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Global Telecoms - Smart Grids and M2M
Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd, August 2012, Pages: 118
Publication Overview
This report provides a valuable overview of the important emerging sectors of smart grids and M2M which will form the basis of our smart communities of the future. It explores trends and developments and provides key global statistics and insights. Please note, for information on Smart Societies and Artificial Intelligence, please see separate BuddeComm annual publication (also available link).
Subjects include:
- Key insights and statistics on global smart grid development;
- Key insights and statistics on global smart meter market;
- Insights into smart grids and the energy industry;
- Insights into the consumer issues surrounding smart grids and meters;
- Key insight and statistics on M2M and the IoT;
- The role of fast broadband;
- Mobile broadband and the IoT insights;
- M2M and opportunities for the telcos;
- Case study on USA – a smart grid leader.
Key developments:
In mid 2012 an M2M alliance between seven major telcos demonstrated the growing importance of this sector to the future. Following this, a group of standardisation organisations also joined together to form OneM2M, an initiative which aims to develop common specifications.
This report is essential reading for those needing high level strategic information, insights and key developments on the global smart grid and M2M sectors.
1. Smart Grids Insights and Developments
1.1 Smart Grids – An Important Infrastructure
1.1.1 A concept, not a technology
1.1.2 Smart grid vision
1.1.3 Smart grid market
1.1.4 Government policies and regulations
1.1.5 Smart energy
1.1.6 Smart grids, smart infrastructure, smart buildings and smart cities
1.1.7 Opportunities for the smart infrastructure
1.2 Smart Meters
1.2.1 Market summary
1.2.2 Smart meters and consumer issues
1.2.3 Smart meters and the utilities
1.2.4 Other smart meter opportunities
1.3 Smart Grids and the Energy Industry
1.3.1 Electricity – Telcoms: market comparison
1.3.2 Infrastructure
1.3.3 What makes a smart device smart?
1.3.4 Market and industry dynamics
1.3.5 Keys to success
1.3.6 Industry collaboration
1.3.7 Key aim - Renewables
1.3.8 Renewables should drive the energy agenda
1.3.9 Geo-political power based on clean energy
1.3.10 No investments without an ETS
1.3.11 Energy saving not in the interest of the owners of the retailers
1.3.12 Disruptive energy
1.3.13 Conclusion: Energy remains cheap
1.4 Smart Grids and Consumer Issues
1.4.1 Customers needs to become central
1.4.2 Brief case study: BGE smart grid services
1.4.3 Smart appliances
2. Machine-to-Machine (M2M) – A Key Global Trend
2.1 M2M and The Internet of Things (IoT)
2.1.1 ‘Things'
