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Research Partner
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IMS Research is a leading provider of market research, business intelligence and consulting services, primarily to the electronics industry. Our services span a diverse range of sectors including semiconductors, wireless, consumer, broadband, automotive, medical, power & energy, security, mechatronics and automation.
The utility meter market has been covered by IMS Research for well over a decade, with annual reports on electricity, gas, water and heat meters. A growing list of reports from IMS Research is forming our Smart Grid market view from our Connectivity, Power & Energy, Renewables and Automation research groups. Markets currently covered in detail by IMS Research in the smart grid ecosystem include smart meters, smart home (HAN), distribution automaton, hybrid electric vehicles, renewable energy, commercial energy management systems, and consumer surveys covering issues such as demand response. All market segments are covered by end-equipment data and also semiconductor content and market opportunity.
Founded in the 1980s, IMS Research has established itself as a reliable and trusted source of market intelligence. Today we have over 120 analysts spread across three locations: Austin, USA, Wellingborough, UK, and Shanghai, China, enabling us to provide clients with comprehensive and detailed research on today’s global markets. Our customer list encompasses most of the household names in the electronics industry.
For more information: www.imsresearch.com |
Supporting Associations
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TAHI (The Application Home Initiative) is a not for profit organisation whose mission is "to accelerate the adoption of products and services by connected home based users". This means that TAHI looks for ways to improve the market for any product into the home space and all services that interface with them.
TAHI is a forum for understanding and growing the market. As such it has working groups in Energy Management and Smart Metering, Telecare and Assisted Living, Smart Building and Digital Infrastructure and, because all the infrastructure, services and equipment will have to work together, an Interoperability Working Group.
The IWG has been working to prepare a standard or set of rules for things to be interoperable and is standardising its Interoperability Framework Requirements Specification as a CENELEC Workshop Agreement. Beyond this TAHI is active in the Future Internet, since ultimately everything will be part of the FI, and is looking at helping its membership get involved in the EU FP7 Future Internet PPP call - expected in June.
TAHI is one of the very few forums where a wide variety of organisations can come together to take a holistic view of the market for systems into the home and form project consortia in an open environment.
Any organisation associated with products and services in the home space should join TAHI.
For more information: www.theapplicationhome.com
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The Wi-Fi Alliance is a global non-profit industry association of hundreds of leading companies devoted to the proliferation of Wi-Fi technology across devices and market segments. With technology development, market building, and regulatory programs, the Wi-Fi Alliance has enabled widespread adoption of Wi-Fi worldwide.
The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ program was launched in March 2000. It provides a widely-recognized designation of interoperability and quality, and it helps to ensure that Wi-Fi enabled products deliver the best user experience. The Wi-Fi Alliance has completed more than 7,000 product certifications to date, encouraging the expanded use of Wi-Fi products and services in new and established markets.
For more information: www.wi-fi.org |
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ZigBee: Control your world ZigBee is the global wireless language connecting dramatically different devices to work together and enhance everyday life. The ZigBee Alliance is a non-profit association of more than 300 member companies driving development of ZigBee wireless technology. The Alliance promotes world-wide adoption of ZigBee as the leading wirelessly networked, sensing and control standard for use in energy, home, commercial and industrial areas.
For more information: www.ZigBee.org
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Official Publication
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Metering International serves the information needs of many thousands of utility professionals, and is trusted to provide the highest quality content and insights into this changing industry. Metering International is a brand of Spintelligent, and has offices in South Africa and USA and partner companies in the Netherlands, China, Brazil and Argentina.
For more information: www.metering.com
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Media Partners
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Earthscan is the world’s leading publisher on climate change, sustainable development and environmental technology. We aim to publish original, reliable and significant work that helps to foster the conditions for genuine sustainability by providing the means for understanding and analysing the issues and the tools for resolving them.
Earthscan was originally founded by the International Institute for Environment and Development in 1987, and we continue to publish in association with them and with other environmental and development organizations world wide. We are an independent company and our books and journals are distributed throughout the world.
For more information: www.earthscan.co.uk
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The Energy & Utilities portal provides news, views and information about industry-specific events, conferences and exhibitions for the gas, power, water, telecommunications and renewables industries. With access to a comprehensive, fully searchable database of companies the site demonstrates the capability within the UK to supply products and services to the worldwide sector.
For more information: www.energyandutilities.org.uk
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HomeToys.com - A News and Information Resource for Home Technology. Daily News Stories, Hot Products, Industry Tools, Thousands of Articles and more. Join with 100,000+ industry players and 30,000+ home tech enthusiasts who visit each month to find out how to grow their businesses and expand their knowledge.
For more information: www.hometoys.com
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The Low Carbon Economy is a central resource for the low carbon economy, connecting people and businesses with low carbon products and services, information, initiatives, and each other.
We created The Low Carbon Economy in 2006 to capitalise on everything we have learned over the years at Fuel Cell Markets, and to apply our unique knowledge, resources and experience towards assisting the development of a low carbon economy as a whole.
Our unique drive and resources have enabled us to create an exceptional company uniquely positioned to deliver a truly useful online resource which has the potential to help millions of people and businesses across the globe.
For more information: www.lowcarboneconomy.com |
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M2M Zone is the premier event and media organizer covering machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, producing the largest global events in the industry, as well as the most widely viewed website and weekly newsletter for users of M2M technology. Through our events and media products, we reach systems integrators, application designers, and other end-clients in vertical market sectors that are critical to the M2M industry, such as: SmartGrid for energy & utilities, telecommunications, building & construction, supply chain management for manufacturing & retail, automotive telematics & fleet management, healthcare & insurance, and data & physical security.
For more information: www.m2mzone.com
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The Smart Grid Observer is a free daily e-newsletter that delivers the latest information concerning key technology developments, business issues, and market trends driving the global smart grid industry. Our coverage extends to utilities, equipment vendors, government agencies, standards bodies, industry associations, universities, and research groups associated with the smart grid vision. We strive on a daily basis to deliver the latest developments directly to your desktop, and as a service to the industry we deliver this information free.
To subscribe or for more information: www.smartgridobserver.com
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