Data Analytics
Schneider Electric Buildings Business 2022 Examined
March 7th, 2023#Podcast 18: Using ChatGPT to Augment the User Experience
March 6th, 2023
#Podcast 17: What can the Workplace Learn from Retail Experience?
In our Podcast series “Sh*t You Wish Your Building Did!”, Memoori explores the intersection between technology and commercial real estate through interesting conversations. What can the Workplace Learn from Retail Experience? Some companies are finding it hard to encourage people back to the Office after the pandemic. They know that they need to offer their employees a […]

Recording: What Customers REALLY Want from a Smart Building!
Here is the Video Recording from our 1st Free Webinar of the 2022 Smart Building Series. Don’t forget you can now Subscribe to ALL our Webinars & Podcasts on YouTube! Memoori was joined by Michael Grant from Metrikus to Discuss Why the Smart Building IoT Landscape is Confusing for Customers and How the Market needs to Mature. As debt becomes more expensive […]

Mapping the Strategic Direction of CBRE Global Workplace Solutions
This Research Note examines the emerging strategic priorities of CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) in the smart commercial buildings space. We have mapped M&A, divestments, strategic partnerships and investment activity to ascertain the growth ambitions of the business, by categorizing the various business relationships by technology and investment type over a 3-year period between January 2020 and November 2022. […]

Mapping View Inc.’s Smart Building Strategy
View is one of the most well-known brands in the area of dynamic glass and smart windows, which are becoming an increasingly common element in smart buildings. As a start-up, View rose to unicorn status in 2018 with support from a range of top investment funds and it was one of the first smart building […]

Meteoviva Sustainable Buildings Business Examined
In this Research Note, we examine MeteoViva GmbH, the German provider of a predictive building control system and Sustainable Buildings-as-a-Service offering. This analysis covers the firm’s development, funding, recent as-a-Service deployment and strategic partnerships. The private company has undisclosed external investors, one of whom has backed the firm since the launch of its first product. […]

The Smart Building is Not a Destination, It’s a Journey
The vision of smart buildings, as presented by the media and marketing departments, depicts a technological utopia with broad sensory capabilities, intuitive human-centric applications, and advanced intelligence. This vision might be technically possible, but currently even the path to a “semi smart building” is fraught with challenges that make technical development difficult. Challenges which are […]

View Smart Buildings Business and Financials Examined
In this Research Note, we examine View Inc. (NASDAQ: VIEW), a Silicon Valley-based smart window company founded in 2006. This analysis is based on their 2021 financial results, investor presentations, M&A and their smart buildings strategy. View, one of the most heavily funded firms in the smart buildings space, acquired unicorn status in November 2018 when it raised a $1.1 billion Series […]

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 […]