Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

• Networked Entertainment Electronics
• Home Servers and Shared Storage
• Digital-Rights Management, Access Controls, and Related Technologies
• Sensors and Actuators
• User Interfaces
• Productivity and Home-Office Devices
• Last-Mile Networks and Access Devices
• Remote Access to the Home
• Service-Provider Resources
• P2P Technology Resources
• Connectivity Standards
• Committee, Alliance, and de Facto Standards
• Types of Connections
• Prevailing Standards
• Mesh Networks and Emerging Standards
• Resource-Discovery Protocols

Commercial Development Parameters

• Demand Factors
• General Constraints
• Synergistic Technologies
• Competing Technologies
• Required Resources
• Regulatory Factors

Areas to Monitor

• Conditions That Vary Greatly across Scenarios
  • Strategic Strongholds
  • Business Models and Application Stores
  • Standards
  • Islands of Incompatibility versus the Internet Metamedium
  • Ease of Integration
  • Mobile Integration
  • Applications for Enthusiasts
  • The Price and Value of "Green"
  • Copyrights
  • Patent Rights
  • Big Data
• Wild Cards: Unlikely Events That Would Dramatically Transform Markets
  • Household Robots
  • Energy Breakthrough
  • Super-Smart Homes

Implications of Commercialization

• Do-It-Yourself Home-Automation Environment
• Over-the-Top Service Environment
• Pay-TV Service Environment
• Mobile-Integrated Home-Automation Environment

Opportunities

• Applications
  • Sharing Files, Printers, and Broadband Connections
  • Networked Games
  • Virtual Reality
  • Network-Based Synchronization
  • Mobile Integration
  • Cameras and Baby Monitors
  • Multiroom Systems and Multimedia Routing
  • Home Servers
  • Home Security
  • Climate Control and Energy Management
  • E-Frigerators and Automated E-Commerce
  • Other Networked Appliances
  • Elder Care
  • Home Health and Fitness Monitoring
  • Robotics and Mechatronics
  • Personal Manufacturing
  • Targeted Advertising and Merchandising
• Business Models
  • Do-It-Yourself Value Network
  • Pay-TV Quadruple-Play Value Network
  • "Trojan-Horse" Game-Console Value Network
  • Other Business Models

Updates

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