building sector. The fact that so many individual systems come together to create the complex entity broadly defined as “the smart building” lends itself to firms bringing together their unique skills in order to offer a more complete service to their customers. In the real estate […]
A New Layered & Probabilistic Approach To Occupancy Sensing
“Occupant presence and behavior in buildings is considered a key element towards building intelligent and pervasive environments. Yet, practical applications of energy intelligent buildings typically suffer from high sensor unreliability,” highlights a recent paper that proposes a fundamentally new way of inferring occupancy in smart buildings. The study has been able to demonstrate an additional […]