COVID-19
Focus Shifts to Health in our Post-COVID Smart Cities of the Future
June 4th, 2020Can’t Touch This! Report Hammers Home Key Message of Post-COVID Buildings
June 3rd, 2020
Smart Retail Revolution: Extended Lockdown is Changing Buying Patterns Forever
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus, and the lifesaving measures taken around the world, will trigger one of the most disruptive periods our global economic system has ever seen. We were already due a downturn, but the pandemic and months of lockdown around the world have probably turned that downturn into a deep recession, significantly […]
Exploring the Global ‘Cyber Pandemic’ & Practical Solutions for Unprepared Enterprises
“Cybercriminals thrive on chaos. The chaos induced by the COVID-19 pandemic on societal behavior at all levels is creating conditions that are ripe for cybercriminals and other malicious actors to exploit,” explains our latest report. “While some of the biggest risks will be faced by the healthcare industry, whose services and systems and technologies are […]
COVID-19 has Created a Multitude of Challenges & New Solutions in Physical Security
During the last 4 months Covid-19 has created an economic tsunami across the world, and in its wake has caused a reduction in demand for physical security products during the first 4 months of 2020. Memoori’s annual world report on the Physical Security Business has over the last 12 years shown that only in 2 […]
The Virtual Reality of the Post-COVID “New Normal”
“Man is by nature a social animal…” said Greek philosopher-politician Aristotle over 2000-years-ago. His words may never have been more relevant than they are today, in our current crisis-induced era of social distancing. Socializing has not stopped, however, we are social creatures and we have the technology to remain social for work and play, even […]
New Post-COVID Building IoT Report Reveals Scale of the Crisis & Opportunity
“The lockdown will directly affect sectors amounting to up to one-third of GDP in the major economies. For each month of containment, there will be a loss of 2 percentage points in annual GDP growth,” explained Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OECD estimate that the direct hit […]
Our Cybersecurity is More Vulnerable & More Important than it has Ever Been
For years we’ve lived in fear of computer viruses that would cripple our digital infrastructure. Instead, we got a human virus that forced us further into the digital age. In a matter of weeks, remote working became a standard around the world and socializing beyond your household became a virtual activity. While society grapples with […]
Decline in Q1 VC Investment in Smart Buildings Offset by Increase in Transaction Values
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. The number of Q1-2020 funding rounds in the smart buildings space declined 27%, but there was an increase of 84% in transaction values compared to Q4-2019. Venture capital financing is undoubtedly being impacted by COVID-19 but it is too early to say by […]
Is COVID-19 putting the Brakes on 5G Smart City Deployments?
Over the past 6 months there has been research claiming that there will be a dramatic explosion of video data, predicting that it could account for 15.1 zettabytes of data annually, which would be more than any other IoT application. This influx in data, as well as the growing adoption of video analytics and AI, […]
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