Industries

Global smart grid investment is likely to grow rapidly. By 2025, a complete transformation to a smarter grid is unlikely but the process would have gained pace with major changes underway in grid automation, demand-side management, and Big Data analytics. Revenue growth will be the fastest in Europe. Demand response and advanced metering infrastruc...

This research service discusses current and future potential of the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) industry. It provides a strategic overview of the Chinese EV market, including key technology trends, market drivers, and restraints for EVs and relevant charging infrastructure. Market size and forecasts of the EV market by OEM, model, and segment, as...

This research service analyzes the European substation automation market and the impact of smart grid. Substation automation is an integral part of the smart grid installation across Europe. Incorporation of intelligence in the substation devices, and automating this operation using said intelligence is called substation automation. Automation of s...

The research service assesses the key stakeholder activities across the near field communication (NFC) value chain. Innovations and trends pertaining to stakeholders including hardware providers, handset manufacturers, application providers, trusted service management providers, and mobile network operators are assessed. The influence of these stak...

AMI (advanced metering infrastructure) investment leads to significant organisational, technological, and commercial changes because utilities must embrace new business models to better amortise the investments. Smart metering supports customer-centric utility and the concept of empowering customers as enablers for smart energy. However, most utili...

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...

Smart buildings are an integral part of the future of building technologies. Over the course of this decade, several factors are expected to promote the development of smart buildings. The market will be fuelled by the need for energy efficiency and decreasing operational costs. Revenues are highest in North America and Europe. However, certain tec...