Sensors in Consumer Electronics Market Research and Industry Trends

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Smart Home Security Solutions Offers More Than Just Securing Your Assets

Sudden rise in thefts worldwide is driving the home security industry globally. Asian countries are observing an exponential growth.

We never know when a bugler strikes, lurking around a house and waiting for a perfect opportunity to relieve a homeowner of his or her valuables. In any event where a criminal manages to bypass security a home owner can still make it difficult for him by concealing all the expensive items, say research analysts at Allied Market Research. In addition, researchers analyzing the share size and growth opportunities in the home security solutions market explain that many DIY kits can also help homeowners secure their assets. Today, the United States leads when it comes to burglaries and thefts.

     So what are market players upto?

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What’s driving the home security solutions market?

Approximately 65% thieves or buglers use force to enter a house and gain access to the valuables. Furthermore, surprisingly over 25% enter the houses through windows or unlocked doors. Many homeowners are exploring the functions and advantages of wireless home security solutions market nowadays. That’s because over 20% of the thieves were reported cutting the alarm wires before they entered the house.

As per the FBI, the dollar loss due to burglary in the United States alone is close to $2,185. Besides this, Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report reveals that about 28% of the home owners were present when the buglers entered the house.

Home security solutions market prospect

Today the home security solutions market consists of the security services, mechanical security as well as electromechanical solutions. The value of the security industry is believed to be over $ 249 billion. The segment in which major brands such as Robert Bosch GmbH, Control4 Corporation, Allegion PLC, and others are active accounts for over 12% of the total industry. The private residential category accounts for approximately 25%.

Home security solutions market sales across regions

North America is known for investing about twice as much on different emergency exit equipment as the Europeans. Moreover, North Europeans tend to spend approximately three times as much on advanced security locks for residences as North Americans. Besides this, the automatic doors are common in both the United States and other countries located in Europe. The demand for evacuation solution is equally high in the United States and Europe.

In addition, the technology paradigm is shifting from mechanical to advanced electromechanical. The smart locking category is significantly growing in the residential segment. The sales of home security solutions in South Korea have been boosted by the presence of prominent brands in the country. A wide range of home security solutions such as video security systems was launched in the United States, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, and Australia last year. But the lock industry still looks fragmented, worldwide. The home security solutions market across different nations is highly consolidated as many companies are family–owned.

Rise of DIY Home Security Solution Industry  

Today, there are many DIY options available in the market that can save the home owners a lot of cash and time. And unlike conventional security solutions, these advanced systems have several advanced features. Users can not only use the camera in the DIY home security kits to record the activities when a dog walker shows up but also gets an alert when carbon monoxide levels increases. Many of these kit manufacturers are known to provide a peace of mind by offering 24 –hour monitoring.  

One of the most popular home security product is the Piper NV. The device is basically a camera –based system that can easily and effectively connect to an Android or an iOS smartphone. Second is a motion –detecting, advanced night –vision camera called Canary. In addition, Panasonic consists of two weatherproof outdoor security cameras in its do-it-yourself kit. The product is available on panasconic.com and Amazon.com for approximately $299.

Watch what DIY home security products can offer

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Competitive landscape of the home security solution market

The market place especially in India is growing. In a recent incident, Snapdeal made a bold move by entering into an exclusive collaboration with Godrej Security Solutions. As a part of this deal, officials from Godrej Security Consulting Services would be visiting customers of Snapdeal and conduct a thorough need –assessment. The officials will further suggest different measure to make homes secure. The market shares of Nortek have been rising after the company announced a $2.8 billion merger. Melrose has finally acquired the company and gained an access to Nortek’s home security solutions as well as ventilation. Commenting on the recent merger Michael Clarke, the chief executive officer at Nortek said, "We are very pleased to have reached the proposed agreement with Melrose Industries, which represents a significant premium for our shareholders." He further explained, "We believe this transaction will be a positive for our employees and customers alike”. The agreement will create new opportunities for Godrej lockers too.

