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Cisco Spaces Platform Examined 2024
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November 24th, 2022Recording: Overcoming Tech Obsolescence in Smart Buildings
Here is the Video Recording from our 2nd Free Webinar of the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. Overcoming Tech Obsolescence in Smart Buildings. Memoori was joined by Mike Hook from building transformation specialists, LMG and building technology consultant, Ray D’Urso. We discussed how the lifespan of technologies amidst a rapidly changing landscape of user requirements and […]
LoRaWAN Lays the Foundation for the IoT to Reach its Potential
The Internet of Things enables smart cities, smart buildings, and related connected technologies but what will enable the Internet of Things as it grows out of its cellular data shell? GSM, LTE, and WiFi are great but not set up to handle the continuous high volumes of data we should expect as the number of […]
IEEE Release of 802.3bt Provides PoE Boost to Smart Buildings
The latest iteration of IEEE 802 standard promises to provide more Power over Ethernet (PoE) than ever before. Simultaneously, the established devices are getting increasingly efficient and new low-power devices are entering the market every day. This convergence is enabling a host of new devices to be powered via ethernet cables, giving a huge boost […]
The IoT-Ready Alliance Enables Future-Proof Buildings with its First Interface Specification
One year after its establishment, the IoT-Ready Alliance has released its first specification – The IoT-Ready Interface Specification V1.0. The landmark specification defines a socket that allows any type of Internet of Things (IoT) sensor or control module to connect seamlessly to a luminaire or other building system. While it may sound simple, this marks […]
Three Years On & Three Years Away: LiFi is on Track
In a May 2015 interview with Memoori, we asked Professor Harald Haas – the man who coined the term LiFi and co-founder of pureLiFi – where he sees the technology in three to five years. He responded: “In three to five years we would have seen the deployment of LiFi for specific applications, our major […]
Google Plans To “Build An Entire City From The Internet Up”
Earlier this month we covered Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation wing of Google’s parent company Alphabet. A company, which has as yet done relatively little but, promises to change the very way we live and work. While Sidewalk Labs plans are still somewhat shrouded in mystery, what we do know lets the imagination flow. Announcing the […]
Nest Goes Open Source With Its Thread Networking Protocol
Nest is going open source. The Alphabet-Google smart home company has just confirmed that it is rolling out ‘OpenThread’, an open source reference code implementation of the Thread networking protocol created in 2014. Last Wednesday, Nest published the source code for its implementation of the new OpenThread protocol on Github under a three-clause BSD license, […]
Google’s Sidewalk Labs Steps Closer to Smart City Vision
Google wants to build entire cities. Well not Google but Alphabet, Google’s parent company, through their smart city spin-off Sidewalk Labs. Sidewalk Labs describes itself as “an urban innovation company devoted to improving city life for residents, businesses and city governments, in particular by developing and incubating civic technologies”. Now, one year after its establishment, […]