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A Real Estate Crisis in the World’s Biggest Potential Smart Building Market
January 19th, 2022Hikvision Spinning Off Smart Home & Robotics Businesses
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Blurring the Lines Between Physical Security & Smart Building Technology
The physical security industry has changed extensively in the past 20-years as buildings got smarter and the threat landscape developed. Over those two decades we have seen the dominance of large conglomerates erode, innovative startups grow, and the rise of China as the undoubted world leader in key physical security segments. Then, over the past […]
Patent Trends Tell the Story of Future Green Building Innovation
Innovation is critical to technological development and especially impactful in spaces undergoing technological transformation, such as buildings. Innovation is the precursor to the technological breakthroughs that are bringing new value to our increasingly smart indoor spaces through applications that improve efficiency, productivity, and the occupant experience. As green buildings take center stage at the COP26 climate […]
Megvii Announces $935M IPO as China’s AI Dragons Prepare to Fly
“As a society, we have experienced three distinct industrial revolutions: steam power, electricity, and information technology. I believe artificial intelligence (AI) is the engine fueling the fourth industrial revolution globally, digitizing and automating everywhere,” says Kai-Fu Lee, chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and author of ‘AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future’. “China is at the […]
The Best Opportunities for Physical Security Business Growth over the Next 3 Years
Our world report on the Physical Security Business 2020 -2025 shows that the industry in the last two years has faced serious challenges, none more so than the COVID-19 pandemic, but it has proved to be robust and will return to significant growth by 2025. Major manufacturers will continue to increase their share of […]
Dirty Cryptocurrencies Must Take A Smart Building Approach to Energy Efficiency
While still seeming strange and unofficial to many, cryptocurrencies have now become an established part of the world economy. These blockchain-based virtual currencies have become hugely popular for a wide variety of people around the world, from mom and pop investors to billionaires such as Elon Musk, who recently began accepting Bitcoin as payment for […]
The Critical Factors That Will Deliver Physical Security Growth to 2025
In this article we discuss the 6 most important factors that will shape the future of the Physical Security industry through the next 5 years, which will require fundamental changes to business strategies. 1. The gap between the major suppliers of Video Surveillance equipment and the many hundreds of smaller suppliers gets wider every year […]
The Post-COVID Urban Agenda: Cities Should Be Smart but MUST Be Fair
Some of the most symbolic images of the past year have been of empty city centers. Deserted images Times Square, Covent Garden, Champs-Élysées, and Shibuya commercial district would have been impossible to capture before the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders that COVID-19 brought about. Our cities have felt the greatest impact of the pandemic and this […]
2021 Could See the End of the Pandemic But Not a ‘Return to Normal’ Trading Conditions
Our 2020-2025 World report on the Physical Security business forecast growth of 3% over the course of 2021. Whilst the pandemic has continued to cause havoc to normal trading / working practices, vaccination programs are gathering pace in many countries and there is more optimism that that the COVID-19 virus can be bought under control […]