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Asia-Pacific Continues to Lead the Building Internet of Things Market Through to 2022
June 29th, 2018Acquisitions in the European Commercial Fire Detection Systems Market
January 16th, 2018
What do the Axis Communications Financial Results tell us about the State of Global Video Surveillance?
Axis Communications recently reported a very positive Q1 2017 performance with net sales increasing by 29% and profit increasing by 53% with operating margin growing to 11.6%. Of course “one swallow does not make a summer” but Axis sales in two of their three main regions, the Americas and Asia have shown consistent growth since […]
Direct New Investment in the Physical Security Industry Fell in 2016
Our recent Report on the Physical Security industry identified 9 transactions by venture capital and notable security companies investing some $96.3m into physical security companies. Venture Capitalists have invested an average of $275m per annum in the physical security industry over the previous 4 years, so it’s rather disappointing to see it fall to $96 […]
Europe Lags Behind Asia in the Industrial Internet of Things Race
Asia has long led the global manufacturing race. Populous nations like China have relied on an abundance of cheap labor to drive growth in their manufacturing sector. However, with the rise of the industrial internet of things (IIoT) an opportunity has arisen for Europe’s factories to gain a competitive advantage over their Asian cousins. It […]
Wide Ranging Applications Bring About Global Growth in the Building Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a global phenomenon. Aspiring cities on every continent are striving to become “smart”, full of intelligent buildings, connected by an advanced grid all, under the umbrella of the IoT movement. This emerging urban intelligence is optimising energy use, increasing safety and security, it’s even making us more healthy and […]
Agility Beats Power In The Fight For Smart City Supremacy
Despite Brexit, the refuge crisis, increased terrorism, and economic strife in Greece, Europe is still better positioned to win supremacy in smart city innovation according to several experts in the field. Like two heavyweights before a title fight, the US talks a big talk and has more muscle to back it up but Europe has […]
Is Brexit All Bad News For UK Tech Sector?
Britain has not left Europe, despite some of the headlines that seem to suggest some sort of tectonic shift. Britain has voted to leave the European Union (EU) but will continue to be a major European economy, like other non-EU European nations such as Norway or Switzerland, whose voters rejected becoming part of the union. […]
Regulation could provide Vehicle for Growth of Energy Software in Europe
US suppliers currently dominate the Enterprise Energy Management Software (EEMS) market, according to our Recent Report. In this article we speculate on what this means to the future of this growing industry sector. EEMS is defined as IT based software and services which are used to monitor, manage, control and report on building energy performance, […]
The Rush to Smart Cities could Cause more Problems than it Solves
Every forward thinking city in the world seems to want to be a “smart city”. An urban utopia where everything is connected, works as efficiently as possible and provides a higher quality of life for its citizens. Around the world, smart cities are emerging by actively experimenting with new information and communication technologies. The idea […]
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