Cyber Security
Podcast #8: 25 Years of Internet of Things Innovation!
November 4th, 2021Schneider Electric Ventures Lead Funding in the Smart Buildings Space
October 25th, 2021Are Workplaces the Gateway Smart Environment?
What is the ultimate goal of smart technology? Is it to maximize productivity in workplaces? Is it to achieve net-zero energy performance? Is it to accurately predict human behavior? Is it to create digital urban utopias? Or, is it simply to make life better for users? There may be no right answer but all of […]
“Cybersecurity is a Shared Responsibility. We are All in this Together”
Cybercrime is up 600% during the COVID-19 pandemic. That staggering statistic from a 2021 PurpleSec report includes all forms of cybercrime, from theft or embezzlement to data hacking and destruction. The rise of cybercrime is expected to cost companies around the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, growing from just $3 trillion in 2015. This rapid increase […]
Has Smart Home Technology Lost Its Way?
Over the last 18-months, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, commercial buildings have largely been empty and residential buildings have never seen such high occupancy during the day. Unsurprisingly, home improvement has been high on the agenda for people around the world, especially in the affluent developed nations that were hit hard by the virus […]
Does Technology Make Buildings More or Less Resilient?
Resilience is the ability to overcome future challenges, both the expected and the unexpected. The term has been used increasingly in the buildings industry in recent years, alongside other terms such as sustainability and continuity. However, while sustainability and continuity are focused on survival, the true goal of resilience is to thrive despite challenges. Resilience […]
Record Funding in Smart Buildings Sector with $5.1 Bn Invested in H1 2021
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Funding in the Smart Buildings sector is at an all-time high as H1 2021 deal values of over $5.1B surpassed the previous record by over 5% compared with H2 2018 ($4.9B) and by over 14% in H2 2020 ($4.5B). In terms of the number of transactions, Memoori […]
How Long Can We Blame Our Cybersecurity Failures On Rapid Proliferation of Technology?
We know by now that connected devices create a cybersecurity risk, yet we continue to connect devices. Big IoT hacks are widely reported, but we still demand smart buildings. Survey after survey shows that executives see cyberattacks as the biggest issue for the IoT, yet the same surveys show that the vast majority of companies […]
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, […]
The Critical Factors That Will Deliver Physical Security Growth to 2025
In this article we discuss the 6 most important factors that will shape the future of the Physical Security industry through the next 5 years, which will require fundamental changes to business strategies. 1. The gap between the major suppliers of Video Surveillance equipment and the many hundreds of smaller suppliers gets wider every year […]