Physical Security
Motorola Solutions Acquires Pelco for $110M in Cash, Continuing Video Investment Spree
August 4th, 2020Short Term Prospects for Physical Security Depend Upon Containing COVID19
July 6th, 2020
The Increasingly Important Role of Body Worn Cameras in Law Enforcement
The use of body worn cameras has been an ongoing topic of discussion in global law enforcement since at least the mid-2000’s. Whilst adoption of the technology has been mixed since then, in this article we examine the market potential and evidence for and against their use. The introduction of body worn cameras is intended […]
Radar Finds Solutions to Fighting Off COVID-19 in Smart Buildings
The Intruder Alarm and Perimeter Protection sector has over the last decade become very familiar with using radar technology to detect intruders trying to break through perimeter fences. It is now being used within smart buildings to support organisations as they explore options for moving staff safely back into their buildings. The solutions focus on […]
COVID-19 has Created a Multitude of Challenges & New Solutions in Physical Security
During the last 4 months Covid-19 has created an economic tsunami across the world, and in its wake has caused a reduction in demand for physical security products during the first 4 months of 2020. Memoori’s annual world report on the Physical Security Business has over the last 12 years shown that only in 2 […]
Decline in Q1 VC Investment in Smart Buildings Offset by Increase in Transaction Values
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. The number of Q1-2020 funding rounds in the smart buildings space declined 27%, but there was an increase of 84% in transaction values compared to Q4-2019. Venture capital financing is undoubtedly being impacted by COVID-19 but it is too early to say by […]
Is COVID-19 putting the Brakes on 5G Smart City Deployments?
Over the past 6 months there has been research claiming that there will be a dramatic explosion of video data, predicting that it could account for 15.1 zettabytes of data annually, which would be more than any other IoT application. This influx in data, as well as the growing adoption of video analytics and AI, […]
Will COVID-19 Drive Physical Security Consolidation Through M&A?
Our world annual report on the Physical Security business has charted M&A activity since 2008. Over the last few months we have published a few articles analysing the various outcomes that COVID-19 has caused the business during the first quarter of 2020. In particular we have looked at areas of the business that by 2021 […]
Building Occupancy Data Reveals the Extent of the US Lockdown
The US now has the highest number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities anywhere in the world and most States are implementing strict lockdown measures to varying degrees. Fascinatingly, some of the best data we have on who and when people actually started isolating, is building occupancy data from smart buildings. The following graphic, by access […]
Coping with COVID-19: Potential Impact on the Physical Security Industry?
The world is getting used to a new ‘C-word’, COVID-19. Less than a quarter of the way through 2020 and the global pandemic already has us evoking ‘fond’ memories of a simpler time in 2019; When we only had catastrophic bushfires and Climate Change to contend with. We are still in the beginning phase of […]
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