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MARKET NEWS ZigBee Light Link: Ready For Business The ZigBee Alliance has completed development and ratified the ZigBee Light Link standard. The lighting industry now has an open, global standard, backed by a broad competitive ecosystem, offering wireless control for some of the world’s most efficient and flexible LED lighting solutions. The Alliance has created a standard that will be as easy to use as a common dimmer switch. Energy efficient light bulbs, LED fixtures, sensors, timers, remotes and switches built using ZigBee Light Link will easily connect into a single network, without special devices to coordinate the network. Consumers will be able to install products and add extra devices to their lighting network. Like all products using standards in the ZigBee standards portfolio, ZigBee Light Link devices can be controlled over the Internet through computers, tablets and smart phones. Consumers will enjoy the many benefits of wireless lighting control and the ability to combine products from multiple brands. “The ZigBee Alliance provided our technical working group with an excellent platform to complete ZigBee Light Link in a fast and professional manner – a standard we know that will spur the industry’s new lighting propositions,” said Jos Bruins, ZigBee Light Link working group chair from Philips. “ZigBee Light Link provides an easy-to-use and intuitive approach to next generation lighting that has the backing and support of top tier companies and product development is already underway.” The Top 50 Internet of Things Applications The exponentially growing number of objects connected to the Internet is completely changing our world. What new business models will appear? Which processes can be optimized? How many vertical markets will benefit? Libelium, a wireless sensor networks platform provider, has released the document “50 Sensor Applications for a Smarter World. Get Inspired!” covering the most disruptive sensor and Internet of Things applications. The list is grouped in 12 different verticals, showing how the Internet of Things is becoming the next technological revolution. It includes the most trendy scenarios, like Smart Cities where sensors can offer us services like Smart Parking, to find free parking spots in the streets, or managing the intensity of the luminosity in street lights to save energy. Climate change, environmental protection, water quality or CO2 emissions are also addressed by sensor networks and are just some of the examples included in the Smart Water and Smart Environment sections included in the document. Other sections such as Industrial Control, Logistics or Retail cover applications more focused in process efficiency like providing information for restocking the shelves and even product placement for marketing purposes. The list is completed with applications in the verticals of Smart Metering, Security and Emergencies, Smart Agriculture, Animal Farming, Domotic and Home Automation and eHealth. For those interested in going deeper, a chart matching specific sensors and wireless technologies for each application has been included in the document. The final list of applications is the result of 2 years of talking to market analysts, Libelium’s customers, Community developers and industry players. Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “USA Smart Grid - Statistics and Surveys - 2012” report to their offering. Smart is now well and truly on the agenda of most electricity companies, and indeed high on the agenda of the Obama Administration as well. Thanks to the stimulus package significant investments are currently being made and the first large scale projects are now reaching deployment stage. It has become increasingly clear that smart grids are able to transform the energy industry, and that a much broader group of industries are also affected by this. The other industries involved are IT, telecoms, white goods, renewables, management consultants, storage, transport, etc. The electricity grid is becoming the enabler in all these changes, and by making it an intelligent grid and adding telecoms to it, the power will shift away from the electricity companies to the customers - and the appliances that will be developed will assist this process; some of that on a M2M basis. One term being used for these developments is the ‘Internet of Things’. This industry transformation will lead to a regulated monopoly in relation to the infrastructure, while a range of new services and applications that are becoming available over the infrastructure will create increased competition, as, with many new companies entering this retail field, that market will become truly contestable. This will, of course, also lead to friction with the existing players. Disruptive energy developments from new energy service providers, who will build new business models around distributed (renewable) energy, will also add to the dynamics of the emerging market. A significantly large part of the population is interested in reducing energy costs and lowering their CO2 footprint and there is evidence that savings of around 30 percent are possible. This could largely offset the increases in electricity prices. 850 Million IEEE 802.15.4 Chipsets to Ship in 2016 USA Smart Grid - Statistics and Surveys - 2012 The IEEE 802.15.4 IC market, often referred to as wireless sensor networks (WSN), will expand to more than 850 million units per annum by 2016, experiencing a compound annual growth rate of over 60 percent from 2010 to 2016. While growth is led by advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) equipment, significant uptake is expected in home automation, home entertainment, medical and others. ZigBee is the most widely-used IEEE 802.15.4 technology, accounting for 40 percent of total shipments in 2012 and growing to more than 50 percent by 2015. Current deployments and growth are being driven by the ZigBee Alliance, the industry body now comprising more than 400 members including IC suppliers such as Freescale, Intel, Marvell, NXP, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments. ABI Research’s study, “Wireless Sensor Networks,” analyzes IEEE 802.15.4 and which standards, such as ZigBee, Wireless HART and ISA100.11a, will influence and drive the market. 38 www.ZigBeeResourceGuide.com  http://www.ZigBeeResourceGuide.com

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