The Market for Sensors in the Internet-of-Things Market: 2013-to-2020

• Publication date: February 2013

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is essentially all about sensors without which it cannot achieve its promised functionality. For this reason, NanoMarkets believes that IoT’s arrival will mean a surge in demand for sensors of many kinds. Indeed, IoT could mean a remaking of the sensor industry, generating hundreds of new opportunities for Internet-connected sensors. While the sensor sector has seen some fascinating new technologies emerge in the...

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is essentially all about sensors without which it cannot achieve its promised functionality. For this reason, NanoMarkets believes that IoT’s arrival will mean a surge in demand for sensors of many kinds. Indeed, IoT could mean a remaking of the sensor industry, generating hundreds of new opportunities for Internet-connected sensors. While the sensor sector has seen some fascinating new technologies emerge in the past decade, this is the first time we are seeing a mass market emerge for novel sensor types.

With all this in mind, NanoMarkets is publishing this report to identify and quantify where the markets for IoT sensors will be found over the next eight years. Coverage is of six types of sensor: light, heat, touch/pressure, motion, acoustic and gas/chemical. And the report focuses on six applications areas that NanoMarkets believes are key to the rapid growth in revenues that are expected in the IoT sensor business. These applications are: home automation, commercial building automation, media and gaming, healthcare, the “Industrial Internet, and transportation.

This report contains granular eight-year forecasts of all of these applications with breakouts of the kinds of sensors and hubs used in each and in both volume and value terms. There is also a revenue forecast by geography. In addition, the reader of this report will learn (1) how the IoT will restructure the sensor industry and (2) where the new opportunities will emerge as legacy sensor systems are connected to the Internet and new protocols and requirements for connectivity and security appear. Where appropriate, this report discusses the strategies and products of firms that are already hooked into the opportunities that IoT sensors present.

NanoMarkets believes that this report will be essential reading for marketing and business development executives in the sensor, smart materials, data communications and automation sectors, as well as investors seeking profitable new directions in the Internet-of-Things.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

E.1 The Sensor Industry Will Be Renewed by the IoT
E.2 Eight-Year Forecasts of IoT Sensors
E.3 Home Automation Opportunities
E.4 Commercial Building Automation
E.5 Media and Gaming
E.6 Healthcare
E.7 The “Industrial Internet"
E.8 Transportation and Logistics

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Overview to Report
1.1.1 Software: The Key to the IOT Sensor Business
1.1.2 Sensor Firms: What is to be Done?
1.1.3 Service Firms: Telcos and the Others
1.1.4 Into the Future
1.2 Objective and Scope of this Report
1.3 Methodology of Report

CHAPTER TWO: HOW THE INTERNET-OF-THINGS WILL RESHAPE THE SENSOR INDUSTRY

2.1 Standard, Gateways and Sensors
2.1.1 Next Steps
2.1.2 Go To Market Strategy
2.1.3 Gateways and Connectivity for Sensors
2.1.4 Impact on Protocols and Addressability
2.1.5. Data Lessons for the IoT Sensor Industry from Mobile
2.2 In Search of a Killer App for Sensors in the Internet of Things
2.2.1 Infrastructure Issues: Monetizing the IoT Infrastructure with Sensors
2.2.2 An Opportunity Analysis
2.3.3 Early Successes with IoT Sensors
2.3.4 Legacy Devices and Overlays
2.4 Sensors, Security and Market Opportunities
2.4.1 Sensor Design and Security
2.4.2 Protocols and Cryptography Evolution
2.4.3 Sensor Network and Gateway Security
2.4.4 Mobile Sensor Security Deployment
2.4 Key Points in this Chapter

CHAPTER THREE: EIGHT-YEAR MARKET FORECASTS FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS

3.1 Forecasting Methodology
3.1.1 Data Sources
3.1.2 Scope of Forecasts
3.1.3 Economic and Geographic Assumptions
3.1.4 Alternative Scenarios
3.2 Internet-of-Things in Home Automation
3.2.1 Current and Future Needs for IoT Sensors
3.2.2 Eight-Year Forecasts of IoT Sensors for Home Automation by Type
3.3 Internet of Things in Commercial Buildings
3.3.1 Current and Future Needs for IoT Sensors
3.3.2 Eight-Year Forecasts of IoT Sensors for Commercial Buildings
3.4 Internet-of-Things for Media and Gaming
3.4.1 Current and Future Needs for IoT Sensors
3.4.2 Eight-Year Forecasts of IoT Sensors for Media and Gaming
3.5 Internet-of-Things in Healthcare
3.5.1 Current and Future Needs for IoT Sensors in Healthcare
3.5.2 Mobile Services and Open Data Integration in Healthcare
3.5.3 Eight-Year Forecasts of IoT Sensors for Healthcare
3.6 Internet-of-Things in the Industrial Internet
3.6.1 Current and Future Needs for IoT Sensors in the Industrial Internet
3.6.2 Eight-Year Forecasts of Sensors of IoT Sensors for the Industrial Internet
3.7 Internet of Things in Transportation/Logistics
3.7.1 Current and Future Needs for IoT Sensors in Transportation/Logistics
3.7.2 Eight-Year Forecasts of Sensors of IoT Sensors in Transportation/Logistics
3.8 Key Points in this Chapter

CHAPTER FOUR: SUMMARY OF FORECASTS OF SENSORS FOR THE INTERNET-OF-THINGS

4.1 Eight-Year Forecast of Revenues from IoT Sensors and Hubs by Application
4.2 Eight-Year Forecast of Revenues from IoT Sensors and Hubs by Technology
4.3 Eight-Year Forecast of Revenues from IoT sensors and Hubs by Geographical Region
4.3.1 Snapshots of Important Emerging Markets: Brazil and China
4.4 Key Points in this Chapter