Facial Recognition
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Exploring The SALTO Group Business and M&A Strategy
In this Research Note, we examine the SALTO Group business, based on their recent activities, M&A strategy and our analysis of their market positioning. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Oiartzun, Spain, SALTO Group is a manufacturer of electronic locks and access control solutions. The Group consists of several companies including Salto Systems, Gantner, Conlan, danalock, Clay, and […]
Transforming Sin City with a Digital Twin
The US city of Las Vegas has become the second urban area to join Cityzenith’s Clean Cities – Clean Future initiative – a campaign aimed at helping most polluted urban centres become carbon neutral, by donating the company’s Digital Twin platform SmartWorldPro2 to targeted cities, one at a time. The announcement last week outlined a significant […]
Megvii Announces $935M IPO as China’s AI Dragons Prepare to Fly
“As a society, we have experienced three distinct industrial revolutions: steam power, electricity, and information technology. I believe artificial intelligence (AI) is the engine fueling the fourth industrial revolution globally, digitizing and automating everywhere,” says Kai-Fu Lee, chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and author of ‘AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future’. “China is at the […]
The Post-COVID Urban Agenda: Cities Should Be Smart but MUST Be Fair
Some of the most symbolic images of the past year have been of empty city centers. Deserted images Times Square, Covent Garden, Champs-Élysées, and Shibuya commercial district would have been impossible to capture before the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders that COVID-19 brought about. Our cities have felt the greatest impact of the pandemic and this […]
COVID Safety & Compliance Becomes Driving Force for Adoption of Smart Buildings
Every crisis is different, affecting specific parts of society and specific geographic areas. The COVID-19 pandemic is as global as crises get, but more specifically is has had its greatest impact on our communal indoor environments. Our buildings were the hubs of commercial and social activity across the world before the pandemic but over the […]
Progress Vs Privacy – A Tale of Smart City Development in China
The underlying premise of smart technology is that with enough data you can predict anything. Our smart buildings and cities are filled with sensors to gather as much information as possible in order to provide analysis that can fix problems, improve environments, and even avoid issues before they happen. The only real debate around this […]
Investors Flock to Smart “Neighborhood Watch” Video Surveillance Startup
In 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her apartment in Queens, New York, while a reported 38 people saw or heard the attack, none of them called the police or tried to help her. This was the incident that inspired the first Neighborhood Watch scheme, a movement that spread across the US in the […]
Webinar: Conferencing Devices – The Occupancy Analytics Tool You Didn’t Know You Had!
** The Recording of this Webinar can now be found HERE ** Please Join us on Wednesday 21st October 1600 CET | 1000 EDT | 1500 BST for our 8th FREE Webinar in the 2020 Smart Buildings Series. Conferencing Devices: The Occupancy Analytics Tool You Didn’t Know You Had!. Memoori is joined by Richard Bayes, […]