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Wireless Sensor Networks”Market and Technology Trends

Published by: Practel, Inc.

Published: Mar. 1, 2009


Table of Contents


1.0 Introduction

1.1 General

1.2 Developments

1.3 Scope

1.4 Structure

1.5 Research Methodology

1.6 Target Audience

2.0 UWB: Technology and Market Specifics

2.1 General

2.2 Benefits and Obstacles

2.3 Definition

2.3.1 Rates

2.4 Spectrum Allocation

2.4.1 Choices

2.5 Major Features

2.6 Standards and Regulations

2.6.1 Multiband OFDM

2.6.2 DS-UWB

2.6.3 Comparison

2.6.4 Standards Bodies

2.6.5 FCC and ETSI

2.6.6 ECMA International

2.6.7 European Regulators

2.6.8 Comparison

2.6.8.1 Impulse Radio- Pulse Link, Time Domain

2.6.8.2 DS-CDMA - Motorola and other

2.6.8.3 Multi-Band OFDM (FH) - MBOA

2.7 Applications

2.7.1 General

2.7.2 Home Security-UGS

2.7.3 Phones

2.7.4 RFID

2.7.5 Communications and Imaging

2.7.6 WPAN

2.7.7 Imaging systems

2.7.8 Ranging

2.7.9 Public Safety

2.8 WSN and UWB

2.8.1 General

2.8.2 UWB Role

2.8.2.1 UWB-structured WSN

2.8.2.2 Features

2.9 Issues

2.9.1 Comments

2.10 Applications Summary

2.11 UWB Market

2.11.1 General

2.11.1.1 Major Segments

2.11.2 Forecast

2.12 Industry: UWB and WSN

Aether Wire & Location (localization sensors)

Alereon (chipsets)

Artimi (merge with Staccato -November 2008)

BBN (radio, first responders)

Belkin

Camero (radar, equipment for first responders)

Focus Enhancement (chipsets)-Filed for Bankruptcy in 2009

Fujitsu Components (antenna, filter)

General Atomics (chipsets)

Intel

Multispectral (RFID and others)

Parco (RFID-Health Care)

Pulse~ Link (chipsets)

Staccato (chipsets)

Time Domain (chipsets-fusion of communications & radar)

Tzero (chipsets)-Closed doors in 2009

Ubisense (RFID-tracking)

Wisair (chipsets)

3.0 ZigBee

3.1 General

3.2 Technology

3.2.1 Major Features

3.2.2 Device Types

3.2.3 Protocol Stack

3.2.3.1 Physical and MAC Layers - IEEE802.15.4

3.2.3.1.1 Frame

3.2.3.2 Upper Layers

3.2.3.2.1 Interoperability

3.2.3.2.2 Security

3.2.4 Platform Considerations

3.2.4.1 Battery Life

3.2.5 ZigBee Technology Benefits and Limitations

3.3 Standardization Process

3.3.1 ZigBee Alliance

3.3.1.1 Objectives

3.3.2 802.15.4- ZigBee Basis

3.3.2.1 IEEE 802.15.4 Radio

3.3.2.2 Application Specifics

3.4 Applications

3.4.1 General

3.4.2 Home

3.4.2.1 PC

3.4.3 Manufacturing

3.4.4 WSN and ZigBee

3.4.4.1 General

3.4.4.2 ZigBee Role

3.4.4.3 ZigBee-structured WSN

3.5. Market

3.5.1 Expectations

3.5.2 Segments

3.5.3 Forecast

3.6 Industry

Airbee (Software)

Amber (RF Systems)

Arch Rock (WSN-UGS-ZigBee)

Atmel (Chipsets)

Chipcon -TI (Chipsets)

Cirronet-RFM (Modules)

Crossbow (WSN, motes)

Digi (Radio)

Duolog (Transceivers)

Ember (Chipsets)

Falcom (Modules)

GreenPeak

Helicomm (Modules)

Jennic (Chipsets-Modules)

Freescale (Chipsets)

