Coronavirus
Everybody Wants to Save the Planet But Who Wants to Clean the Floor?
April 30th, 2020Lockdowns Strikes a Big Blow to Bricks-and-Mortar Retail
April 27th, 2020
Uncertainty is the Only Certainty for Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID
“If we think about real estate as an asset class its value isn’t entirely determined by short term rent rolls,” said Tim Savage, Clinical Assistant Professor of Real Estate at NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate. “In the short run, we will see perceived values fall but this is a natural disaster, not a financial […]
HVAC Industry Demonstrates the Flexible Power of Digital Systems in a Crisis
If our walls could talk, they would be asking us what the hell is going on. Healthcare buildings have gone into overdrive, hotels are being converted into hospitals, fashion-houses transformed into high-volume PPE factories, auto-manufacturing into ventilator-production, and everyone is at home while an unprecedented amount of our commercial real estate sits empty. We were […]
Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Drive Further ACaaS & VSaaS Growth?
When we published our 2019 World Report on Physical Security at the end of last year, we forecasted an annual growth rate of 15% from 2020 to 2024 for both Access Control as a Service (ACaaS) and Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS). But by the middle of April 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused […]
Making People Count in A Crisis – Memoori Speaks to Density
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, lockdowns keep almost half the world’s population at home, and people gradually accept the inevitable recession we are sliding into, many are looking to technology for answers. Currently, building occupancy data can only show the true extent of lockdowns. However, in the future, the same data sets promise to help […]
Building Occupancy Data Reveals the Extent of the US Lockdown
The US now has the highest number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities anywhere in the world and most States are implementing strict lockdown measures to varying degrees. Fascinatingly, some of the best data we have on who and when people actually started isolating, is building occupancy data from smart buildings. The following graphic, by access […]
The Impact of IoT & VSaaS on Video Surveillance Routes To Market
Our latest report on the World Market for Physical Security shows that over the last 10 years a steady increase in the share of video surveillance equipment being traded through the Systems Integrator route to market, when analysed through 5 different channels of distribution. During this time a number of significant changes have taken place […]
Imagining the “Pandemic-Smart” Buildings of the Future
We are in the midst of an unprecedented global crisis. Pandemics have happened before, many of them more deadly than we expect COVID-19 to be, but in our increasingly populated and globalized society, the impact and the reaction are different. Today, in our highly connected world of smartphones and smart buildings, we should be better […]
Can UV-Light Kill Coronavirus in Our Contaminated Buildings?
Hospitals worldwide have become ground zero for the COVID-19 crisis. While the rest of us are forced to find innovative ways to maintain a normal life under lockdown, our brave healthcare workers heal the sick on the frontline of this biological war. As hospitals become a battleground in the fight against this invisible enemy, it […]
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