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Advances in Wireless Protocols for Building Automation (Technical Insights)
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September 2006
Published By:
Frost & Sullivan
Page Count:
113
Order Code:
R1-5075
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Research Overview
This Frost & Sullivan research service titled Advances in Wireless Protocols for Building Automation provides an in-depth analysis of the technical developments surrounding wireless technology adoption in buildings, and looks at its impact on the building automation space through key drivers, influencing market factors, challenges backed by scenario, stakeholder, patent and M&A analysis, to identify the complex activities that encompass the disruptive opportunities wireless technology provides.
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Market Sectors
Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:
- Wireless
- Building technologies
- Automation & control systems
- Sensors
- HVAC
Technologies
The following technologies are covered in this research:
- Wireless network
- Wireless sensor network
- Wireless mesh network
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi
- ZigBee
- Building automation system
- Sensor technology
Technology Overview
Advances in Technology Shift Focus of Pervasive Communication to Building Automation Space
The future of human civilization revolves around the idea of pervasive communication, which is envisioned to be so powerful that everyday devices will be able to identify each other’s presence, role, and interactions in a beneficial manner. Sensing of physical environmental conditions will be extremely easy with high reliability, rather than just being a data acquisition activity. "The information collected by devices are likely to be processed and used to generate an intelligent response that is expected to lead to coordinated action amongst devices to satisfy user and system needs," according to the analyst of the study. "Due to the progress and technology development in the area of wireless communication, the situation has come to translate this dream to reality and apply it to a lot of applications such as building automation."
However, the ability to carry out sensing, computing, and manipulating activities related to the physical world is not practically viable on a wired infrastructure consisting of a number of instruments. It requires a lot of effort, consumes time, and is very costly. Hence the users do not prefer it. Wireless communication offers a solution, whereby these challenges are overcome giving rise to possibility of deploying a large array of sensors that can improve the system performance.
Evolution of Wired Infrastructure to Boost Future of Building Automation
Traditional building automation systems have been able to obtain limited benefits from the information present in devices, systems, and physical environment, due to the limitation of wiring areas. Again the cost, convenience, and time associated with wiring the entire infrastructure have created a gap between application needs and offered capabilities. Installing new sensors, connecting hard-to-wire areas with systems, monitoring device or structural health, and commissioning new systems or retro-fitting, offer a very limited scope of deployment. Wireless communication-based devices provide the answer for all these problems. Cost and reliability, which form the underlying factors for adoption of a disruptive technology such as wireless in the building automation space, have reached a stage wherein the various factions of building industry can evaluate wireless technology, and deploy it immediately to avail the tangible and intangible benefits offered by it.
Wired infrastructures have traditionally dominated the building automation space with decades of technological evolution often marred by limited technical capability, presence of proprietary solutions, or cost. "However, in the recent years wired building automation systems have taken building operation to new heights through deployment of sensor network, embedded intelligence in field level devices, greater device integration, and decision making control strategies," explains the analyst. "All these have translated into a future of building automation, which will provide excellent comfort levels, state-of-the-art security, optimized operational costs, and exceptional smartness."
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