Building Services
Smart Buildings: Connected Technology in a Disconnected Industry
July 26th, 2018The Building Controls Sector Could Learn A Lot From Personal Computing
August 10th, 2017
Some Building Systems Are Born Smart, Others Have Smartness Thrust Upon Them
“Some building systems are born smart, some achieve smartness and some have smartness thrust upon them,” Shakespeare might have said if he were a 21st century mechanical engineer or facility manager working in Chicago. Taking center-stage in the ambitious Midwest city is a smart building retrofit worthy of applause. Completed in 1990, 311 South Wacker […]
Where and How does Physical Security fit into the IoT Landscape?
Back in December last year we published the second part of our two part paper What the Customer Needs to Meet the Challenge of IoT & Data-Ism… In Part 1 we discussed customers needs as the physical security equipment business gradually developed products that improved performance, reduced cost and enhanced value add services over the […]
Internet of Things is THE Solution to Today’s Smart Building Inadequacies
We have now entered the third wave of Information Technology which will be even more profound than the previous 2; that have already changed the world over the last 50 years. Below we discuss some of the findings from our recent research into the Internet of Things in Smart Buildings – http://memoori.com/portfolio/internet-things-smart-buildings-2014-2020/ Connected products in […]
Will Building Owners & Operators get a Return on their Internet of Things Investments?
The terminology “The Internet of Things” (IoT) was coined by MIT’s Kevin Ashton around 20 years ago but only more recently has it become a subject of immense interest to the building services industry and their customers; the owners and operators of smart buildings. So where does the Building Service Industry fit within the wider […]