LPLA Connections by Region, Vertical Industry and Connection Type

This report contains a forecast of Low-Power, Local-Area Network (LPLA) Connections by Vertical Industry and Region. In all there are 15 different industries and six regions in SA’s LPLA forecast models: Advanced Healthcare, Basic Healthcare, Home Security Smart Metering / Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Home Automation, Office Security, Office Metering / Utilities, Maintenance, Building Automation, Retail Outlets, Remote / Green Technology, Vehicles, Transportation and Other. Regions are Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, North America, Central and Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Middle East & Africa
Included are connections for:
Local Area and Personal Area Networking with low power characteristics. The main difference between LPLA and LPWA is that LPLA has no continuous wide-area networking, but LPLA networks may use gateways (Cellular, Wi-Fi) to achieve wider area networking. Hybrid solutions (ZigBee mesh with cellular backhaul) are counted as LPLA in this forecast with backhauled mesh networking (e.g., ZigBee mesh with Cellular M2M backhaul)
Not included are:
Low-Power, Wide-Area Networks (LPWA) Technologies including pure WAN solutions (SIGFOX, White Spaces). Most LPWA solutions are low bandwidth or ultra-low bandwidth solutions, which helps to conserve power. These are in a separate forecast
Low-Power, local-area devices that do not connect to the internet directly or via a gateway (e.g., RFID entry cards, bank cards) are not included, even though they may generate data that other services use online.
A smart card reader like Square that enables payment by direct connection through a smartphone is not generally included because such devices connect directly through the data port on the smartphone. A smart card reader using Bluetooth is included.
Fixed line connections are not included

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Connections by Region
Connections by Application