COVID-19
The IoT in Smart Buildings – Market Prospects In The Age Of COVID19
May 11th, 2020Recording: How Data Will Facilitate Your Office Re-Entry Strategy
May 8th, 2020
Commercial Buildings are at the Center of our “Return to New Normal” Strategy
China is starting to return to some kind of normality. In Italy, Spain, and a host of other countries that were hit early or lightly, they have introduced their de-escalation plans and have begun to ease lockdown measures. It will still take a while, but we can now begin to consider when we might return […]
Will COVID-19 Drive Physical Security Consolidation Through M&A?
Our world annual report on the Physical Security business has charted M&A activity since 2008. Over the last few months we have published a few articles analysing the various outcomes that COVID-19 has caused the business during the first quarter of 2020. In particular we have looked at areas of the business that by 2021 […]
Webinar: How Data Will Facilitate Your Office Re-Entry Strategy
** The Recording of this Webinar can now be found HERE ** Please Join us on Thursday 7th May 1700 CET | 1100 EDT | 0800 PDT for our 5th FREE Webinar in the 2020 Smart Buildings Series. How Data Will Facilitate Your Office Re-Entry Strategy. Dan Ryan from VergeSense joins Memoori to discuss the […]
Everybody Wants to Save the Planet But Who Wants to Clean the Floor?
“Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest,” said lifestyle author, Radhika Mundra, long before the arrival of coronavirus and the subsequent cleaning crusade that swept across the world. There is a growing sense that the world has changed, that things will be different after we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, “a new normal” the […]
Lockdowns Strikes a Big Blow to Bricks-and-Mortar Retail
The UK saw the biggest drop in retail sales since records began 30-years-ago, despite record increases in grocery sales, especially alcohol. In March, US retail sales also slumped to their worst monthly decline since records began in 1982, despite record grocery retail numbers. Both these markets delayed the start of their lockdown and have not […]
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 […]
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