MeshNetics (Modules)

Moteiv- Sentilla (Modules, SW)

Nanotron (Chipsets)

Oki (Chipsets)

Renesas (Platforms)

Silicon Laboratories (Chipsets, Modules)

Synapse

Telegesis (Integrator)

4.0 Competition Landscape

4.1 Climate of Competition

4.1.1 Bluetooth and ZigBee

4.1.1.1 Air Interface

4.1.1.2 Battery Drain

4.1.1.3 Timing Considerations

5.0 UGS Technology-Specifics and Applications

5.1 Smart Sensor Structure

5.1.1 Classification - UGS

5.1.2 Details

5.1.2.1 WSN-UGS

5.1.2.2 Requirements

5.2 Networking

5.2.1 Features of Mesh Structures

5.2.2 Benefits and Limitations

5.2.3 WSN-UGS: Examples

5.3 UGS Functioning

5.3.1 Parameters and Requirements

5.3.2 Details

5.3.2.1 Examples Of Functioning

5.3.3 Future Combat Systems

5.3.3.1 Subgroups

5.3.3.1.1 Tactical Subgroup

5.3.3.1.2 Urban/MOUT Advanced Sensor Systems

5.3.4 Intelligent Munitions System (IMS)

5.4 Standardization: IEEE 1451

5.4.1 General

5.4.2 Family

5.4.3 Description

5.5 Applications

5.5.1 General

5.5.2 Applications Examples

5.5.2.1 Military Example: REMBASS Family

5.5.2.2 Military: Future

5.6 Challenges

5.7 Market Characteristics

5.7.1 General

5.7.2 Market Estimate

5.7.3 Trends

5.8 UGS Vendors

BAE Systems

BBN

Crossbow (WSN)

Crane (WSN-ZigBee)

Dust Networks (USG-Mesh)

Elta

Exensor

Intel (Chipsets)

Freescale (sensors)

Harris (UGS)

IWT (Mesh)

L3 (UGS)

McQ (UGS)

MeshDynamics (Mesh)

Millennial Net (Mesh-UGS)

Moteiv-Sentilla (WSN)

MeshNetics-Atmel (WSN Software)

Newtrax (WSN-mesh, UGS)

Nelco

NorthropGrumman (UGS)

Octave Technologies (SW, WSN)

Qual-Tron

Rheinmetall (UGS)

Selex (UGS)

Sensicast (WSN)

Smart Sensor Systems

Strix (Mesh)

Telonics

TextRon (UGS)

Thales (UGS)

Trident (UGS-UWB)

Zeltech

6.0 Modern Trends : WSN Development

6.1 Goals

6.2 Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN)

6.2.1 Definition

6.2.2 Task

6.2.3 Comparison

6.2.4 Standardization Activity

6.2.4.1 ITU-T

6.2.4.2 ISO

6.3 IETF and IP/WSN

6.3.1 Major Projects

6.3.1.1 6LoWPAN WG

6.3.1.1.1 6LoWPAN Development

6.3.1.1.2 NanoStack

6.3.1.1.3 Details

6.3.1.2 ROLL WG

6.4 Major Characteristics of IP-USN

6.5 IPSO Alliance (IP for Smart Objects)

6.6 USN Applications

6.6.1 Climate Change

6.6.2 Examples

6.6.3 Green Data Centers-USN Application

6.6.3.1 Self-powered Elements

6.7 Vendors

AmbioSystems

Arch Rock

EnOcean

Grape Networks

GreenPeak

GreyStone

JDL

Perpetua

Rittal

SensorDinamics

Sensinode

Sentilla

Spinwave

TI

Virtual Extension

7.0 Conclusions

Attachment: USN Project-Example




Figure 1: UWB Spectrum

Figure 2: OFDM Frequency Segments

Figure 3: DS-UWB Spectrum Characteristics

Figure 4: Spectrum Regulations-UWB

Figure 5: Spectrum Illustration

Figure 6: WSN-UGS and UBW

Figure 7: Market Estimate: UWB Circuitry ($B)