Home security gets better with technology advancements

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Where most customers buy their home security solution?

Home security products are out there, but unfortunately most customers are unaware of where to purchase these from. Approximately, 30% of the United States customers know where to purchase the smart home solutions or services from. This figure has often raised concern among the product developers. Customers have an access to several award-winning home smart security solutions through the global network and with the help of fully trained resellers. These authorized resellers will help customers select from the best of the products, whether it is for your home or business. 

Future Of World Smart Transportation Market

The epoch of the smart transportation market has been remarkable so far. It gets more engaging as its vendors venture to experiment with deep learning.

The smart transportation market experience

Remember those long ticketing queues, and those hours of wait before you could get to know the availability status alone? A couple of decades ago, automatic fare collection and ticket vending machines was the future plan. That future, is now. We live in a generation, where embedded devices in machines enable automatic fare collection and simultaneous data entry. Travel authorities can keep a constant check on mode and route of travel at multiple nodes. In addition, the authorities ensure that passengers are kept informed through appropriate guidance through the course of travel. With enough knowledge of moving traffic over route, a general estimation is drawn for the design of parking. A driver can confidently drive-in at a facility be rest assured of ample parking space, whereas, the facility owner has a detailed profile of who and what is passing through. An integrated supervision system and traffic management system adds convenience in today’s fast-moving lives. Collectively, the standalone installations feed inputs to multiple back-end computers in a distributed or central network. Once, big data analytics and deep learning arrives in the picture, the smart transportation industry exhibits immense future scope for getting even smarter.

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Smart transportation market: Need of the hour

An extraordinary degree of technological advancements has been incorporated in the transport segment over previous decade. Global smart transportation market has evolved significantly; from basic traffic and vehicular support to more complex integrated supervision systems. Advanced applications, rule the mindset of current population. An intelligent transport system (ITS) is what wins the trust of any consumer looking forward to logistic solutions. It is quite obvious, if one thinks of all extended support that accompanies an integrated traveling environment. It becomes a lot easier to know what is being transferred, in what amount, where all it has left its footprints, and the events that occur midway. Although, a vast amount of back support is required for developing these systems. The solution vendors range from small local players and mid-sized enterprises to huge corporate giants, which manage their services right across the face of the globe.

Right after the European Union (EU) declared its directives binding the European operations within a legal framework, entire global smart transportation market took the hint. It adapted accordingly, supporting the idea of a more efficient network that functions within a cleaner and safer environment. Objective of the EU directive match the requirements which led to the emergence of smart transportation market. A correct structure enhances the driving and traveling experience despite the booming increase in on-road vehicles. Regional administration offices are equipped with real-time data which helps them reduce the risks of traffic blocks. Automatic rerouting instructions are carried out, as soon as any sort of congestion is detected. Adherence to safety measures is easily monitored, effectively penalized or rewarded, and hence, consequently lower the numbers of accidents. The use of green fuels, as an alternative to the conventional, is encouraged under an intelligent transport system. Several concessions and privileges are provided to stimulate its adoption rates among the non-users.

Sensors in Consumer Electronics That Improve Security and Enhance Overall Interactive Experience

Consumer electronics are electronic equipment used in day-to-day life, such as flat screen TVs, smart phones, personal computers, laptops, and others. Sensors play a crucial role in efficient operation of these devices. Increasing demand of customers for superior quality, slim design, high energy efficiency, and other features have enforced manufacturers to incorporate sensors in consumer electronic devices. Various sensors, such as temperature sensor, speed sensor, electronic sensors, and others have been installed inside laptops, smartphones, game consoles, and other devices to provide enriching experience and convenience to users.

