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Irisity’s 2025 Restructuring: Mixed Results Drive Strategic Changes
In this Research Note, we examine Irisity AB, a Swedish provider of AI-powered video analytics solutions. This analysis highlights their financials based on the 2024 Annual Report, the acquisition of Ultinous announced in February 2024, and the subsequent reshaping of group operations to strengthen its financial future. This article updates our previous coverage of Irisity in […]
Podcast 37: Software Ate The World… What Will AI Agents Devour?
Are AI agents about to transform how our buildings work? In this conversation with smart building expert Elisa Rönkä, we explore how agentic AI could revolutionize the PropTech ecosystem. This isn’t just another AI hype video — it’s a practical discussion about how the smart building industry might navigate a huge transformation in technology. We […]
Milestone Systems Acquires brighter AI to Enhance Video Anonymization
This Research Note examines the Milestone Systems acquisition of brighter AI. The Canon-owned provider of video management software announced the purchase of the German startup on 7th April 2025 to augment its anonymization capabilities for image and video data. We highlight the strategic rationale of the acquisition and project Hafnia, Milestone Systems’ R&D program to […]
Schneider Electric Shows Strong Growth in the Data Center Infrastructure Market
In this Research Note, we examine the Data Center business of Schneider Electric, based on their 2024 Full Year Results, Presentation, and Earnings Call of 20th February 2025. We also highlight previous acquisitions and growth for this key vertical, before assessing the competitor landscape and ranking of the major building infrastructure suppliers in the data […]
Powering the AI Factory
“The next industrial revolution has begun. Companies and countries are partnering to shift the trillion-dollar traditional data centers to accelerated computing and build a new type of data center – the AI factory – to produce a new commodity: artificial intelligence,” Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, announced during his Computex keynote in June 2024. Originating […]
The Dashboard is Dead… Long Live the AI Assistant
AI assistants are becoming pervasive across many software applications. It’s easy to forget that the ChatGPT chatbot developed by OpenAI only launched less than two years ago (November 30th 2022). Since then, numerous iterations, developers, and applications have emerged, reimagining how we can interact with information systems. All of a sudden, the popular “Single Pain […]
AI Applications Spreading Across the Smart Buildings Landscape
“The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in smart buildings represents an immense opportunity to transform buildings from automated environments into truly cognitive spaces that continuously optimize themselves. However, mainstream adoption still faces hurdles around trust, complexity, and integrating AI with legacy infrastructure,” explains our latest research. Through extensive analysis, the study maps out 66 distinct […]
Recording: AI as an Interface for Commercial Buildings
Here is the recording and presentation from our live stream with Jonathan McFarlane from PlaceOS discussing how AI Large Language Models (LLMs) will change the way we interact with our buildings. The future of building system user interfaces is not dashboards! Artificial Intelligence, and specifically LLMs, will change commercial building system interactions from “point & […]