Blogs tagged: Connected Home

The home automation market is big business, growing over 30% a year and expected to be worth $9.5 (£6) billion worldwide in 2015, according to Berg Insight. In 2012 it remains an immature and fragmented market but one that is attracting the attention of major new suppliers such as multinational telecommunications enterprises.

The Connected Home, with a networked energy management system, is achievable now. The UK government has mandated dual gas and electric smart meters for every home and business by 2020. In the near future homes will communicate through their power meter with the Smart Grid, allowing both utility companies and consumers to manage power usage.  But greater convergence and more focus on end user engagement is needed before the Connected Home is realised, paticularly where utility companies are concerned.

Verizon, the American telecommunications giant, recently launched its range of Connected Home devices and services to give consumers a comprehensive Smart Home ecosystem. The new system offers a broad range of Connected Home devices from smart door locks to energy monitoring equipment, all manageable remotely from the web or a smartphone app.

Our free consultative workshops for telecom’s and utility companies aim to help make sense of the who, what, how and why of the Connected Home.

We are witnessing the next major evolution of the Internet with a switch in focus from delivering content to delivering capability.  We are moving to a networked world where every device (light switch/plug socket/appliance) will be IP addressable and the web will be used to connect and integrate them...

The arrival of more intelligent home gateways, the addition of WiFi, DECT and femtocell connectivity plus storage and the expansion of services to include home monitoring and security, appliance control and energy management as well as a raft of other new domestic applications provides both a threat and an opportunity to service providers...

In a White Paper by the Department of Health entitled “A Vision for Adult Social Care: Capable Communities and Active Citizens” which was published on the 16^th of November 2010, a key issue that was raised was the “vision for prevention”. This vision emphasises that there should be a shift towards less of a reliance on the state for support...

Recent research by Parks Associates forecasts that there will be a dramatic shift in the composition of the Connected Home market over the next 5 years, with connected consumer electronics and mobile devices - primarily smartphones and tablets - making up a whopping 80% of the predicted 7 billion connected nodes worldwide by 2015...