Figure 8: Market Estimate: UWB IC Shipments (Unit M)

Figure 9: Estimate of UWB Market - Communications Applications ($B)

Figure 10: UWB IC-WSN-UGS Market Segment ($M)

Figure 11: ZigBee Protocol Stack

Figure 12: Estimate: ZigBee Chipsets Market Worlwide ($M)

Figure 13: ZigBee Market Segmentation (2008)

Figure 14: ZigBee Market Segmentation (2013)

Figure 15: Two Groups

Figure 16: UGS-Functions

Figure 17: UGS Technologies

Figure 18: Distribution Factor

Figure 19: WSN-UGS Node

Figure 20: Market Estimate- WSN Nodes Sales ($B)

Figure 21: Market Estimate-WSN Node Sales (M Units)

Figure 22: Market Estimate: UGS Nodes Sale ($M)

Figure 23: Market Estimate-UGS Nodes Sale (M Units)

Figure 24: UGS Market Geographical Segmentation

Figure 25: UGS Network Sizing

Figure 26: Examples-USN Functions




Table 1: Comparison: DS-UWB and MB-OFDM

Table 2: FCC Emission Limits

Table 3: Comparison

Table 4: UWB Applications: Summary

Table 5: UWB Market Segments

Table 6: ZigBee Parameters

Table 7: Comparison

Table 8: UGS Node-Price Components



Abstract

Research Methodology

Considerable research was done using the Internet. Information from various Web sites was studied and analyzed; evaluation of publicly available marketing and technical publications was also conducted. Telephone conversations and interviews were held with industry analysts, technical experts and executives. In addition to these interviews and primary research, secondary sources were used to develop a more complete mosaic of the market landscape, including industry and trade publications, conferences and seminars.

The overriding objective throughout the work has been to provide valid and relevant information. This has led to a continual review and update of the information content.

Target Audience

This report provides the WSN technologies and markets analysis and assessments; it concentrates on the recent developmental trends. The report is useful for service providers, retail operators, vendors, network operators and managers, investors and end users seeking to gain a deeper understanding of WSN-based structures opportunities and barriers.

For systems integrators, the report provides an analysis and assessment of competing products currently available as well as an estimation of the overall opportunities in the coming years. The end users can gain a more thorough understanding of product’s market and capabilities as well as the economics.

Wireless Sensor Network-based architectures are a pivotal part of the situational awareness systems that can be employed in defense, homeland security, and relatively recently in many commercial applications, including industry automation and even home security. The nodes that constitute these systems are required to support multi-modal sensing, local signal processing and node management tasks, and wireless communication using self-organized mesh-structured networks, while having severe form factor and lifetime constraints (extremely low power consumption and other) imposed on them to be tactically useful.

This report analyzes the development of advanced technologies for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Particular, it addresses:
  • UWB, ZigBee and UGS (Unattended Ground Sensors) products market characteristics, their specifics and market segmentation
  • Radio and technology standards supporting WSN
  • USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Network)concept, applications and development
  • IP-based WSN
  • Green telecom and WSN with extremely low requirements to maintenance
  • Market -WSN and UGS
  • Applications-WSN and UGS
  • Current WSN implementation
  • Market players and their products.
The report covers a wide spectrum of modern trends in the WSN industry. The USN concept is evolving, and it promises a “universal” global connectivity and processing power that even difficult to predict today-it is expected that the USN can make our everyday life safer and allow many new services that are not imaginable today.

Another area that attracts a lot of industry attention (and covered in this report) is the design of low power consumption WSN nodes; power harvesting and other techniques make such nodes maintenance very easy and inexpensive - no wiring and no battery maintenance; they also fit to global requirements to make telecom “greener”. The report also stresses the importance of the development IP-based WSNs; such a development allows effective sensors networking and connectivity to external networks.

This report continues the Practel, Inc. WSN project, and updates information of previously published reports as well as addresses new evolving trends in WSN networking.

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