14 Million ‘Smart’ Wireless Sensor Network Households in 2012
Driven by emerging standards, increasing energy costs, and advances with Wireless Sensor Networking (WSN), the “smart home” is becoming a reality for the mass market. This extensive investigation with over 100 home installers, vendors, and suppliers found that the wireless smart home market is accelerating. Indicators of this growth include hundreds of products currently shipping and established service providers such as AT&T and SK Telecom are starting to offer WSN based home monitoring services.
While proprietary WSN systems have been used by professional installers in luxury homes for over a decade, wireless protocols such as Z-Wave and ZigBee will make smart home solutions affordable for the average household.
With a total potential market size of 6 billion cumulative WSN nodes worldwide, the residential sector is an essential target market for wireless sensing and control solutions. Some of the largest and fastest growing smart home markets include lighting, energy management, security, entertainment control, and home health. In 2012, the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) smart home market will be worth $2.8 billion worldwide, up from $470 million in 2007.
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