This study is designed to serve as a strategic and tactical planning tool for companies who currently manufacture or resell radio and microwave frequency wireless monitoring, control, and/or networking products for industrial applications, or for companies who are considering entering these markets.
Report Highlights
- Overall dollar shipments of wireless products to North American markets for industrial monitoring and control applications are forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 39.6% over the forecast period.
- Although the IEEE 802.11 standards continue to gain in share, proprietary protocols operating the 900 MHz band maintained the largest share of shipments in 2004. Proprietary networks are often preferred in industrial applications where there is need for longer transmission distances and bandwidth requirements are not high.
- The development of the IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee standards are helping to expand the use of mesh networking in industrial monitoring and control applications. These standards meet the need for low complexity, low cost, low power consumption and low data rate wireless networks.
- Specific requirements of wireless networks are largely application specific. Material handling equipment and tank level monitoring and control held the largest shares of overall shipments.
Consuming Industries Analyzed
- Automotive
- Chemical & Petrochemical
- Consumer Products
- Electric Power
- Electronics/Semiconductor
- Food & Beverage
- Mining
- Oil & Gas
- Pharmaceutical
- Primary metals
- Pulp & paper
- Water/Wastewater
Major Applications Covered
- Assembly
- Chemical/petrochemical
- Controller maintenance
- Crane/hoist controls
- Data communication/monitoring
- Electric utility
- Food processing
- Industrial weighing
- Machinery condition monitoring
- Material handling
- Metalworking
- Oil and gas wellhead
- Pulp and paper
- Pumps
- Refinery processing
- Tank levels
- Wastewater treatment
Product Categories Analyzed (in Units & Dollars)
Data Acquisition Systems
Mesh Networking
Data acquisition systems, network products, sensors/transducers
RF/microwave Integrated circuits
Transceiver modules
Network Products
Access points
I/O Devices
Modems
Repeaters
On/Off-Site Operator Interface Terminals
Handheld Computers
Notebooks
PDAs
Remote Controls - sold as systems with machine mounted receivers or transceivers
Sensors/Transducers
Flow
Level
Pressure
Temperature
Wireless Technologies Covered
For On-Site Applications
Bluetooth
IEEE 802.11a/b/g standards
IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee standards
Proprietary 400 MHz
Proprietary 900 MHz
Proprietary 2.4 GHz
For Off-Site Applications
CDMA Personal Communication Systems (PCS)
DataTac/Motient
Group Special Mobile (GSM) Cellular
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Cellular
Mobitex
Nextel
Satellite Networks
3rd Generation Wireless Networks (3G)
Geographic Regions Covered
North America (United States, Canada, and Mexico)
This study is designed to serve as a strategic and tactical planning tool for companies who currently manufacture or resell radio and microwave frequency wireless monitoring, control, and/or networking products for industrial applications, or for companies who are considering entering these markets