Video Surveillance
Exploring Motorola’s Acquisition of Ava Security & 2021 Financials
March 4th, 2022The Rise of Open Physical Security Interoperability
February 15th, 2022
The Security of Supply & Supply of Security
Despite almost two years of challenges and uncertainty posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the global physical security market has demonstrated a remarkable degree of resilience. The pandemic is reshaping the industry, turbo-charging certain emerging business models, whilst it also continues to make our societies safer; not just from the pandemic but also from crime and […]
Customers Find Security in the Cloud During COVID
There has been a steady transition towards cloud-based as-a-service business models for smart building services over the past decade. This gradual shift began to challenge long-established business models, relationships, and channels of distribution and was met with some resistance from certain segments of the industry. These cloud-based as-a-service business models require that manufacturers and systems […]
A Real Estate Crisis in the World’s Biggest Potential Smart Building Market
China’s real estate sector is in crisis. In an effort to curb excessive borrowing by property developers and control runaway real estate price increases, the Chinese government began to crack down on developer debt in 2020. The market then suffered a downturn in 2021 due to the increased financial restrictions, while commercial sales and investment […]
Recording: Open Interfaces for Smart Buildings with ONVIF
Here is the Video Recording from our 1st Free Webinar of the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. Don’t forget you can now Subscribe to ALL our Webinars on YouTube! Open Interfaces for Smart Buildings with ONVIF. Memoori was joined by Leo Levit, ONVIF Steering Committee Chairman for the 1st Webinar in our 2022 Smart Building Series. […]
Webinar: Open Interfaces for Smart Buildings with ONVIF
** Recording of this Webinar can now be found HERE ** Please join us on Tuesday 18th January at 1700 CET | 1600 GMT | 1100 EDT | 0800 PDT for our 1st FREE Webinar in the 2022 Smart Buildings Series. Open Interfaces for Smart Buildings with ONVIF. Memoori will be joined by Leo Levit, ONVIF Steering […]
Hikvision Spinning Off Smart Home & Robotics Businesses
Chinese video surveillance Giant Hikvision (Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.) will spin-off Smart Home business Ezviz (Hangzhou EZVIZ Network Co., Ltd.), details of which were announced in the IPO prospectus they published in December. It states that they aim to raise RMB 3.739 billion (USD 588.3 million) by listing Ezviz on the Science and […]
Blurring the Lines Between Physical Security & Smart Building Technology
The physical security industry has changed extensively in the past 20-years as buildings got smarter and the threat landscape developed. Over those two decades we have seen the dominance of large conglomerates erode, innovative startups grow, and the rise of China as the undoubted world leader in key physical security segments. Then, over the past […]
The Buy and Build Strategy of Private Equity-Backed ACRE Examined
In this Research Note, we examine the acquisition strategy of ACRE, a Dallas, USA-based platform company backed by private equity capital. Founded to acquire, partner or invest in specialized players in the physical security industry, ACRE has become one of the largest independent providers of access control, intrusion detection, video surveillance, and communication networks in North […]
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