Connected Industry Market Research Reports

The past 2-3 years have witnessed an increasing interest in smart grids and smart energy. Smart meters are considered to be the first step towards smart grid implementation. The smart meter rollout in Europe is well underway, boosted by the European Union legislation to achieve 80 percent coverage by 2020. Sweden and Italy had full scale penetratio...

The majority of European energy utilities have made considerable amount of progress towards smart grid implementation, especially in the areas of automated meter infrastructure (AMI) and demand side management. Approximately 35 per cent of utilities companies do not know when a return on investment will be achieved from their programs, whereas 29 p...

This study analyses the European market for materials and chemicals used in three core segments of smart grid infrastructure: materials for smart e-meters; insulation and jacketing materials for HV/EHV/HVDC subsea and underground Cables; and chemicals & materials for Li-ion battery systems for large-scale energy storage. The key drivers and challen...

This analysis focuses on defining the next layer of M2M opportunities for the ICT sector. Frost & Sullivan identified a broad concept of Smart Cities that includes a variety of M2M functions and different stakeholders.  We believe that M2M in the Government sector can be described around a Smart Cities Concept.  Our analysis lays out the What, W...

The key objective of this research service is to provide an analysis of the key trends in the European smart grid market from 2007 to 2017: to identify the opportunities for automation solution providers prevalent through investments in implementing smart grids; to determine the implications of adopting smart grids demand response strategies; to id...

The study briefly assesses the market status of the connected devices. It then looks at what the industry is doing in this area through two case studies of two important market participants. The case studies show how the industry is moving from different angles towards the Internet of Things vision, in other words the idea of a world of connected h...