Cloud
What Physical Security Customers Want Today & Need in the Future
December 9th, 2016Data Centers: What is The True Energy Cost of Energy Efficiency?
December 7th, 2016What 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” […]
The Story Of The Humble Substation Is The Story Of Our Future Energy System
The Harmonization of the Grid & Buildings Markets has begun! States our recent report entitled Smart Buildings Meet the Smart Grid. Referring to recent developments in smart grids, distributed energy and their synchronization with smart buildings. As these worlds come together, a forest of skyscrapers looks over a sea of power stations, only separated by […]
Cloud Connected Smart Elevators Enable Preemptive Maintenance Services
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. The announcement this month that the Swiss elevator manufacturer, Schindler was partnering with GE Digital, is further confirmation of the trend for building technology suppliers to establish IoT alliances with IT service and software companies. Schindler’s competitors – ThyssenKrupp, Kone and Otis – have […]
IBM Wants to Create “Buildings Where People Want To Be, Not Just Need To Be”
ISS Group, a provider of facility services, has signed a commercial agreement with IBM to use the power of Watson IoT to transform the management of over 25,000 buildings around the world. Late last year IBM has announced new initiatives designed to bring together the power of its Watson machine learning with the Internet of Things (IoT) […]