Smart buildings
Webinar: Tagging with AI to Enable Data-Driven Applications at Scale
July 27th, 2021Massive Funding Rounds Flow into the Video Surveillance Market
July 22nd, 2021
Intelligent Energy Demand Needs Intelligent Energy Supply
Buildings and the electricity grid are inextricably linked. The building sector represents up to 75% of all electricity usage and is also a disproportionately large contributor to peak energy demand, according to our recent report. The electricity grid, including power generation, must serve that demand, and to do so efficiently, it must develop a deep […]
Beyond COVID-19 to the Vast Benefits of Cleaner Workplace Air
The air quality of our indoor spaces has seen renewed interest in the past 18-months as a strong relationship emerges between the quality or flow of air and the spread of coronavirus. In the rush to get workers back into their physical workplaces, we have seen a surge of office buildings improving and reconfiguring their […]
Record Funding in Smart Buildings Sector with $5.1 Bn Invested in H1 2021
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Funding in the Smart Buildings sector is at an all-time high as H1 2021 deal values of over $5.1B surpassed the previous record by over 5% compared with H2 2018 ($4.9B) and by over 14% in H2 2020 ($4.5B). In terms of the number of transactions, Memoori […]
Podcast #6: Why Nutrition is so Important in the Workplace!
In this new Podcast series, Memoori explores the intersection between technology and commercial real estate through interesting conversations. Why Nutrition is so Important in the Workplace! In episode #6 we talk to Marie-Louise Dahl Co-Founder of Lunch.Co. We discuss the importance of good nutrition in the workplace. How food can improve cognitive ability and help […]
How Far We Really Are From AI-Enabled Smart Buildings
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a symbol of futuristic technological development since the mid-1950s but for the vast majority of that time it has been limited to the imaginations and research of academics and science fiction writers. In the last 10-years, however, our increasing computational capabilities have begun to lay the foundations for practical applications […]
Deployment of Workplace Apps Driven by Hybrid Working Models
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Inpixon, an indoor intelligence company, recently announced that its smart office app, acquired in the recent CXApp acquisition, had been selected by a major European-based commercial and retail banking firm with more than 50,000 employees for implementation across more than 75 locations. This deployment supports the […]
From the Sidewalk of the City to the Sidewalk of the Building
The pandemic has been incredibly disruptive to the real estate sector, and perhaps the biggest cancellation of the COVID-19 era so far is Google’s Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto. The Quayside redevelopment project was still in planning phases and held back by a resolute citizen movement that focused on issues of data privacy and corporate […]
Citizens Remain the Seoul of the City in South Korea
The recent and tragic building collapse in Surfside, Miami, is just one of a number of high-profile building-related catastrophes we have seen in recent years. From the 23-story Grenfell Tower fire in London, UK, in 2017 to the partial collapse of a 15-story building in Houston, Texas, in 2020, to a spate of similar tragedies […]
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