Internet of Things
Every Bit of Data Needs a Bit of Energy – The Data-Driven Environmental Cost
August 26th, 2019A Sound Smart Building? Hearables in the Built Environment
August 22nd, 2019
Smart Street Lighting “the Catalyst for the Smart City Network”
The lakeside city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil has followed an increasingly well-trodden path by seeking out Internet of Things (IoT) technology to solve problems. Like many cities before them, Belo Horizonte has chosen to begin their smart journey with street lighting. The network of lights that illuminate roads, sidewalks, and public spaces across all […]
Audio: Why is the Brick Schema a Game Changer for Smart Buildings?
Here are the Audio Stream & Video from our 7th Free Webinar of the 2019 Smart Buildings Series. Why Is the Brick Schema A Game Changer For Smart Buildings? Memoori is joined by Founder Members of the Brick Open Schema Project: Gabe Fierro, University of California, Berkley, Jason Koh, University of California, San Diego; and […]
“It’s a Data Center with a Glass Roof” – Cannabis Pushes the Boundaries of Smart Buildings
The indoor horticultural industry is growing. Fueled by the Internet of Things (IoT), smart greenhouses are evolving to be more productive, more energy-efficient, and more responsive to the plants at the center of their operations. At the forefront of this new era of horticultural smart buildings is the rapidly emerging cannabis industry, where a new […]
Energy Harvesting: Scalable Renewable Energy for the IoT
“In the long term, battery technology will not be able to meet the demand being created by the expansion of internet of things (IoT) applications,” James Myers, director of devices and circuits at UK chipmaker Arm’s research and development division. The firm estimates that if each of the trillion or so wireless sensor nodes that […]
J2’s Release of FIN 5 Marks A Year in the Siemens Building Tech Family
Over six days in May 2018, German conglomerate Siemens made its smart building intentions clear. On the 17th, Siemens announced its acquisition of Los Angeles based J2 Innovations, a software framework provider for building automation and IoT technologies. Six days later, on May 23rd, the European manufacturing giant announced the acquisition of California-based IoT-enabled smart […]
The Seven Attributes Defining Smart Buildings
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Independent Senior Research Associate at Memoori. What Makes a Building Smart? This has been an ongoing debate in many articles and conference presentations over the years, as it means so many different things to different people; And it is not easy to articulate one universal definition which encompasses […]
The Future of Digital Technology in Cities, According to the Urban Land Institute
“The adoption of digital technologies will change the face of cities as surely as any previous technology, whether the railway, the car or the skyscraper,” states a recent report from the Urban Land Institute (ULI). “However, rather than one huge ‘meteor strike’ impact, digital will create many individual heterogeneous changes, clustered into trends that, collectively, […]
Arm Holdings Predicts an Era of “Co-opetition” Between Lighting & IT Firms
“The ceiling has long been the domain of the light fixture but IoT savvy lighting firms realized that it is also the ideal place from which to sense an environment. However, by transforming their lighting services into an IoT offering, lighting firms have entered the unfamiliar world of IT and into in direct competition with […]
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