Cyber Security
Bringing Small Buildings into the Smart Buildings Market
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The Open, Tech Agnostic, Horizontal Future of Building IoT Infrastructure
The Building Internet of Things (BIoT) market is evolving. Where previously, the focus of the market was to deliver the prerequisite technologies in the BIoT hardware stack, such as devices, sensors, and connectivity. Now, we are seeing a transition to more results-based and analytics-driven applications that seek to bring about certain outcomes, be that cost […]
Smart Building Protocols Strive for Greater Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is a massive issue for smart buildings. Cybercriminals are relentless but we must accept them as a reality of connectivity. What we shouldn’t accept is that the IoT sector helps them by churning out insecure products that are picked up by unsuspecting owners and operators who may have limited IT and cybersecurity knowledge. Facilities […]
Smart Building Q1 Venture Funding Declined 21% but still the 3rd Largest Quarter on Record!
This Research Note highlights our analysis of investments in the smart buildings space in the first quarter of 2022. We review how funding levels are faring compared with last year’s record of over $13 billion invested. Memoori has tracked 85 funding rounds amounting to over $3.5 billion across the smart buildings space in Q1 2022. Note that our analysis […]
Recording: The Developers Smart Building Project Canvas
Here is the Video Recording from our 3rd Free Webinar of the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. Don’t forget you can now Subscribe to ALL our Webinars & Podcasts on YouTube! Memoori was joined by Mike Brooman, CEO of Vanti, to discuss The Developers Smart Building Project Canvas and try to answer the question, How can […]
Customers Find Security in the Cloud During COVID
There has been a steady transition towards cloud-based as-a-service business models for smart building services over the past decade. This gradual shift began to challenge long-established business models, relationships, and channels of distribution and was met with some resistance from certain segments of the industry. These cloud-based as-a-service business models require that manufacturers and systems […]
The Buy and Build Strategy of Private Equity-Backed ACRE Examined
In this Research Note, we examine the acquisition strategy of ACRE, a Dallas, USA-based platform company backed by private equity capital. Founded to acquire, partner or invest in specialized players in the physical security industry, ACRE has become one of the largest independent providers of access control, intrusion detection, video surveillance, and communication networks in North […]
The Global Physical Security Market Shows Resilience During the Pandemic
Over 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and the global physical security market has demonstrated a remarkable degree of resilience, outperforming some other global technology markets and indeed beating our best-case scenario projection from last year. The pandemic is helping to reshape the physical security industry, turbo-charging certain emerging business models, whilst it also continues […]
Siemens Buildings Business Q4 2021 Examined
In this research note, we examine the Buildings business of Siemens, which operates within the Smart Infrastructure (SI) division, based on their Q4 press conference, Capital Markets Day presentations and building technology-related activities throughout 2021. The SI portfolio addresses the complete value chain across buildings and electrification, increasingly growing together at the grid edge. Their smart building […]
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