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A Thintri MARKET STUDY Market Opportunities in 2017 Short Range Wireless Thintri, Inc. announces the release of Market Opportunities in Short Range Wireless, a new report that explores short range wireless technologies and the markets they address. A number of these technologies have already created billion dollar markets, while others are just beginning, but most are poised for dramatic growth. Thintri’s report covers the array of available short range wireless technologies including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID, ZigBee, Z-Wave, ANT and others, and examines major market opportunities such as Contents healthcare and the smart home. Short Range Wireless • RFID • The Smart Home Market forecasts are provided Technologies Overview — Standards — Home Area Networks • Network Types — Passive Tags — Smart Home going out to 2023. • WLANs — Active Tags Platforms: Z-Wave, • WPANs — Semi-Passive, Battery- Wi-Fi, etc. Assisted Tags — Market Growth Standards and Protocols — Tag Classes • ANT/ANT+ — RFID vs. Barcodes • Healthcare • UWB — Established and — Sensors Thintri Inc. • Wireless USB Emerging Markets — Protocols in Wireless • Wi-Fi — Healthcare: ANT, Thintri Inc. provides business and • WiGig • Near Field ZigBee, UWB, market intelligence for a wide range • Bluetooth/BLE Communications (NFC) Bluetooth, etc. of technologies through custom • ZigBee — Security — Security consulting, technology assessments, • 6LoWPAN — Purchases and — Capsule Endoscopy Transactions — E-Skin and published market studies. • Z-Wave • WirelessHD — New Applications — Wearables: WBANs, • Semiconductors • Others MBANs • Electronics • iBeacons — Challenges of the • Photonics Technology Platforms — The Role of Bluetooth Human Body • Telecommunications • Infrared and BLE — mHealth and Remote • Materials engineering — IrDA — Beacon Technology Monitoring — Network Layers — Market Development — Commercialization — IrDA vs. Bluetooth of Technologies — Market Development — Cautions — Regulation Thintri Inc — Market Development Business Intelligence • Technology Assessment www.thintri.com Background on Short result in a merging of smart home functions Understand the Markets as large security providers are forced to Range Wireless and broaden their focus to include a far larger Short range wireless technologies offer range of smart home product offerings. extraordinary opportunities. From platforms Emerging Markets and applications that are already well- Emerging smart home applications will established in billion-dollar markets, to new As wireless communications captures include smart lighting systems that can suit protocols and markets that are only now and creates numerous markets, the short any mood, garage doors that automatically emerging, potential market volumes are range wireless (SRW) segment is creating open on the approach of the user’s phone, enormous and in many cases growing significant opportunities. “Short range,” in outdoor motion sensors that can distinguish rapidly. Depending on the market, growth this case, refers to technologies that are between pets and humans, and systems is already well underway, is starting now, largely (but not exclusively) limited to about that can feed pets on schedule, among or will start soon. And yet, there are legacy 10m, or 30 feet, roughly the size of a house many others. Some new products will technologies that will decline in this period or small building. Evolving technologies enhance the safety of residents, such as as they become constrained by older and standards, some of which have elderly people living alone. standards that are less adaptable in already captured billion-dollar markets, are the new marketplace. Completely new set to create enormous new markets as Similarly, SRW technology is remaking markets, many of them targeted at the inexpensive, user-friendly platforms find their healthcare and medical services. Within rapidly evolving consumer sector, present way into a host of new applications. hospitals, wireless sensors can eliminate new requirements that can only be met by the tangle of cables that not only proves more recently developed protocols. And Platforms like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are cumbersome and prevents patient mobility the proliferation of platforms has meant already well established, with annual but SRW technology can also provide that some markets are served by several device shipments in the billions of units per immediate warning of critical events such protocols, initiating fierce competition year. Their markets are growing rapidly as as cardiac arrest. In the operating room among them. new applications continually surface. The during surgery, elimination of wires and more recent development of protocols cables can significantly improve patient In this period of unparalleled promise, like ANT, 6LoWPAN, Z-Wave and others, safety and efficiency of medical staff. flux and uncertainty, the winners will be along with plunging hardware prices, has those who most quickly apply the best set up conditions for a rapid expansion of The real revolution in medical care brought technologies to the most appropriate new commercial and consumer markets. about by SRW technology, however, markets. The platforms are available and The result will be explosive markets in will be the unprecedented increase in markets waiting. In some cases the only applications that in many cases barely exist mobility and efficiency brought about barrier is that the hardware needs to be less today. by small, inexpensive wireless sensors costly; in others, there simply needs to be and the associated infrastructure that greater customer awareness. Thintri’s report Some of those technologies will revolutionize will allow complete or nearly complete highlights the available short range wireless the conduct of ordinary commerce. For mobility for many patients while providing technologies and analyzes their market example, near field communications (NFC) continuous, 24 hour monitoring of a broad opportunities, with forecasts to 2023. will enable mobile or “smart” wallets that range of physiological parameters such as allow a smartphone to perform the normal blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, actions of credit cards and eliminate the respiration, blood glucose levels, electrical use of cash. Already, hotel customers can activity in the brain and others. Medical use their smart phones for keyless room body area networks (MBANs) will not only entry, and airline customers can use their ease the experience of patients in hospitals phones as boarding passes, all without but will allow many patients, who would reaching for a credit card or document. otherwise be confined to a hospital, to return home and remain under continuous The “smart home” is an arena where a monitoring. When a monitored parameter broad array of commercial products is reaches a value outside of the desired already available, but which is also poised range, an alert can be triggered that will for dramatic growth. The smart home Price: $4,300 quickly notify medical staff who can then market is now dominated by applications take appropriate action. that optimize HVAC performance and energy conservation, as well as security, but In some of these promising markets, Contact: that scope is expanding quickly. Platforms hardware costs are still too high to like Insteon, Bluetooth/BLE, Z-Wave and J. Scott Moore, Ph.D., President realize market potential, in spite of early others will allow consumers far from home Thintri, Inc. rapid growth in most of those markets. to talk by video with a repair technician Mount Kisco, NY Nevertheless, like most technologies, prices at their door, confirm identity, let the Phone: 914/242-4615 are declining at a significant rate that will technician in, watch them while working, Fax: 914/666-4114 facilitate market growth. and lock the front door after their leaving. E-mail: [email protected] The evolution of SRW technologies will Web: www.thintri.com Report Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .........................................................................1 2.11 Wi-Fi ..................................................................................67 E.1 Background .................................................................................1 2.11.1 Wi-Fi Versions .................................................................67 E.1.1 Wireless LANs and MANs ...................................................1 Table 2.1 Wi-Fi versions ............................................................68 E.1.2 WPANs ................................................................................1 2.11.2 Wi-Fi Market Development ..........................................70 E.1.3 WBANs ................................................................................3 2.12 60 GHz ..................................................................................71 E.1.4 Markets ...............................................................................3 2.12.1 WiGig ..............................................................................71 E.2 Standards and Protocols ...........................................................4 2.12.2 WirelessHD .....................................................................75 E.2.1 Introduction ........................................................................4 Table 2.2 Summary, Wireless Platforms ..................................76 E.2.2 ISM Band ............................................................................4 E.2.3 Short Range Platforms ......................................................5