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Various sensors in smartphones:

There are various sensors used in smartphones that provide ease-of-use and security to users. The most basic sensor used in smartphone is accelerometer, which determines the orientation of device among three axes and rotates screen in portrait or landscape mode. Gyroscope also provides information about orientation, but with more precision than accelerometer. Few high-end devices have barometer, a sensor that measures atmospheric pressure and determines the distance above sea level, which in turn, results in enhanced GPS accuracy. A light sensor measures the brightness of ambient light and adjusts the brightness of display. A proximity sensor, which is placed at the earpiece of a phone, sends information to system that user is attending a call and display screen is turned off by system to save energy.

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Apple’s technology and acquisition of patents:

Touch ID on iPhone and iPad enables users to unlock devices with their fingerprints. A user places finger on Home Button and a sensor residing underneath that button determines whether fingerprint matches with stored data. Home Button is made up of sapphire crystal that protects sensor and acts as a lens. Sensor used in Touch ID scans the details of fingerprint with precision and creates a mathematical representation. Then, it compares this representation with stored data to identify the match and unlock the device. In this way, sensors can be used in consumer electronics for security purposes.

Apple has acquired 26 out of 31 original patents of Privaris, a biometric technology firm. These patents are related to fingerprint and touchscreen technology. The acquisition of patents aims to improve Touch ID on iPhone and iPad. Apple is planning to eliminate physical Home Button and introduce a virtual Home Button by creating a multi-touch display with the help of integrated fingerprint technology. As per the reports from CNN, one of the patents acquired from Privaris enable users to use fingerprint technology and touchscreen at the same time. A fingerprint scanner residing beneath the screen can scan the finger through phone’s display. In this way, Apple will be able to create an iPhone with an edge-to-edge screen. Furthermore, Apple uses biometric sensors for authentication to authorize credit card payments using its Apple Pay service.

'Smart' Devices At Home May Be Vulnerable To Hackers

Cyber security expert Etay Maor warns about the changing threats of cyber criminals. 

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SINGAPORE — When cyber-security expert Etay Maor tested a hacking tool in his home, he was surprised to discover 16 household appliances trying to connect to his Internet. Upon expanding the range to the nearby vicinity, it easily picked up more than 100 devices in the neighbourhood, from Bluetooth devices to fitness trackers, all connected to the Internet.

Innocuous as they may seem, these “smart” appliances could give cyber-criminals a playground to wreak havoc by taking control of your devices, or eventually provide a gateway into stealing personal information in your home system.

Mr Maor, 37, who is IBM Security’s executive adviser and who was in Singapore for a conference earlier this week, warned that with people being increasingly plugged in to smart devices, tech-savvy hackers could move beyond laptops and mobiles to infiltrate their networks.

“With companies offering more (services) like online banking, and with the Internet of Things, there’s going to be (greater) threats and attack vectors for criminals,” he told TODAY.

Earlier this month, the Cyber Security Agency here reported that Singapore was a “prime target” for cyber-criminals, with 16 waves of online attacks hitting the Republic’s shores since April last year. This comes even as there is an outcry over the move to disallow Internet surfing on civil servants’ work computers that are used to access the Government’s internal networks.

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Attacks may come in many forms, ranging from “overlay attacks” which replicate applications such as banking apps, to malware that records videos of users’ screens, Mr Maor said.

While the malware used is still largely the same, what has changed is how readily tools are available online, and cyber-criminals may get them “for sale or rent within seconds”, he added.

Attacks are also increasingly being customised to local contexts, where criminals design malware using the local language, or conduct intelligence operations to suss out how companies work.

Now, even ordinary individuals without specialised skills may band together to form a “collaborative and supportive community” to create sophisticated attacks. Remaining anonymous, they exchange tips freely, seek advice in underground forums, and rate each other’s skills, said Mr Maor.

Increasingly, these shady figures are going beyond targeting financial institutes to stealing personal data or records from healthcare organisations and insurance firms, he added.

Teen Girls Getting The Coolest Wearable Out There

JEWELBOTS are bracelets with programmable plastic flowers made for middle-school girls. They’re also the most interesting wearable which is seen this year.

