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Brazils natural gas market is in the midst of profound transformation driven by recent changes in market design and the promulgation of a new regulatory framework. Although regulatory gaps and uncertainties about how the market will develop persist, national and international players are cautiously initiating strategic moves to take advantage of th...

Li-Fi and optical camera communications (OCC) are emerging light communication technologies that have gained traction in the past few years in indoor and outdoor wireless communications. Li-Fi is a networked, bi-directional wireless communication technology that uses light to transmit/receive massive amounts of data at higher speeds for short-range...

29 Jul 2021  |  North America

Top 50 Companies Accelerating Digitalization in the Global Homes and Buildings Industry

AI-enabled Solutions that Support Healthy Building Services Will Accelerate Adoption of Digital Offerings

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Digital transformation is gaining momentum in the post-COVID-19 environment; customers are looking for solutions that would cut a buildings operational expenditure and are being offered through flexible payment models that reduce the capital expenditure burden. Frost & Sullivan carried out an extensive and exhaustive technology benchmarking analysi...

The COVID-19 pandemic impact on the North American HVAC market was relatively muted than expected. While the market was forecast to slump by 6% in 2020, the post-Q2 2020 rebound helped HVAC manufacturers get their business back on track. Amid the government change in the United States and the adoption of favorable climate change regulations and pro...

Facilities management is somewhat underdeveloped in Italy and the outsourced market is much smaller than other European countries with similar GDP and population size, such as the UK and France. Growth has been modest but steady in recent years, but the recovery from COVID-19 will see an accelerated CAGR for the period 2020 to 2025. Meanwhile, w...

13 Jul 2021  |  North America

Growth Opportunities in the Global Irrigation Water Solutions Market

Water Scarcity and the Pressure to Feed an Increasing Population are Driving Digital Transformation

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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the global population will reach 10 billion by 2050, dramatically affecting agricultural demand and related water consumption. More efficient irrigation automation, control, and monitoring solutions will take on the long-term challenge of water scarcity in the world, espe...

13 Jul 2021  |  Asia Pacific

Southeast Asia Facilities Management Emerging Business Models and Growth Opportunities

Digitally-Led Business Models Create New Opportunities in Service Advancements

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COVID-19 severely affects all facilities management (FM) end-user segments. The Southeast Asian FM market revenue declined by 3.7% in 2020 due to the pandemic. As the market gradually recovers over the forecast period, competition is expected to intensify and accelerate the need for innovation in FM services. FM market participants in Southeast Asi...

The New Zealand (NZ) facilities management (FM) market is seeing relatively stable growth, despite the pandemic-induced disruption in 2020. The high awareness of FM services and active participation of end users, coupled with the growing awareness of energy efficiency and the existing building stock in the country, has been responsible for the stab...

District cooling (DC) is the cooling equivalent of district heating. This process involves supplying chilled water (usually between 4 and 8 degrees Celsius) from a central plant to multiple buildings via insulated underground pipes. The cooled water is then used to chill the indoor air in buildings before being sent back to the central plant to be ...