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...

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...

Latin American market is still very nascent for smart grid, when comparing to other regions such Europe and the United States. While few power utilities are conducting pilot projects in specific countries, regulatory agencies start to plan the legal directions for broader implementations. At the same time, ICT companies are expecting these definiti...

This report will address requirements that utilities have to implement distributed, secure, and reliable network and operations infrastructure to support Smart Grid deployments worldwide, and its synergy with Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and Operations Support System/Business Support System (OSS/BSS) vendors.