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Global smart grid investment is likely to grow rapidly. By 2025, a complete transformation to a smarter grid is unlikely but the process would have gained pace with major changes underway in grid automation, demand-side management, and Big Data analytics. Revenue growth will be the fastest in Europe. Demand response and advanced metering infrastruc...

Healthcare industry challenges including aging populations, rising incidence of chronic diseases, and the need to manage care costs better are necessitating the adoption of innovative care delivery models. While healthcare providers and consumers are displaying a perceivable behavior shift in the way they interact with health technologies, vendors ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a rapidly growing technology that includes rapid prototyping and three-dimensional (3D) printing. These technologies are playing a crucial role in transforming industries such as automotive, aerospace, medical, fashion and food industry. Additive manufacturing is mainly used for more efficient, less time consuming and...

Gesture and speech recognition technologies, a couple of years back were deemed futuristic, but recent advances in aiding software and hardware technologies have enabled the successful integration of speech and gesture into everyday appliances. Smarter computing technologies, which have high speed, robust performance, and high memory capacity are a...

Silicon-based power electronic device, the most popular and well established material technology is witnessing constant improvements with regard to power handling capability. However with silicon subjected to certain theoretical limitations, wide bandgap semiconductor materials holds promise to deliver high efficiency leading to savings in energy. ...

The research service assesses the key stakeholder activities across the near field communication (NFC) value chain. Innovations and trends pertaining to stakeholders including hardware providers, handset manufacturers, application providers, trusted service management providers, and mobile network operators are assessed. The influence of these stak...

AMI (advanced metering infrastructure) investment leads to significant organisational, technological, and commercial changes because utilities must embrace new business models to better amortise the investments. Smart metering supports customer-centric utility and the concept of empowering customers as enablers for smart energy. However, most utili...

This research services provides insights into wireless charging charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in passenger cars, and public transportation systems. Wireless charging is expected to augment plug-in wireless charging and help accelerate the establishment of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. It is likely to emerge as a key...