Research and Markets: INSTEON Will Indeed Penetrate Home Automation Applications and Find A Strong Place in the Market Says New Report.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c40032) has announced the addition of "INSTEON Market Intelligence Report" to their offering.

WTRS provides the industry's only complete and independent assessment of the INSTEON(TM) landscape. The report is an excerpt of the WTRS flagship "Wireless Sensor & Control Market Tracking Service" and magnifies the potential and the overall future of INSTEON(TM).

A purchase of the report includes one hour of phone consultation with the principal analyst.

The technologies in play in the Home Automation market of today and tomorrow are INSTEON(TM), ZigBee/802.15.4, Bluetooth, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, Ultrawideband, X-10, UPB, and 433MHz short-range proprietary technologies. The manner in which these technologies interplay and the role that each takes in the home are depicted in the figure below.

INSTEON(TM), X-10, and UPB, predominantly take on lighting and appliance control functions but are also found in or applicable to audio/visual, security, landscaping, healthcare, and other applications. Ultrawideband someday may command both high-speed multimedia streaming between SetTop boxes, televisions, and stereos distributed through a home. But UWB also is capable of transmitting both digital video (wireless Firewire) and digital still photos (wireless USB). Bluetooth offers a link to the outside world (Internet) for computers as it is extended to higher data rates and in this sense can compete with Wi-Fi in some cases. The predominantly proprietary 433MHz wireless technology is generally used in home security systems that have in the past also had limited control over lighting systems. As 433MHz devices require an existing X-10 installation to function, there is a clear path to integration potential with INSTEON(TM).

It is truly the OEM who controls the gateway in the homes of tomorrow who will be the 'Ford' of this century. Hence it is our contention, and the conclusion of this study, that INSTEON(TM) will indeed penetrate Home Automation applications and find a strong place in the market. This gateway will be wireless, as well as wired. It will, by necessity, have connectivity to 3G/4G, WiMAX, Ultrawideband, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and others. This progression is being driven by companies who need to develop new products, consumers who are really tired of cables and plugs, and most especially by governments who see this convergence as a mechanism for spectrum reform that reduces the allocation, license, and monopoly headaches they have been dealing with, primarily over the last decade.

Industry Description

In keeping with the trend begun in earnest in the last third of the 19th Century, the advancement of automation has been inexorable, but not since the invention of the combustion engine has such a significant leap forward come into view as the current advancements in wireless technology. Hence, as we contemplate Home Automation today with a view to the future, our daily lives will once again change drastically, and, while not overnight, so much more rapidly than the spread of the automobile. Brought to the public notice not necessarily with a bang, developments by consumer and home automation OEMs have made even the casual observer aware of the size and extent of the impact in the home automation segment.

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