Data Analytics
Microsoft’s Azure Digital Twins Platform Could Disrupt Cloud Computing for the Building IoT
September 26th, 2018“We are Now Awash in Data & the New Problem is How to Make Sense of It”
September 20th, 2018Is Human Psychology Being Neglected in Our Smart Buildings and Cities?
Smart buildings and cities give great emphasis to being “human-centric” by placing occupant and resident health and safety at the top of their list of priorities. They talk about how their design goes beyond efficiency to increasing health using lighting, air quality monitoring, and a variety of other techniques but are they actually neglecting one […]
A New Layered & Probabilistic Approach To Occupancy Sensing
“Occupant presence and behavior in buildings is considered a key element towards building intelligent and pervasive environments. Yet, practical applications of energy intelligent buildings typically suffer from high sensor unreliability,” highlights a recent paper that proposes a fundamentally new way of inferring occupancy in smart buildings. The study has been able to demonstrate an additional […]
AEC Software Providers Move into Smart Building Management
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Independent Senior Research Associate at Memoori. The announcement last week that MCS Solutions is being acquired by Nemetschek Group is an indication of the trend for software providers from the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector to move beyond design and construction towards operational management in the lifecycle […]
Millennials Now Dominate the Workforce & Are Driving Tectonic Shifts in the Workplace
A new generation of workers is demanding a new type of technology to bring about a new era for the workplace. This is the conclusion of numerous surveys investigating the tectonic shifts underway for how, where and why we work. According to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data, Millennials became the […]
Audio: Will AI Video Analytics Add ‘Real Intelligence’ to Video Surveillance?
Here is the Audio Stream & Video from our 8th Free Webinar in the 2018 Smart Buildings Series. Will AI Video Analytics Add ‘Real Intelligence’ to Video Surveillance? Memoori Talked to Carter Maslan, Founder & CEO of Camio about the possibility of Video Analytics finally moving beyond what has been achieved through conventional rule based […]
Timber Skyscrapers, Smart Paving, Weather Resistant Outdoor Spaces… Google’s Smart City Project in Toronto
Since Alphabet gave birth to Google’s smart city sister company, Sidewalk Labs, we have been wondering what a “city built by Google” would look like, how it would function, and what innovative features it might include. Over the past year or so, since the announcement that Toronto has been chosen as the location for its […]
Is Putting Cyber Security in the Hands of Artificial Intelligence a Good Idea?
On a recent typical day, 2.6 million people in 232 different countries, encounter newly discovered malware – a Microsoft investigation found. These attacks were comprised of 1.7 million distinct, first-seen malware and 60% of these campaigns were finished within the hour. Today, malware is on a scale that human cyber security efforts simply cannot handle, […]
WeWork: Millennial Fad or New Era for the Workplace?
During a recent visit to one of the two WeWork coworking office buildings in Seoul’s Gangnam district, I was met with DJs setting up speakers in the meeting space we normally use. “There’s a party here later. Let’s head to the 10th floor, they have a new craft beer in the lounge up there,” I […]