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April 18th, 2023
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Lighting

Silvair’s Lighting-based Building Intelligence Business Examined

October 13th, 2022
Smart Buildings

Johnson Controls Invests in Artisight, an IoT Platform Provider for Smart Hospitals

JCI Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Johnson Controls, led a $2 million investment in Artisight on 30th April 2022, according to PitchBook. Based in Glenview, Illinois, USA, formerly known as Whiteboard Coordinator, Artisight positions itself as a provider of “the operating system for smart hospitals”. The Artisight name reflects the company’s goal of providing a digital sixth sense — […]

Smart Cities

Building Automation Giants Step Up Their Cybersecurity Game

The pressure is growing on commercial buildings to become smarter. The continuing fight against climate change is driving stronger regulation on energy efficiency, demanding greener building systems governed by data from broad sensor networks. The gradual return to work after COVID lockdowns demand higher health and safety standards, which also drives buildings toward smart technology. […]

Lighting

The Smart Building Industry Begins to See Cleaning in a New Light

Few in-building technologies have experienced a more significant boost from the COVID-19 pandemic than UV-C light disinfection. The sanitation solution has been used for more than 40 years in disinfecting drinking water, wastewater, ventilated air, and pharmaceutical products, against a range of human pathogens. This year’s on-going global health crisis, however, has focused extra hype […]

Smart Cities

6 European PropTech Startups Accelerated by E.ON

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. In Europe, the energy sector is leading the way in developing accelerator programs to strengthen their efforts in supporting business ideas as part of their increased focus on digitization, decentralization and decarbonization of energy. Two leading German energy companies, E.ON and Innogy have […]

Security

Major Trends in the Intruder / Perimeter Protection Market 2020

The Intruder Alarm / Perimeter Protection market (IA/PP) is at last shaking off its reputation of being the poor relative of the Physical Security business. It is now pushing forward by applying and connecting; radar, thermal / multi-sensor cameras, advanced sensor technologies, wireless technology and also deeper integration with video surveillance & access control. Although […]

Security

Sensing the Way to Improved Data-Driven Emergency Responses

When disaster strikes and our buildings become hostile environments, data from the numerous building sensors are largely ignored. Recently, however, a number of startups and initiatives have been working to seize this missed safety-opportunity by enabling emergency services with life-saving building data and connected equipment. Every day, in major cities around the world, firefighters charge […]

Smart Buildings

A Smart Building is one that Best Serves its Occupants

A Smart Building is one that, “uses internet and transmission-based protocols to facilitate the analysis of aggregated data from multiple building systems, optimizing operational decision making as guided by the goals of the facility,” concluded a recent article titled “Defining A Smart Building” by Nora Swanson, director of design technology at engineering and design firm […]

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