A rising demand for energy efficiency and security, technology advancements, and power demand-supply gap is driving the global alternator market. Growing industrialisation in the Asia-Pacific region, the shift toward renewable power generation, and investment in distributed energy will drive market revenues to $5.19bn by 2020. In a highly fragmented market dominated by relabels, alternator suppliers must look to integrate with power generati...

  Alexander Michael, Director of Consulting, Digital Transformation, Frost & Sullivan explains his thoughts on WhatsApp and the fight against terror.

A strong IoT wave is sweeping through the sensors and automation technologies market, opening up opportunities for turbomolecular pumps in the semiconductor processes segment. The escalating demand for sensors is propelling this market all over the world, but especially in Asia-Pacific, where mobile density is intensifying. While the top five companies share 78.2 percent of the global market, it is crucial for players to stay abreast of the mega ...

The global homes and buildings industry is undergoing an intense evolution and accelerated growth. Transformational technologies such as IoT, Big Data, data analytics, and the cloud are propelling double-digit growth and market expansion in connected homes and LED lighting sectors. This is augmenting growth in the building automation market and playing an important role in the delivery of products and solutions in traditional sectors such as heat...

The module-level power electronics industry is witnessing an intense growth phase. Demand is driven by increasing solar photovoltaic (PV) installations across the globe and modernisation of grid infrastructure capable of accommodating Module-Level Power Electronics (MLPE) technology within the system. Manoj Shankar, Energy and Environment Research Analyst, said: “With movement towards renewable power and distributed power sources,...

Thanks to the rapid growth of the Virtual Reality (VR) market, substantial private and federal investments is being provided to innovative start-ups, mostly in the areas of video, services and solutions, games and apps. With technological advances and improvements in user experience, VR will become more ubiquitous in industries such as healthcare, automotive, education, manufacturing, retail, design, aerospace and defense and entertainment.

As a result of aggressive marketing efforts, there is high visibility for fast-charging applications. However, using supercharging as a selling point has meant that the hype has outpaced research efforts. Once the technology matches the most demanding customer expectations, the intensity of marketing messages will fade. Current innovations have focused on analytics and making chargers more personalised to improve the efficiency and life of batter...

As 2D integrated circuit (IC) technology nears its scaling limit, there is a need to scale up vertically to cope with the breakneck pace of advances in digital technologies. However, the progress made by the digital components has not been matched by the advances in microelectronic components, which has resulted in hindrances such as memory wall. In this scenario, 3D IC technology’s ability to help create high-performing, low-power-consumin...

  The US military's rising use of advanced weapons such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)/drones has given a huge boost to the market for satellite communication (SATCOMM).

The Smart City movement is gaining momentum. Citizen expectations, growing connectivity, and increasingly strained government resources are converging, strengthening the case for cities to invest in intelligent solutions rooted in information and communication technologies.

The concerted efforts toward making AI technology capable of human-like cognitive behaviour such as learning, reasoning, problem solving, planning and self-correction have received a huge boost with advances in deep learning and neural networks. The technological complexities inherent in developing perceptions for machines, as well as the verification and validation of these tools, have been eased to a large extent by the advancements of AI techn...

Driven by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the global market for robotics in manufacturing is steadily gathering pace, despite the fact that some manufacturing companies are unclear about the benefits of the industrial cloud.

  The female economy is emerging as a potent force, with global female income expected to reach $24 trillion by 2020; this is more than the revenue generated by the economies of either China or the United States. The rise of women to positions of executive leadership is compelling sellers to reexamine their business approaches.

The mature global data center infrastructure solutions market will grow at a moderate pace despite data center consolidation, high capital expenditure, and end-user skepticism toward new or unfamiliar solutions. Increasing demand for data storage, security and speed is creating an unprecedented growth in data traffic, ultimately driving data center infrastructure growth. Modular solutions, in particular, will encourage capacity expansion and ensu...

Sensors are experiencing large-scale deployment in diverse end-user applications across verticals in standalone, integrated, combined, embedded and, more recently, wearable and ingestibles. Sensors are transforming to be highly intelligent with analytical and decision-making capability at the edge.

The home security sector is shifting to a cyber-centric model, with pronounced emphasis on developing less-complicated, self-powered, connected devices. This shift has spawned the need to secure the entire lifecycle of the product. The changing definition of a “breach” is further compelling solution providers to secure their smart home security solutions from end to end.

Next-generation sensors are poised to influence the smartphone and wearables market. Though increased intelligence, ease of integration, real-time integration, and miniaturisation features may drive opportunities, data privacy and security remain key factors hindering widespread adoption. Advancements in sensors are creating opportunities for sensor manufactures to explore a wide range of applications enabling the research and development boom in...

In the coming two to three years, cyber security spending in the manufacturing industry is expected to increase by a minimum of 10%. A well-formulated security framework will become a norm for companies interested in adopting Industry 4.0 or any advanced manufacturing approach. Factories of the future are poised to have a link established with the outside world and the security in such a scenario will become an inevitable necessity for end-users ...

Research released by Frost & Sullivan’s Environment Team has shown that new applications and Internet of Things adoption will enable growth of innovative new business models.

The rapid proliferation of Big Data, cloud and in-memory computing - and the consequent data explosion - is making a strong case for the greater 'technologification' of BI (Business Intelligence) solutions. As data is captured from diverse sources and in structured, unstructured and semi-structured formats, enterprises are focusing on sophisticated BI technologies that can enhance data collection, deliver actionable insights, and boost their comp...