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May 22nd, 2017
Strategic Alliances Focusing on the Building Internet of Things Gain Prominence
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. Partnerships focusing on IoT solutions in buildings have gained prominence in the past year. We have tracked over 30 alliances announced since January 2016 between the main building technology incumbents, IT partners and specialised IoT platform providers. This excludes strategic investments, minority stakes, and […]

Building Technology Suppliers Strengthen Digital Innovation through Accelerator and Incubation Hubs
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. The announcement by UTC on 20 March 2017 of a $300 million investment in a Digital Accelerator based in Brooklyn, New York is another example of the trend by building technology suppliers to step up their digital innovation efforts. The accelerator will serve as […]

The Energy Sector Continues to Invest in Smart Building to Smart Grid Interface Software
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. Utilities are continuing to strengthen their decentralized energy capabilities as part of their ambition to expand their business models beyond the meter and become complete solution providers for energy management. In a previous article on Memoori titled “Utilities Invest in Energy Software & Services […]
The Transformation of the Building Performance Software Business
The building performance software industry has at least 350 established suppliers delivering across 6 main different market segments that can be further sub-divided into 16 segments. These segments overlap and cause confusion when the building operators are evaluating how they meet their value propositions. This is particularly critical now that the major real estate owners […]

DOE’s JUMP Initiative Hopes To Give Smart Buildings Tech A Boost
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) wants ideas on how to make smart buildings smarter and it’s using crowdsourcing to get them. Through a program called JUMP, innovative thinkers in the area of energy efficient building technologies are rewarded with idea development and prize money, and the first JUMP winners were announced in May […]
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, […]

New York Initiative Forges Virtual Power Plant Partnership
This summer, Con Edison and SunPower Corp. will partner on a $15 million pilot program to offer solar power systems with battery storage to more than 300 New York homeowners. The aggregation of hundreds of homes with solar power and battery storage will provide the utility with a cost-effective and innovative virtual power plant, providing […]
The Combined Market for Energy Software in Smart Buildings Will Rise to Nearly $10Bn by 2020
Our new research report shows that the markets for Enterprise Energy Management, BECS Supervisory Software and Smart Building to Smart Grid Interface Software will rise to nearly $10Bn by 2020; with related software on the Smart Grid side growing at a healthy 12% CAGR to nearly $2bn by 2020. The Harmonization of the Smart Grid […]