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IoT Start-up Tracker—Smart Cities
IoT Paves the Way toward Resilient, Sustainable, Safe and Healthy Cities Start-Ups Provide IoT Products Aiming at Making Cities Smarter Help Boost Economic Growth and Enhance Citizens’ Life Quality
20-Dec-2022
Global
Market Research
K7D4-01-00-00-00
IT04645-GL-MT_27294
In the post-pandemic scenario, city governments invest in the effective use of data to deliver efficient urban transport systems, a cleaner environment, robust urban infrastructure, and improve city dwellers' overall quality of life. Frost & Sullivan's IoT Building Smart Cities: Growth Opportunities for IoT Start-ups is a resource to help the ecosystem participants identify solution providers with offerings that match smart city challenges.
Building Smart Cities provides a rich database of start-up and niche players that can transform processes in smart cities and add value to the end-user. These companies were selected based on the Frost & Sullivan best practices database and secondary research on IoT start-ups mappings and rankings worldwide.
This study provides a list of start-ups focused on IoT solutions for smart cities made by region, including different segments: smart health, smart building, smart connectivity, and broadband access.
Frost & Sullivan conducted detailed primary interviews with start-ups that stand out for providing IoT modules, IoT platforms, and IoT power to smart city use cases across the globe to understand relevant developments, strategies, and value propositions. Each player's competitive profile was generated through an analysis of the IoT start-up performance in the smart city market.
Finally, this study also provides growth opportunities in the smart city vertical for participants of the IoT ecosystem:
• Open-Source Software and IoT Management Platforms for Cities Transformation
• Affordable Hardware for Integrated Solutions
• Wider Breadth of Connectivity Options for Smart Cities
• Crowd Management through Data Visualization
• Security & Data Protection
Why is it Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
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The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Smart Cities Industry
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Key Findings
Definition of the IoT
Scope of the Study
Research Process and Methodology
Research Process and Methodology (continued)
IoT in Smart Cities—Key Study Topics
Smart Cities in the Post-COVID-19 World
Digital Technologies Propelling the Growth of Smart Cities
IoT and Data Analytics as Essential Smart City Enablers
Key Parameters Defining Smart Cities
Connectivity Networks for Smart Cities
Key Smart City Success Factors
Resilience and Smart City Initiatives
Resilience and Smart City Initiatives (continued)
Transformative Mega Trends Impacting Future Cities
Trend Opportunity Levers
Trend Opportunity Attractiveness Analysis
Trend Opportunity Attractiveness Analysis (continued)
Key Competitors (Start-Ups) in the Smart City Market
Scoring Methodology for competitive profiles
Innovation Target for competitive profiles
Akenza—Company Profile
Akenza—Analyst Viewpoint
Blues Wireless—Company Profile
Blues Wireless—Analyst Viewpoint
Hologram—Company Profile
Hologram—Analyst Viewpoint
Ossia—Company Profile
Ossia—Analyst Viewpoint
Growth Opportunity 1—Open-source Software and IoT Management Platforms for Cities Transformation
Growth Opportunity 1—Open-source Software and IoT Management Platforms for City Transformation (continued)
Growth Opportunity 2—Affordable Hardware for Integrated Solutions
Growth Opportunity 2—Affordable Hardware for Integrated Solutions (continued)
Growth Opportunity 3—Wider Connectivity Options for Smart Cities
Growth Opportunity 3—Wider Connectivity Options for Smart Cities (continued)
Growth Opportunity 4—Crowd Management through Data Visualization
Growth Opportunity 4—Crowd Management through Data Visualization (continued)
Growth Opportunity 5—Security and Data Protection
Growth Opportunity 5—Security and Data Protection (continued)
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