KEY TAKE AWAYS

• To define the global smart home market.
• To measure the global smart home and its various sub-segments, which will include products, technology and applications
• To identify the major driving factors and inhibitors of smart home market
• To analyze the trends and forecasts of the smart home market and its segments
• To identify the major stakeholders in the market and draw a competitive landscape for the market leaders
• To analyze the opportunities in the market for the stakeholders

REPORT DESCRIPTION

The best in safety, security and comfort that was originally intended for the etechnologically inclined if is now reaching the general public through smart home. Smart home not only makes daily routine convenient and time saving but also provides energy efficiency. Older and disabled are heavily reliant on home care; smart home are promising to improve their living standards. The benefits of smart home can be endless. Starting from gate access through garden irrigation could be done in ease. Smart home have already started attracting the stakeholders in the market including architects, developers and device manufacturers. The possibility of reduction in prices of smart home and expected adoption to technology is the key to market growth in the future. With the stakeholders becoming active in the market for developing new and improved standards in smart home, this market is expected to grow at a decent pace for many years to come.

Existing studies and third party market reports do not provide a comprehensive understanding of the smart home market and there is a lack of focus on its various market segments. In this report, we provide size and estimates of Smart home market and its various sub segments which have not yet been done. A geographic split of each of the submarket is also provided in our report which is not present in any of the other third party reports.

MARKETS COVERED

Smart home can mainly be divided into products for home control and monitoring and networked or IP-based consumer electronics. We have covered in our report in depth both these categories. We have also included the sub segments of home control and monitoring such as smart home control services and technologies, networked security, door handles, internet-enabled white goods and other segments as well in great detail. The major types of network and IP-based consumer electronics such as digital home audio devices, DVD players, televisions and others have also been covered in our report. The important standards of smart home like Insteon, X10, CEBus and Lon Works are alse explained in detail in our report. We have done an in-depth geographic analysis for each of the markets and their sub-segments, covering the major regional markets, viz. U.S, Europe, Asia and Rest of the World.

Each section will provide market drivers, trends and opportunities, top-selling products, key players, and competitive outlook. This report will also provide more than 50 market tables for various geographic regions covering the sub-segments and micro-markets. In addition, the report also provides 40 company profiles for each of its sub-segments.

The intended audience of this report includes:

• Housing developers
• Architects
• Smart home device manufacturers
• Dealers
• Designers
• Installers
• Home owners

Table Of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Summary

3. Market Overview
   3.1. Evolution of smart home.
   3.2. Defining the smart home market
   3.3. Defining the smart home benefits
   3.4. Defining the stake holders
   3.5. Concerns about smart home
   3.6. Ethical issues associated with technological integration in homes
   3.7. Social connectedness and sustainable development of citizenship
   3.8. Driving factor analysis of smart home market
   3.9. Market trend analysis
        3.9.1. Age group (Demography)
        3.9.2. Home size vs price
        3.9.3. Region (countries)
   3.10. Market segment analysis

4. Smart Home products
   4.1. Products for home control and monitoring
        4.1.1. Smart home control services and technologies
               4.1.1.1. Connected Hearth and HAI
               4.1.1.2. Shell HomeGenie and Xanboo
        4.1.2. Networked Security
               4.1.2.1. Networked security Cameras
                        4.1.2.1.1. Video door phones
                        4.1.2.1.2. Channel Modulators
        4.1.3. Door Handles
        4.1.4. Internet-enabled white goods
        4.1.5. Text-based (Mobile SMS based) control
        4.1.6. Motion sensors
        4.1.7. Others
   4.2. Networked and IP-based consumer electronics
        4.2.1. Digital home audio devices
        4.2.2. DVD player
        4.2.3. Set top boxes (including game consoles and PVRs)
        4.2.4. Televisions
        4.2.5. Others
4.2.5.1. Picture frames
4.2.5.2. E-mail devices
4.2.5.3. Portable devices
   4.3. Smart home standards/technology
   4.4. Mostly Prevalent standards
        4.4.1. Insteon         
        4.4.2. X10
        4.4.3. CEBus
        4.4.4. LonWorks
   4.5. Other standards
        4.5.1. KNX (standard)
        4.5.2. PLC Bus
        4.5.3. ZigBee
        4.5.4. Z-Wave
        4.5.5. Universal power line bus
        4.5.6. KNX
        4.5.7. UP nP
        4.5.8. C Bus
        4.5.9. OpenWebNet

5. Smart home applications/features
   5.1. Lighting
   5.2. Main gate security and visitor tracking
   5.3. Entertainment
   5.4. Event tracking
   5.5. Energy management
   5.6. Smart card based access to home
   5.7. Single button emergency call
   5.8. Home health
   5.9. Digital Answering Machine with personal voice message boxes
   5.10. Video surveillances
   5.11. Switching on/off lights, fans
   5.12. Fire alarm
   5.13. Others

6. Future smart home
   6.1. Water smart home
   6.2.Smart energy homes

7. Geographic Analysis
   7.1. U.S
   7.2. Europe
   7.3. Asia
   7.4. Rest of the World

8. Stake holder analysis
   8.1. Housing developers
   8.2. Architects
   8.3. Smart Home device manufacturers
   8.4. Dealers
   8.5. Home owners

9. Company Profiles
   9.1. Netgear
   9.2. Digihome Solutions
   9.3. Zeos Infotech
   9.4. GenX Home
   9.5. Osim
   9.6. I-Berhad
   9.7. Hugewin
   9.8. Intell
   9.9.  Others

10. Patent Analysis