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Drones Disrupting Security: How They Fit into the 2025 Security Landscape
Security drones are no longer a novelty. Across data centers, corporate campuses, solar farms, and high-value commercial properties, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are transitioning from occasional surveillance tools to integrated, autonomous assets embedded within enterprise security operations. What began as manual flyovers for perimeter checks has evolved into sophisticated workflows where drones launch automatically in […]
Kieback&Peter’s 2025 Minority Investment from Trane Strengthens their European Position
This Research Note examines the recent announcement by Trane Technologies to acquire a minority stake in Kieback&Peter. We highlight the transaction details, the target firm profile, and financials before assessing the strategic rationale of the acquisition. Transaction Details On 22nd October 2025, Trane Technologies announced a definitive agreement with Kieback&Peter Group (K&P), a European leader in […]
Salto Systems Accelerates Beyond Access Control: 4 Strategic Investments
In this Research Note, we examine the Salto Systems business, based on their 2024 revenues and milestones, product innovation and strategic minority investments in 2024 and 2025. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Oiartzun, Spain, Salto Systems is one of the market leaders in electronic locking and access control solutions across a broad range of […]
Siemens Advances Net-Zero Strategy: 3 UK Universities Deploy Smart Building Tech
In this Research Note, we examine Siemens solutions portfolio for smart campuses and highlight three major deployments of decarbonization technologies at UK university campuses in London, Birmingham, and Kent. Siemens Buildings business in the UK has implemented a range of solutions including energy audits, lighting replacement, building management system upgrades, solar energy & heat pump […]
Geopolitics and Trade Barriers Are Reshaping the Video Surveillance Market
The global video surveillance market is in a new era. Where technology once flowed freely across borders, driven purely by cost and innovation, today’s vendors navigate a fractured landscape carved by geopolitics fault lines. Trade restrictions, procurement mandates, and diverging national security frameworks are no longer peripheral concerns; they are core business drivers reshaping where […]
Verisure 2025 IPO: Understanding the Shift in Professional Security Services
In this Research Note, we examine Verisure, the monitored security services firm that has recently completed its IPO. We highlight the transaction details, explore the business, based on its IPO prospectus and recent company presentations, before commenting on their strategic acquisitions in the self-monitored and professionally monitored security markets. Transaction Details Verisure completed its IPO […]
Honeywell’s 2026 Automation Spin-Off: Brilliant Strategy or Risky Complex Move?
This Research Note examines Honeywell’s Automation & Control Solutions (ACS) businesses from 10 years ago, and highlights its evolution and major organizational changes since then, resulting in the forthcoming spin-off into an Automation public company. We compare and assess the new organization, review its success factors and ongoing challenges, before providing our view on the […]
Neeve’s Edge-Cloud Platform: Key Metrics & Growth 2025
This Research Note examines Neeve, the US startup offering an edge-cloud platform designed to enhance smart building operations by integrating operational technology (OT) systems into secure, connected environments. We highlight its founding as IoTium, before exploring its current offering, deployments, funding and partners, concluding with our view of the business. Neeve Profile Founded in 2015 […]
