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Global Investment in Smart Building Technology Exceeds $16.5Bn since 2017
January 28th, 2020How Long will the Video Surveillance “Great Wall of China” Hold?
January 22nd, 2020
Heavily Funded Chinese AI Unicorns Target Smart Cities, Public Security & Building Management
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. China has been investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a national bid to become a world leader in the technology. A government plan calls for the country to be at the forefront of AI research by 2030. Billions of dollars are being […]

Continued Strong Growth Predicted for Russia’s Security & Fire Safety Markets
Russia represents a unique market in the world. A private and open market in some ways and very state dominated in others. The world’s biggest country by land area and one of the least densely populated with just eight people per km². Russia is both an aging superpower and an emerging market. A business landscape […]

AI Video Analytics Could Dominate Physical Security Investment to 2023
The general trend for venture capital investment in the Physical Security Business has been one of decline since 2014, when it invested over $300m in 12 transactions. In 2017 we identified 11 transactions by venture capital companies investing $121.9m into physical security companies; Which was a significant gain on 2016 when we identified 9 transactions […]

Facing the Urgent Challenge of Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Recently, Stanford Researchers Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang trained a machine powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to detect sexual orientation of people to an accuracy of 81%, simply by scanning photos of faces. Kosinski and Wang only created the algorithm to highlight the potential and potential dangers of AI; however, in a world where the […]