Their creators describe them as “friendships bracelets that teach girls to code.” Compared to a gleaming Apple Watch or even an entry-level Fitbit, the Jewelbot hardware is primitive: a semi-translucent plastic flower charm that slides onto a hair tie–like elastic bracelet. The functionality is basic, too. The charms talk to each other over Bluetooth, and using a Jewelbots smartphone app, youngsters can program their charms to vibrate or light up when their friends are nearby. But despite their apparent simplicity, Jewelbots exhibit some truly fresh thinking about wearable technology. And with a little imagination, they hint at devices far more interesting than today’s computer watches.

Jewelbots was co-founded by Sara Chipps, Brooke Moreland, and Maria Paula Saba. Chipps is a developer and co-founder of Girl Develop It, a nonprofit that teaches women to code. Moreland is an entrepreneur with experience in high-tech fashion products, and Saba is a graduate of NYU’s ITP program, now studying Bluetooth and Arduino as a post-doc fellow. But before Jewelbots was a product, it was a shared ambition. More than any particular feature or function, the group wanted to build something that would get teenage girls interested in programming.

The idea took shape over several years. The group started by looking at products like MySpace and Minecraft that had successfully enticed kids to dabble in code. “We kind of wanted to reverse engineer that,” Chipps says. These examples were reassuring. They proved that if kids are genuinely interested in an outcome or effect—building a unique Minecraft structure, say, or tricking out their Myspace profiles—they won’t shy away from code as a means to achieve it.

Wearable Products Innovative Side That Make Lives Better

Wearable device manufacturers are seen expanding their reach to change how many carry out their day to-day chores. 

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Wearable electronic products that are found useful by medical practitioners and other sectors are proliferating among consumers worldwide. Aspiring wearable designers and intelligent component manufacturers are finally benefitting from the wearable technology market say researchers at the Allied Market Research (AMR). Furthermore, information technology, security companies as well as third party enterprises including health insurers are making huge profits from the recent developments in the wearable technology market.

Industry experts eyeing the size and share and demands in the sector emphasize that increasing consolidation, especially in the hardware segment will presage a higher emphasis on the development of wearable software. Besides this, the tech stocks are expected to be the robust performers in the low progressive and low inflation industry environment. According to industry experts at AMR, the wearable electronics industry is valued at $25.19 billion by 2020. Furthermore, this sector is anticipated to register a CAGR of 26% from 2014 to 2020. Moreover, the corresponding volume of the wearable electronics market would be about 142.6 million units, growing at a CAGR of 23% from 2014 to 2020.

Watch which wearable technology market players caught attention in 2016

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Future wearable technology market  

The wearable technology market is witnessing a significant growth worldwide, especially in the United States. If we are to believe the figures presented by officials at the Fidelity International the global shipment of the wearable products for the 1st quarter in the last year had reached approximately 11.4 million units, which was an increase of 200% compared to the stats in 2014. Of those 11.4 million about 7 million alone were advanced fitness bands, a segment which is anticipated to fuel the future growth of the wearable technology market. Researchers reveal that the development of these wearable products will continue and potentially overshadow both smartphones as well as the tablet in the next five to six years. ears.

For the wearable technology market to continue its growth, product designers will have to become more proficient and combine analytics, big data as well as cloud storage to deliver important insights to the customers at the right time. Besides this, gadgets will be designed by considering the user’s requirements. This process is termed as the human – centered design. Once made possible, the wearable products can soon emerge as an important part of our everyday life. The most significant wearable investment opportunities made so far are in data security, hardware, software, and others.

Wearable technology market is definitely making winds

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What is the future of healthcare wearables?

