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Investment in Smart Glass Startups Accelerates Building Integrated Photovoltaic Tech
Investment in Smart Glass Startups are Accelerating the Adoption of Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Technology.
A History of Bad Office Lighting Must Make Way for a Human-Centric Future
“Every office I’ve ever worked in has had lighting that’s made me feel varying degrees of insane and depressed. To be clear, I’m not speaking specifically about the New York Magazine office lighting — our combo of LED overhead and natural light is not uniquely bad, but it is definitely bad in the way that […]
Emerging Standards & Falling Costs Could Drive Widespread HCL Adoption
Human-Centric Lighting (HCL) has been part of the smart building discussion for some years now but its implementation has so far been limited to only the most advanced facilities. While the biological benefits of the technology are proven, the technical and financial elements required for the widespread implementation of HCL in a broad spectrum of […]
COVID Lights the Path to Workplace Consolidation & Smarter Buildings
COVID-19 has focused the world’s attention on health, this is especially true for commercial buildings that have seen significantly reduced, and often zero, occupancy for much of the past year. Cleaning and contactless technologies have taken center stage in the fight against virus transmission to comply with new regulations and encourage workers back to the […]
Contract Security Services or ‘Security as a Service’?
Buyers of Access Control and Video Surveillance Services now have the choice of using Contract Security Service companies or the new breed of ACaaS & VSaaS suppliers now coming from the physical security manufacturing business, with many looking to sell direct to the end user. Both are delivering sophisticated services that are reducing the total […]
Printable Sensors Could Trigger Next Wave of Innovation in the Built Environment
Sensors are one of the fundamental elements of smart buildings. They provide the foundation of data collection that allows all Internet of Things (IoT) applications to function. The falling cost and reduced size of sensors has been a significant market driver. Now a rapidly maturing type of sensor offers a revolutionary drop in both size […]
Building Technology Startups Gain a Foothold in Commercial Real Estate Deployments
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Smart building startups are gaining a foothold in the commercial real estate sector as indicated by the Increasing deployment of innovative building technologies developed by new entrants. Building owners and operators are adopting AI and IoT building systems to reduce their carbon footprint, […]
The Smart Building Industry Begins to See Cleaning in a New Light
Few in-building technologies have experienced a more significant boost from the COVID-19 pandemic than UV-C light disinfection. The sanitation solution has been used for more than 40 years in disinfecting drinking water, wastewater, ventilated air, and pharmaceutical products, against a range of human pathogens. This year’s on-going global health crisis, however, has focused extra hype […]
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