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Beyond the Hype: Assessing What We Know About the PassiveLogic Ecosystem, So Far
December 4th, 2023What is the Key to Rapid Evolution in Access Control Technologies?
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‘Mobilizing’ Next-Gen Access Control in the Workplace
The use of mobile devices in the workplace has become a significant trend, accelerated by the global pandemic, and vendors of workplace apps are now seeing strong demand for applications that enable smarter, safer, and more secure workplaces, according to our latest research. Leveraging this trend, workplace apps are being developed to act as an […]
Building Resilience in the Physical Security Supply Chain
The escalation of coronavirus cases in China has reminded technology markets around the world that the supply chain challenges of recent years may last longer than expected. The pandemic is not the only disruption and many in the smart buildings and physical security industries are being forced to reconsider their approach to supply chain resilience […]
Apple Set to Disrupt the Access Control Market?
While the access control market has typically been slow to embrace advanced mobile technologies, tech giant Apple inc could drive change in the market according to our latest research. Apple opened up its Wallet feature for third-party app developers which will have big implications for mobile access credentials. The move has triggered a range of […]
Charting Echelon’s Meandering Journey to EnOcean
In February 1988, in Palo Alto, California, a startup company was founded by Armas Clifford “Mike” Markkula Jr. the grandson of a Finnish immigrant to the US. That company, Echelon Technology, would go on to develop the LON protocol, and help pioneer the evolution of open standard networking platforms, making a big contribution to the IoT […]
An Unfortunate Supply Chain of Events
“The global electronics and semiconductor industries are currently suffering the most serious disruptions to supply chain operations in living memory. Supply chain issues have been driven by a series of interrelated trends that have served to complicate, compound, and increase both the scale and impact of the challenge,” reads our latest research study. “These issues have […]
Has Smart Home Technology Lost Its Way?
Over the last 18-months, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, commercial buildings have largely been empty and residential buildings have never seen such high occupancy during the day. Unsurprisingly, home improvement has been high on the agenda for people around the world, especially in the affluent developed nations that were hit hard by the virus […]
A Year in The Life of a Building — The Turbulent Story of 2020
The beginning of 2020 seems like a long time ago. While COVID-19 was already starting to make an impact in China and neighboring countries, for the rest of the world it was just another January. In the smart building industry, we were talking about Amazon, Apple, and Google asserting their dominance over the smart home […]
How COVID-19 & the Recession Will Impact the Tech Industry
The swift and massive shock of the coronavirus pandemic and shutdown measures to contain it have plunged the global economy into a severe contraction. According to World Bank forecasts, the global economy will shrink by 5.2% this year. That decline represents the deepest recession since the Second World War, the World Bank says in its […]
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