Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7f93v2/home_smart_home) has announced the addition of the "Home, Smart Home: Trends and Market Opportunities of Sensing Control Technologies" report to their offering.
Early this year, Google announced the US$3.2-billion acquisition of Nest Labs, a maker of smart home sensing control devices like thermostats and smoke alarms. This move has revealed Google's plan to enter the smart home business, offering software-hardware-service integrations. This report provides an overview of the smart home sensing control technologies, as well as major vendors' patent deployment and technology trends. Also included is an outlook for the worldwide smart home sensing device market from 2012 to 2020.
List of Topics:
- Overview of the smart home sensing control technology and component systems, touching on five major application areas: home security, home energy and utility management, thermostats and alarm systems, lighting, and entertainment.
- Patent data mining procedure and findings, including major technology fields and sectors identified through the data mining technique and assignees' R&D intensity
- A brief outlook for the sales volume of the worldwide ZigBee wireless transmission modules from 2012 to 2020
Key Topics Covered:
1. Technology Overview
- Home Security
- Home Energy and Utility Management
- Thermostats and Alarm Systems
- Lighting
- Entertainment
- Component Systems
2. Patent Data Mining of Smart Home Sensing Control Technologies
Patent Search Procedure
- Selecting a Patent Database
- Identifying Search Keywords
- Data Selection
- Data Analysis
Analysis of Technology Trends
- Text Mining
- Data Mining
- Relative R&D Intensity
- Results of Patent Index Analysis
3. Outlook for the Smart Home Sensing Control Device Market
4. Tracking and Observing Highlights
- Technology Aspect
- Patent Aspect
- Market Aspect
Companies Mentioned
- ABL IP Holding
- Alima
- American Power Conversion
- Apple
- Comcast Cable Communications
- Comerica Bank
- Conversant IP Management
- Current Technologies
- EcoFactor
- Elbex Video Ltd.
- General Electric
- Honeywell
- IBM
- ID8 GROUP R2 Studios
- ILUMISYS
- Immersion Corporation
- Legrand Home Systems
- Inc.
- Lennox Industries
- Leviton
- LG
- Logitech Europe S.A.
- Lutron Electronics
- Matsushita
- Microsoft
- Motorola
- Nest Labs
- Samsung
- Sony
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