Cloud
BIM Adoption In The UK Is High, But Expectation Is Higher
July 12th, 2017Could BIM Be Vulnerable To WannaCry Style Ransomware Attacks?
June 1st, 2017
Strategic Partnerships are Critical to the Development of Building Performance Software Companies
Memoori has tracked a number of strategic partnerships between several of the leading players of building performance software in recent times. These are proving to be critical in the development of new software products but partnerships have not always been popular in this business so what is driving it? Our report The Market for Building […]
Beyond Energy Management: Building Performance Optimization Services Take Centre Stage
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research We are seeing the convergence of Building Energy Management with Facilities Management and Asset Management, as software and services addressing building performance optimization take centre stage in the commercial and industrial buildings market. The boundaries between technology offerings are blurring as IoT and digital […]
Interconnected Nature of The IoT Means Cyber Attacks Can Pose Risks Far Beyond The Initial Point Of Entry
“Cyber security is widely perceived as one of the most prominent threats facing society today,” begins our latest report Cyber Security in Smart Commercial Buildings 2017 to 2021. However, this is not necessarily because attackers are infiltrating society’s most important systems but because seemingly inconsequential elements can act as an entry point for a whole […]
Is Russia a Sleeping Smart Building Giant That’s About To Wake Up?
With almost 150 million people, the world’s 12th largest economy, and just handful of smart buildings, Russia represents a sleeping giant in the smart technology sector. The country’s economy has also taken an upward turn recently, after years of relative stagnation. Economic Development Minister Maksim Oreshkin upgraded his growth forecast to 2% for 2017. “We […]
Building Technology Suppliers Strengthen Digital Innovation through Accelerator and Incubation Hubs
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. The announcement by UTC on 20 March 2017 of a $300 million investment in a Digital Accelerator based in Brooklyn, New York is another example of the trend by building technology suppliers to step up their digital innovation efforts. The accelerator will serve as […]
Amazon S3 Outage Reminds Us The Cloud Is Not Perfect
On the 28th February 2017 the cloud went down. Or at least a large section of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) went down, taking a lot of things down with it. The list of affected sites is long but the outage points to a much bigger problem; what does an outage […]
VSaaS & ACaaS Move into the Mainstream
VSaaS (Video Surveillance as a Service) and ACaaS (Access Control as a Service) services realized substantial growth in 2016 and now look set to finally achieve the much vaunted predictions made in previous years about their potential to become multi-billion markets. The global market size for VSaaS in 2013 was approximately $300m but since then […]
The Evolution of the Building Management System: Data and Connectivity
While building management systems (BMS) have become smart in recent years, they are certainly not new. In fact they have gradually evolved over the last 50+ years and into the 21st century systems we see today. BMS has always been boosted by the technological developments of the time, but today’s smart building technology is influencing […]
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