Connected Homes
Technology Map Detailed Contents
March 2020
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
- Standards and Types of Connections
- Prevailing Standards
- Mesh Networks
- 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"
- The Price and Value of Resilience
- Cybersecurity
- 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
- Studio-Centric Service 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
- Alliances and Partnerships
- Amazon's Business Ecosystem
- Strategic Network Endpoints
- Do-It-Yourself Value Network
Updates
Viewpoints Features
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