Annual Subscription: Smart Home Strategies

Smart Home Strategies (SHS) is an advisory service focusing on emerging opportunities in home monitoring, energy management, and home control systems and services. After many years of market exploration and trials, digital and IP technologies are finally enabling the widespread commercial service deployments which allow consumers to control and interact with their home security, energy and management systems. SHS builds on Strategy Analytics’ 40-year heritage in exploring emerging home technology, application and service opportunities and identifies the key factors for success in this next stage in the digital home’s evolution.

The Smart Home Strategies service addresses critical questions like:

Which smart home solutions will consumers find compelling enough to pay for?
What are the technology roadmaps for emerging smart home applications and services?
What is the state of the ecosystem of industry participants and how is this evolving?
Will smart home services be driven by consumer demand or industry push?
What are the drivers and inhibitors of growth?
Which smart home business models will be most successful for which participants?
Do successful smart home implementations require management by service providers or will retail/OTT offers prevail?
What are the demand and revenue forecasts for smart home consumer devices and technologies?
How will mobile operators benefit from smart home service and technology deployments?
How will partnerships between communications service providers and utilities evolve?
Smart Home Strategies Distinctions

Smart Home Strategies (SHS) builds on Strategy Analytics’ 40-year history of tracking and forecasting the emergence of home technologies and services based on a combination of consumer survey and industry analysis techniques. Strategy Analytics first examined the smart home market in its ground-breaking Interactive Home multi-client study of 1986, providing comprehensive analysis of the complex regulatory, technology and consumer demand framework which providers must consider when planning for this sector.

SHS supports Strategy Analytics’ blue-chip client base in the service provider and technology vendor sectors. SHS offers online database tracking of global Smart Grid deployments. SHS analyses consumer interest in emerging smart home services and applications to support defensible market evolution scenarios and development models.

Smart Home Strategies Service Elements

Global market forecasts of Smart Home Devices, Systems and Services
Energy management, smart grid, home control, security and monitoring
Consumer market demand, segmentation and drivers
Competitive landscape: utilities, communications, devices, enabling technologies