2.1.2 From SCaDa to IoT
2.1.3 Sensors
2.1.4 Sensor applications for a smarter world
2.1.5 RFID
2.1.6 Change in services driven by sensing and monitoring information
2.1.7 Who will dominate the IoT market?
2.1.8 Building smart communities and smart countries
2.1.9 Stage one – infrastructure
2.1.10 Stage two – trans-sector policies
2.1.11 Stage three – the business game-changer
2.1.12 Application examples
2.1.13 Staggering IoT predictions
2.2 Fast Broadband and the IoT
2.2.1 Introduction
2.2.2 Economic and social multiplier effects
2.2.3 Why did we get it so wrong in the first place?
2.2.4 Smart policies will assist in budget-cutting
2.2.5 Differences between fast broadband approaches
2.2.6 Trans-sector requires intelligent approach towards measurement
2.2.7 Massive increase in efficiency, productivity and customer satisfaction
2.2.8 Privacy is paramount
2.2.9 Conclusion: a market of nine billion people
2.3 Mobile Broadband and IoT
2.3.1 Introduction
2.3.2 The infrastructure
2.3.3 Trans-sector policies
2.3.4 The business game-changer
2.3.5 Key technical developments
2.3.6 Smart cities and smart countries
2.4 M2M - Presenting Opportunities for the Telcos
2.4.1 Telecoms market is transforming but the telcos are not
2.4.2 Telcos lost the internet battle
2.4.3 Telcos also lost the mobile content battle
2.4.4 Next on the chopping block – the infrastructure
2.4.5 So what is next for the telcos?
2.4.6 IoT the next frontier
2.4.7 Is bandwidth the new growth market for the telcos?
2.4.8 Conclusion
3. Case Study - USA
3.1 USA - A Smart Grid Leader
3.1.1 Introduction
3.1.2 Utilities Executive Study
3.1.3 Smart Grid costs massive but outweighed by benefits
3.1.4 Utility Executives' vision for the new decade
3.1.5 Consumer cents for smart grid
3.1.6 DSM, Energy Storage & Distributed Generation
3.1.7 Market Reaches over 400M Connected Devices by 2016
3.1.8 Houston pilot project on home energy use
3.1.9 Informed consumers show strong support of smart grids
3.1.10 Smart Meter Revenues
3.1.11 U.S. Smart Meter installation growth
3.1.12 The real concern about smart meters
4. Glossary of Abbreviations
Table 1 – Value of the global smart grid market – 2012 - 2016
Table 2 – Worldwide smart meter shipments – 2012; 2016
Table 3 - Annual growth renewable energy (worldwide) - 2010
Table 4 – Worldwide connected devices
Table 5 – Worldwide smartphone operating systems by market share – 2007 – 2010; Q3 2011
Table 6 – Top ten carriers worldwide by revenue – 2010; 2011
Table 7 – Bharti Airtel mobile ARPU – 2004 - 2005; 2007 - 2011
Table 8 – Summary of Estimated Cost and Benefits of the Smart Grid
Chart 1 –Worldwide market share of M2M connections – 2011; 2020
Exhibit 1 – Smart Grid applications
Exhibit 2 – Challenges Smart Grids can address
Exhibit 3 - International Smart Grid Action Network
Exhibit 4 – The cost of smart meters
Exhibit 5 – Examples of leading smart meter manufacturers
Exhibit 6 – Smart meter deployment example
Exhibit 7 – Smart grids for distributed renewables
Exhibit 8 – Item-level RFID use
Exhibit 9 – RFID spectrum frequencies and application examples
Exhibit 10 – Cows and the IoT
Exhibit 11 – Smart shopping
Exhibit 12 – Lifetime customer relationships
Exhibit 13 – Many Eyes – e-science web site example
Exhibit 14 – GigaPort3
Exhibit 15 – Key insights towards FttH and Trans-sector strategy
Exhibit 16 – Approximate data rates for selected services on mobile devices
Exhibit 17 – Digital Dividend
Exhibit 18 – Digital economy – key developments
Exhibit 19 – Apple iPhone and Apple iTunes
Exhibit 20 – Major shareholders in Bharti Airtel – April 2011
Important Sectors of the Future
BuddeComm's annual publication Global Telecoms – Smart Grids and M2M, provides the key global insights and statistics for these emerging and increasingly important sectors of the future.
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) also referred to as the Internet of Things is going to be a real game-changer. It will transform every single sector of society and the economy and it will be out of this environment that new businesses – and indeed new industries – will be born. Many ICT companies are increasing their presence in countries that either have or are developing high-speed infrastructure for this very reason.
A key element to the future of M2M is the development of smart grids. The infrastructure which is being built offers a range of features such as ubiquitousness, affordability, low latency, high speed and high capacity. It will link – apart from individual people – millions of devices, such as sensors, that will enable us to manage our environment, traffic, infrastructures, and our society as a whole much more efficiently and effectively.
The telcos have an opportunity to show leadership here, but this could equally become another internet-like development, driven by users and the internet industry. The development of M2M and the IoT is the next inflection point after connecting homes (fixed lines) and people (mobile). It will increase telecoms connections to billions of devices.
What are the opportunities for the telcos in this new environment? Perhaps the best option is for them to concentrate on the enormous demand for bandwidth. This needs to be managed, moved around the networks and made available at the edges, using converging wireless and fixed high-speed broadband infrastructure. M2M requires massive data processing through data centres and server farms, linked to an enormous requirement for real-time analytics.
As the discussion continues about the need for intelligent networks and ‘smarts' in virtually everything; it becomes obvious that we must move away from the decision-making processes that have brought us to the point of financial crisis, environmental crisis and to the monopolistic and dogmatic regimes that have developed in the telecoms sector. Around the world debates are heating up in the search for new and better ways to find solutions for these crises. There is more or less universal agreement that a linear continuation of the past will lead to more problems and, eventually, utter chaos and destruction.
Market Highlights
- Telemetry applications based on M2M are expected to boom and are integral to the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) environment.
- RFID also has a promising future in Machine-to-Machine transmission applications/IoT and is already in widespread use around the world.
- Smart is now well and truly on the agenda of most electricity companies, and indeed on many of their governments' political agendas. 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, renewable energy, 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.
- While in developed markets Fibre-to-the-Home will be the leading infrastructure force behind this economic and social transformation, mobile broadband will deliver these changes in the developing world. Nobody needs to miss out on these benefits as long as governments take a leadership role both in relation to infrastructure developments and in developing trans-sector policies for healthcare, education, smart grids, transport and public safety - in short developing smart communities.
- It is essential that as smart grids develop; the social and economic benefits are clearly spelt out and as such build a case for consumer support.
Data in this report is the latest available at the time of preparation and may not be for the current year.
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