Smart Cities
Hurricane Irma Set To Provide Stern Test For Florida’s Smart Grid
September 8th, 2017Study Finds That Exxon Mislead the public on Climate Change, Concerning the Smart Tech Sector
August 31st, 2017Smart Workplace Tech Allows Small & Medium Sized Commercial Real Estate To Thrive
Smart workplace technology is often associated with the biggest commercial buildings, housing the most high profile organizations – epitomized by buildings like The Edge in Amsterdam. While many managers of small to medium sized commercial real estate (CRE) discount smart technology adoption all together, assuming they do not have the capital or scale to achieve […]
Trusted Identities Are An Essential Part Of The Access Control Evolution, But Who Governs Privacy?
“It’s not about tracking or monitoring people, it’s about keeping the bad people out and preventing insider attacks with the right risk management,” says Serra Luck, HID Global’s VP End User and Consultant Business – Physical Access Control Solutions, on the issue of privacy in our increasingly connected built environment. While this may sound good […]
The Eclipse Beats Solar Power But Is Tackled By Energy Storage
“If the eclipse of the sun is complete it will be dark forever. The demons of darkness will come down. They will eat men!,” reads the The Florentine Codex, an ethnographic study of 16th-century Aztecs in Mexico, which included their interpretation of solar eclipses. In the modern age we, for the most part, have a […]
“The Internet of Things Requires An Entirely Different Approach To Security”
There seems little doubt about it anymore; the Internet of Things (IoT) age is upon us. Predictions for IoT growth and adoption, from the world’s biggest economic analysis agencies, range from huge to incredibly huge. Yet we are still to agree on a suitable formula to make the IoT secure from cyber attack, and if […]
Can We Find The Balance Between Smart Grid Data And Consumer Privacy?
So smart meters send data on electricity consumption to smart grids enabled with demand response that balance everything to make the most of renewable energy and empower consumers with solar panels to sell excess electricity back to the grid. Sounds wonderful but what about privacy? “The two types of data collected by smart grid technologies […]
“All The Stuff We Are Doing Is Obsolete. It Doesn’t Make Sense To Build Smart Cities Like This”
“All of the stuff we are doing is obsolete. It doesn’t make sense to build a world like this. We are creating more inequality, we are going to have more tension, we are going to use technology for the wrong stuff and people will remain poor and few will become so rich,” states Sam Pitroda, […]
“Companies Don’t Disrupt, Cities Don’t Disrupt, People Disrupt” – The Real Power Of The Smart City
For years Memoori has been promoting the benefits of human-focused smart cities in opposition to those who think smart cities are just about implementing technology and digital infrastructure. We have not been alone in this mindset but we’ve recently seen a big step for the approach when multiple political and technology leaders at the Smart […]
Physical Security Business Needs Open Systems & Structural Changes to Deliver Full Potential of Integration
Integration between all three branches of the Physical Security business is now one of the main drivers for growth in demand from building operators and owners. However its full potential is being limited by a lack of initiative from manufacturers and system installers to adopt open communication standards that customers need if they are not […]