Actionable Benefits

• Develop strategies to maximize the opportunity emerging from connectivity in residential building service equipment.
• Determine product development roadmaps and marketing strategies to drive wider smart home functionality and market reach.
• Enable focused investment in key ecosystem development to ensure valuable engagement in the emerging market potential.
• Provide the basis for  focused product and marketing strategies to underpin connected home services equipment adoption and monetization.

Critical Questions Answered

• What does connectivity in building services equipment bring to the smart home market?
• Which vendors, applications and technologies are driving the connectivity into residential services equipment, supply-chain and customer base?
• What steps will support growth in the market and what barriers must be overcome?
• What is the size and scale of the residential building services smart home opportunity by major application and connected equipment?
• How will smart home platforms and the wider smart home industry adapt to embrace and leverage residential connected building services systems? 

Research Highlights

• Detailed forecasts for the key connected devices by application area: HVAC, Plumbing and Electrical Systems.
• Detailed analysis of why and how  connected equipment OEMs will have to develop and promote their connected offerings to their installer channel ecosystems.
• Detailed forecast, key smart home device and connectivity forecasts segmented by key country.

Who Should Read This?

• Innovation leaders within current and potential connected residential equipment OEMs looking to develop and adopt a smart home strategy either directly or through third-party integration.
• Smart home service provider organizations and smart home equipment OEMs.
• Wireless silicon IC designers and providers looking to gauge the appeal and potential of a host of competing new connected devices and their integration into the smart home market.
• Industry alliances and governmental and regulatory agencies looking to gain understanding of the potential impact and reach of connectivity across home services infrastructure and services.
• Residential construction, sales and management players investigating the potential to grow value and operational efficiency.