A new West Technology Research Solutions report evaluates the opportunity for 802.15.4, EnOcean, Bluetooth Low Energy, Dash7, Wavenis, Low Power Wi-Fi, and ZigBee chipsets. The report includes a five-year forecast of dominant technologies.
The newly updated study, “WTRS Wireless Sensor Network Technology Trends, Q4 2010”, reviews and analyzes the available and proposed technology solutions competing for dominance in the wireless sensor network segment.
“The forecast for ZigBee components has not changed significantly over the last year”, said Kirsten West, Principal Analyst with WTRS. “While the ZigBee market survived the generalized market recession, it did not rebound as strongly as it could have. This is in part due to a continued absence of an IP-based stack option for ZigBee.”
The WTRS Wireless Sensor Network Technology Trends Report analyzes and forecasts the market for wireless sensor networks. The report includes a thorough evaluation of emerging Wireless Sensor Network technologies and associated software including ZigBee, Bluetooth Low Energy, Wavenis, IEEE 802.15.4, Low Power WiFi, EnOcean, and others.
The report also
. analyzes the potential market opportunities for Wireless Sensor Networks
. examines near versus long-range drivers impacting the market
. tracks the activities of industry alliances, strategic partnerships, and SIGs
. contains an in-depth assessment and analysis of chipset features
. evaluates energy harvesting technologies employed in wireless sensor networks
The report provides 5-year forecasts of dominant emerging wireless sensor network technologies that detail sales volume, unit shipments, and average selling price by vertical market segment as well as by geography. Applications forecast include Smart Metering, Home Area Network, Residential Health, Building Automation, Energy Management, Facility Medical, Industrial Automation, Consumer, Medical, Agriculture, Security, and Transportation. Historical price and volume data is also included.
Report Title: WTRS Wireless Sensor Network Technology Trends Report Q4 2010
No. Pages: 268 pages
No. Tables/Figures: 219
Publication Date: November 2010
SKU#: WT110810CNTS
More information at www.wtrs.net/wsntechtrends.htm
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Networks – IP and Patent Issues
In the area of lighting control solutions there are solutions integrating Energy Harvesting and wireless control technologies available to systems designers that provide a number of customer delighters. These include lower cost of installation due to a reduced requirement to pull power and control cables between switches and lights, a lower requirement for high skilled installers, the flexibility to easily and quickly reconfigure switch locations in response to floor plan changes and the opportunity to create new aesthetic solutions such as switches located on a transparent partition or window.
Given the growing success that EnOcean and members of the EnOcean Alliance are having in both the commercial and residential lighting control market, coupled with the perception that this market segment is ripe for technology-based displacement strategies, the number and focus of new entrants is rapidly growing. When one of the procurement decision check boxes is un-tethered and battery-less operation, then companies without access to these solutions will seek to acquire them.
The technology tripod that these new products will rest upon lies in the integration of three technologies:
1. Energy Harvesting and Scavenging technologies
2. Low power wireless and sensor technologies that can operate with the small amounts of energy available for use in the local environment
3. Low energy consuming communications protocol capable of providing a high degree of link reliability and adequate operational range while likewise sharing the low energy constraints.
The challenge to technology developers is to provide an integrated product incorporating all three of these technologies optimized in such a manner that the system solution itself is somehow optimal for the application use cases and achieving this while navigating the environment of existing prior art without infringing on this prior art.
At this juncture the company having the broadest technology portfolio that most completely covers all three of these requirements is EnOcean GmbH. In addition to this portfolio of intellectual property, EnOcean also holds the advantage as first mover with products in the field, as well as a growing ecosystem of companies creating new applications using and extending the EnOcean technologies. These ecosystem companies include two large US industrial products firms Leviton and Masco; both companies hold intellectual property that references and extends the EnOcean IP in the lighting control applications market.
Outside of the traditional Residential and Commercial environmental control application area is the application of the technology to passenger services in airliners. Here the advantages should be readily obvious: the infrastructure required to provide power to each seat in an airliner impacts the overall weight of the vehicle which directly impacts fuel consumption and hence operating expense for an airline. Boeing holds some interesting IP related to this application.
For more information about IP holdings related to energy harvesting for wireless sensor networks, as well as the rest of the WTRS IP & Patent collection, see www.wtrs.net/ippatent.htm
Given the growing success that EnOcean and members of the EnOcean Alliance are having in both the commercial and residential lighting control market, coupled with the perception that this market segment is ripe for technology-based displacement strategies, the number and focus of new entrants is rapidly growing. When one of the procurement decision check boxes is un-tethered and battery-less operation, then companies without access to these solutions will seek to acquire them.
The technology tripod that these new products will rest upon lies in the integration of three technologies:
1. Energy Harvesting and Scavenging technologies
2. Low power wireless and sensor technologies that can operate with the small amounts of energy available for use in the local environment
3. Low energy consuming communications protocol capable of providing a high degree of link reliability and adequate operational range while likewise sharing the low energy constraints.
The challenge to technology developers is to provide an integrated product incorporating all three of these technologies optimized in such a manner that the system solution itself is somehow optimal for the application use cases and achieving this while navigating the environment of existing prior art without infringing on this prior art.
At this juncture the company having the broadest technology portfolio that most completely covers all three of these requirements is EnOcean GmbH. In addition to this portfolio of intellectual property, EnOcean also holds the advantage as first mover with products in the field, as well as a growing ecosystem of companies creating new applications using and extending the EnOcean technologies. These ecosystem companies include two large US industrial products firms Leviton and Masco; both companies hold intellectual property that references and extends the EnOcean IP in the lighting control applications market.
Outside of the traditional Residential and Commercial environmental control application area is the application of the technology to passenger services in airliners. Here the advantages should be readily obvious: the infrastructure required to provide power to each seat in an airliner impacts the overall weight of the vehicle which directly impacts fuel consumption and hence operating expense for an airline. Boeing holds some interesting IP related to this application.
For more information about IP holdings related to energy harvesting for wireless sensor networks, as well as the rest of the WTRS IP & Patent collection, see www.wtrs.net/ippatent.htm
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Bluetooth Low Energy Forecast to Dominate Wireless Sensor Network Market
Bluetooth Low Energy will be a significant contributor to the overall Wireless Sensor Network market, representing nearly half of all shipments in 2015. Bluetooth Low Energy is designed to compete with protocols like ZigBee in applications which require infrequent and short bursts of data communication. The advantage to this new protocol is that it is totally optimized for low power battery operation.
The newly updated WTRS Wireless Sensor Network Technology Trends Q2 2010 Report analyzes and forecasts the market for wireless sensor networks. The report includes a thorough evaluation of emerging Wireless Sensor Network technologies and associated software including ZigBee, Bluetooth Low Energy, IEEE 802.15.4, Low Power WiFi, Wavenis, EnOcean, and others.
The newly updated WTRS Wireless Sensor Network Technology Trends Q2 2010 Report analyzes and forecasts the market for wireless sensor networks. The report includes a thorough evaluation of emerging Wireless Sensor Network technologies and associated software including ZigBee, Bluetooth Low Energy, IEEE 802.15.4, Low Power WiFi, Wavenis, EnOcean, and others.
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