COVID-19
Disruption, Complexity, & Consolidation: The Workplace in the COVID Era
July 27th, 2021Beyond COVID-19 to the Vast Benefits of Cleaner Workplace Air
July 13th, 2021
How Far We Really Are From AI-Enabled Smart Buildings
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a symbol of futuristic technological development since the mid-1950s but for the vast majority of that time it has been limited to the imaginations and research of academics and science fiction writers. In the last 10-years, however, our increasing computational capabilities have begun to lay the foundations for practical applications […]
Deployment of Workplace Apps Driven by Hybrid Working Models
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Inpixon, an indoor intelligence company, recently announced that its smart office app, acquired in the recent CXApp acquisition, had been selected by a major European-based commercial and retail banking firm with more than 50,000 employees for implementation across more than 75 locations. This deployment supports the […]
The Apps Behind the Post-COVID Workplace
“The workplace management industry is in the early stages of fundamental change, where companies need new ways to deliver an environment that the modern workforce demands. Over the last two years, the market for workplace experience platforms has evolved and accelerated in large part due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” states our latest report – The […]
The Not So Long Road to Virtually Virus-Free Office Buildings
On an otherwise ordinary January lunchtime in the canteen of a car parts company in the small town of Stockdorf in Southern Germany, a worker turned to a colleague and asked them to pass the saltshaker, in return they got the salt and the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This, according to German scientists, was the earliest […]
Raising the Level of Healthcare Building Intelligence Before the Next Pandemic
Our buildings have felt the unprecedented effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While offices, schools, and retail outlets have seen months of zero occupancies, our residential buildings have played the role of home and workplace as hundreds of millions were locked down for extended periods over the past 14-months. However, perhaps no type of building has […]
Solving the Smart Building Cybersecurity Problem with AI
“The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday,” said the late Hungarian-British electrical engineer and Nobel prize-winning physicist, Dennis Gabor, CBE, FRS. In our modern world, […]
A History of Bad Office Lighting Must Make Way for a Human-Centric Future
“Every office I’ve ever worked in has had lighting that’s made me feel varying degrees of insane and depressed. To be clear, I’m not speaking specifically about the New York Magazine office lighting — our combo of LED overhead and natural light is not uniquely bad, but it is definitely bad in the way that […]
New EU Regulations Could Become the Global Standard for AI Development
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a means, not an end. It has been around for decades but has reached new capacities fueled by computing power. This offers immense potential in areas as diverse as health, transport, energy, agriculture, tourism or cyber security. It also presents a number of risks,” said Thierry Breton, the EU’s internal market […]