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 issue of Vital Signs, released on March 26, 2012, provides a strategic insight on critical tools and mechanisms that accelerate knowledge discoveries along the translational cancer research continuum. Additionally, a company spotlight is provided for SoloHealth. While self-service healthcare is by no means new, with blood pressure kiosks be...

The need to connect the devices in the home to the smart grid in order to increase control of those devices and improve energy efficiency are driving a merge between home technologies and smart grid deployment. This study evaluates the factors impacting such trend as well the benefits and barriers the industry is facing. An overview of related tech...

Market pressures to improve energy efficiency are driving a merge between building technologies and information and communication technologies to develop intelligent buildings and smart grids. This study evaluates the factors impacting such trend and the benefits for an integrated network of energy consumers (buildings) with power suppliers (utilit...

Awareness of smart grid technology is low to moderate, yet awareness likely does not stem from electric utility companies. Consistent with the previous years results, nearly 40 percent of residential energy consumers are aware of smart grid technology. However, only very few respondents are aware of any efforts by electric utility companies to int...

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...

This research covers the implications of smart grid on the manufacturing industry and how demand response is leading to energy efficiency initiatives. While the research will include the competitive dynamics, it will also highlight the influence of smart grid initiatives towards potentially changing the manufacturing operations and the control syst...

The CEE smart grid market is relatively small and under-developed compared to Western Europe and North America. However, significant growth opportunities exist. This Market Insight looks at the outlook for the market and the initial indicators of growth and projects achieved so far.