China Smart Home Industry Prospects and Investment Strategy Report, 2013-2017

With Forward’s the long-term tracking and collecting market data of smart home industry, we roundly and accurately analyze the structure system for you from the view of mastering the whole industry. This report mainly analyzes the following aspects: development progress of China smart home industry; policy environment of smart home industry; technology application condition and development trend of smart home industry; overall development status of smart home market; market segmentation condition of smart home industry; major corporations’ operational condition of smart home industry; investment condition of smart home industry. Meanwhile, together with the comprehensive and detailed market data which is accumulated for 5 years, Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of smart home industry, so as to win advantages from competition!

The concept of smart home starts early but without any detailed building cases until in 1984, the United Techno1ogies Building System applies the concept of building equipment information and integration in the City Place Building, Hartford City, Connecticut, USA. It is the first smart building in the world. And since then the smart home come into our life.

Presently, the smart home is usually defined as by using computers, networks and integrated wiring technology to combine all home life relevant sub-systems into a system through home information management platform. In detail that is establishing a communication network at home to provide necessary path for family information. Controlling by family network system, the household and equipment controlling and monitoring is available through the implementation of relevant hardware and executing agency. Besides, all the household facilities need a network platform to communicate with the external and meet the need of long-range control, monitor and information exchange. And it comes to the final target of satisfying people’s need of safety, comfort, convenience and environmental protection.

The “12th five years” plan expressly proposes that more supports for the industries which match the requirements of energy saving, environmental protection, and industry transformation will be provided during the “12th five years” period. Generally speaking, the trend of smart home industry in China is fine. It mainly concentrates in the eastern coastal cities and national first-tier cities while it is relatively blank in the western China. The development among different areas is imbalanced. After the 2010 Shanghai Expo, many leading corporations of IT, household appliances, telecom, and security industry at home and abroad begin to involve in the smart home industry in China. The Shanghai Expo virtually brings a large-scale marketing and a prospects forest for the smart home industry in China. Meanwhile, the bandwidth of smart home will have a fundamental breakthrough along with the following reasons: the internet of things as a state strategy, the tri-network integration as the driving force of national economic development, and the popularization of 3G networks. The flourishing smart home products and technology leads to different product grades (low, middle and high) in the smart home market. The smart home industry in China begins to develop rapidly. Still, comparing with the industry oversea, it is in the starting stage in China. With an enormous market in China, the industry grows with an annual growth rate of about 19.8%. And it is predicted that the output value will reach 124 billion Yuan in 2015.

However, challenges for the smart home enterprises cannot be ignored. It is the most direct challenge for the corporations to achieve the following targets in the starting stage: to learn the advancing technology oversea and strengthen independent R&D level; to seize commercial opportunities; to explore industry customers by project model; to guide consumers by sample projects.

With Forward’s the long-term tracking and collecting market data of smart home industry, we roundly and accurately analyze the structure system for you from the view of mastering the whole industry. This report mainly analyzes the following aspects: development progress of China smart home industry; policy environment of smart home industry; technology application condition and development trend of smart home industry; overall development status of smart home market; market segmentation condition of smart home industry; major corporations’ operational condition of smart home industry; investment condition of smart home industry. Meanwhile, together with the comprehensive and detailed market data which is accumulated for 5 years, Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of smart home industry, so as to win advantages from competition!

Major characteristics of this report are forward-looking and timeliness. Base on the forward-looking analysis of massive research data, we further analyze the development scale and competitive landscape of smart home industry. Along with the industry development route and our practical experience, we analyze and predict the future development prospect of smart home industry. This report is of a high value for smart home corporations and investment corporations to accurately know the latest industry development trend, and obtain market opportunities and determine an insightful operation strategy and development direction.

Here, we’d like to express our sincere gratitude to National Statistics Bureau of China, International Information Institute, National Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, National Tsing Hua University Library, Institute of Market Economy of the State Council Development Research Center, and Beijing Qinghua Forward Market Research Center, etc. Thank you so much!

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Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research Center
Research Team of Smart Home Industry