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The Impact of IoT on Building Performance Software
January 27th, 2017Software’s Growing Influence on the Physical Security Business
December 23rd, 2016
Reinventing BMS For Any Size Building
“Folks — it’s time to stop being so entrenched in our beliefs about what a BMS is or should be. It’s time to learn from the group across the aisle — the consumer sector — that is out-innovating us,” stated Varun Nagaraj, president and CEO of Sierra Monitor Corp. Nagaraj recounted a story of his […]
What Physical Security Customers Want Today & Need in the Future
This is the second of a two part article that analyses what the customer of physical security equipment wants today and what they needs in the future. In the first article we discussed the customers needs today operating within the 2 main development stages of physical security equipment that have taken place in the last […]
Data Centers: What is The True Energy Cost of Energy Efficiency?
Sensors and other forms of data collection stream information from almost every imaginable source to the cloud. There, data is stored, filtered, crunched and analyzed to create energy optimization and actionable energy intelligence, among other things, to accelerate us into a greener, cleaner world. However, the cloud is not a virtual space in the metaphorical […]
What Physical Security Customers Want Today & Need in the Future
This is the first of a two part article that analyses what the customer of physical security equipment wants today and what they needs in the future. We have in the Part 1 set out the 2 major stages in the development of the business over the last 20 years and reviewed what customers will […]
One Building’s Data Exhaust May Be Another’s Actionable Data Intelligence
In the world of smart homes, buildings and cities, we collect far more data than we use. Considerable time and effort is spent designing computer programs that sift through this mass of data to find useful nuggets of information that allow us to develop actionable intelligence. Then we spend significant amounts of money creating storage […]
A More Pragmatic Approach To Cyber Security For IoT, Memoori Speaks To IoTium
On October 21st 2016 we saw one of the largest cyber attacks in history. The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which brought down some of the internet’s largest sites, used internet of things (IoT) enabled devices such as video surveillance cameras and printers, to overwhelm the popular DNS service provider Dyn. The nature of […]
Welcome To Smart Japan
Europe, the US and China dominate smart city developments, Singapore and South Korea are grabbing some headlines, while India floods news feeds with its own smart city ambitions. Quietly a giant sleeps, a tech giant with the capacity for great smartness is slowly but surely developing its cities in a bid to leap frog all […]
On The Cloud, Through The Fog, To The Edge: The IoT In Smart Buildings
The Internet of Things is connecting billions of “things” to the Internet, each “thing” collects data and all that data needs to be processed before it can be turned into intelligence or an automated action. This massive increase of data transfer, storage and processing poses a computing question; should data processing happen at the “thing” […]
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