The wearables in the healthcare industry are definitely one of the big futures. Change is happening in the healthcare, said - Erik Jacobson, working with Accenture at the “IOTSWC15” event. One of the key enablers of the wearable technology in the healthcare sector is the customer expectations. The economic model that works both in the government systems and private systems. e.g. in the UK, the GP is getting high financial control over their trade or business; large B2B agreements between healthcare institutions and payers around operations etc. is fueling the growth of wearable products in the healthcare sector.

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Another focus area is value-based health, where a customer doesn’t just want to pay for the products but also for the end results. Wearables in healthcare can be considered as an endpoint of technology such as a smartphone. When we talk about wearables many will instantly think of a pair of smart glasses or probably a smart watch. But what’s next? Fitness bands are the obvious ones. The fitness market is incredibly mature attending to an array of fitness concerns. Next are the identity bands and the smart clothing or connected clothing which is the next stage of wearables.

Smart wireless necklace wearable music device:Necksound

Necksound is a necklace shaped high quality audio system with a modern and sporty design. Listen to your music while doing sport!

Necksound is a smart wireless wearable that revolutionizes the experience of listening to music and doing sport.

It is a necklace-shaped audio device made with hypoallergenic silicone, with a modern and sporty design that provides top quality sound. Listen to music or talk on the phone while doing any type of physical activity without the need for headphones. Necksound is the perfect wearable to enjoy your private soundscape without being isolated from the world that surrounds you.

Unlike other conventional headphones and hands-free devices, Necksound offers a different, safer and functional alternative. It’s the only device of its kind that combines all essential features.

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Digital Signage Hits The Road To Save Lives

Digital signage is taking a turn for the safety lane in an innovative new concept that would see semi trucks providing a heads-up on oncoming traffic to following drivers.

Display technology from Samsung recently was used in a prototype "Safety Truck" aimed at preventing traffic accidents and fatalities from drivers trying to overtake and pass semitractor-trailers in Argentina. The two-by-two video wall mounted to the back of a trailer showed drivers behind the truck what was in front of the truck and any oncoming traffic.

The global display provider wrote about the project in its blog:

Have you ever found yourself driving behind a semitrailer truck? If you're on a single-lane highway or road, it can be a nightmare. Even though the truck is driving relatively slowly, you cannot overtake it due to its size, and because you cannot see what is happening in front of the truck.

However, Samsung has developed a solution that may make this problem a thing of the past.Argentina's statistics on traffic accidents are among the highest in the world, with most of these accidents occurring on two-lane roads and particularly in situations of overtaking. With this in mind, Samsung developed a technology for trucks that seeks to enrich the lives of people through innovation. But more than that, this time the goal is more ambitious: to save lives.

How does it work?

The Safety Truck consists of a wireless camera attached to the front of the truck, which is connected to a video wall made out of four exterior monitors located on the back of the truck. The monitors give drivers behind the truck a view of what is going on ahead, even in the dark of night.

This allows drivers to have a better view when deciding whether it is safe to overtake. Another advantage of the Safety Truck is that it may reduce the risk of accidents caused by sudden braking or animals crossing the road.

Samsung led the prototype development by providing large format display samples, and conducted a test with a local B2B client 

Smart Transportation Ideas Reshaping Your Life

Surge Pricing for Parking Meters

Cheap downtown parking in Philly is both popular and insidious: The glut of circling drivers searching for $2-an-hour street spots means slower traffic, more road rage and worse air quality. The Parking Authority should take a page from the Uber playbook — as San Francisco and Pittsburgh have — and bump prices substantially, to around $7 for prime spots at peak times. This would change the supply/demand dynamic, leading to more open spaces. “Prices should be low enough not to discourage people who are coming in to go to a restaurant or shop, but high enough to discourage people from feeding the meter all day,” offers Rina Cutler, senior director at Amtrak and Michael Nutter’s former deputy mayor for transportation. For those all-day parkers? Off-street parking (a.k.a. garages and lots) with set half-day and day rates will take on a whole new luster.

Source:http://www.phillymag.com/citified/2016/02/14/philadelphia-transit-walkability/