Smart Cities
The Evolution of BIoT… Will it be Top Down or Bottom Up?
February 22nd, 2016Smarter Sensors will mean Smarter & Faster Decisions
February 12th, 2016
Sensors, Sensors, Everywhere…
Forget about costs and practicalities for a minute, and consider what would the world be like if we had environmental sensors everywhere? When taking the Internet of Things (IoT) concept to its greatest extent, sensors could link to our climate control systems, our transport systems, our healthcare systems – adapting to our preferences, improving our […]

Interoperability the key to Smart City development in Europe
We talk about smart cities a lot, but mainly we talk about their potential; for sustainability, for efficiency, for health, for safety, for innovation. In order to move past the hype and realise that potential, the sector needs to be less fragmented and more focused on interoperability, say several European leaders who will be hosting […]

Smart Cities can be the Platform for All Smart Things
We will have smart cities before we have smart homes, that is the view of AT&T as they launched their Smart Cities Framework alongside international technology show CES in Las Vegas earlier this month. The telecom giant announced that it is partnering with a who’s who of Big Data (Cisco, Deloitte, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Intel, […]

Zigbee / EnOcean Agreement boosts IoT for Smart Buildings and Cities
With 2016 being touted as the Year of IoT, when connectivity technology will take a major step towards what seems an inevitable future where all manner of “things” will be connected. However, if we are to take significant steps forward with the Internet of Things, the continuing debate on IoT standards needs to advance. A […]

All Forecasts Predicting a Stellar Year for the Internet of Things
Gartner forecasts that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30% from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. Meaning 5.5 million new things will be connected every day this year. Multiple sectors are being touted as the “driving force” behind the anticipated rapid growth of the Internet of […]

Smart Cities and Buildings: The Reaction From COP21
“History will remember this day,” said Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, moments after a green, leaf-shaped gavel was dropped on the most ambitious, far-reaching deal on addressing climate change that the world has ever seen – United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21). Perhaps the event’s most encouraging element was the large number […]

Should India Build Smart Cities?
India is pushing ahead with plans to build 100 Smart Cities in an effort to drive development and improve living standards across the emerging nation. However, last month’s devastating flooding in Chennai has raised an intriguing debate; Should nations who are largely developing, be focusing on smart development in cities, rather than creating basic protection […]
The Security Industry Promises Sustained Growth to 2020 but Major Differences Exist Across Sectors & Regions
Memoori’s new 2015 annual report on Physical Security shows that despite all the global economic uncertainty of the last 8 years the industry has grown at a CAGR of 7.82% since 2010. Our estimated total value of world production of Physical Security products at factory gate prices in 2015 was $27.2 billion. We forecast that […]