Global Wireless Sensor Network Markets Report 2019: Annual Shipments of Wireless Mesh Sensor Nodes will Increase by 560% Over the Next Five Years

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By 2023, there will be 3.4 billion annual WSN chipset shipments worldwide up from 1 billion in 2018. Short range technologies such as 802.15.4, Bluetooth, WiFi and proprietary make up over 90% today but LPWA networks including Sigfox, LoRa and NB-IoT are increasing faster. Location services are another growing trend. Within the next five years, 3 in 5 of WSN chipsets will be used for location related services including proximity sensing as well as asset tracking and locating.

For the past decade, Internet of Things (IoT) development has been limited by costs, reliability, range and network incompatibility. Today, these barriers to entry have been removed by wireless sensor networks (WSN) that have become a key differentiator for an increasing number of organizations. In fact, without an IoT strategy, enterprises are at a significant competitive disadvantage. WSN increases operational efficiency, scalability, asset visibility and creates vast amounts of data that provides new analytic insights on complex processes.

This is a diverse landscape where developers are using mesh networking, energy harvesting, beacons, location services, Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks,
and multi-protocol chipsets to push the boundaries of WSN.

The publisher has covered these developments and their impact on the evolving IoT ecosystem for the past 15 years. In this report, we focus on three primary WSN technology variations:

Wireless mesh sensor networks
Location-aware personal area networks
Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks

Wireless Mesh Sensor Networks

Annual shipments of wireless mesh sensor nodes will increase by 560% over the next five years. With 500 million installed mesh devices, IEEE 802.15.4 has the lion's share of the market today using protocols such as Zigbee, Thread, Wi-SUN, WirelessHART and ISA100 Wireless. By 2023, 4.5 billion cumulative 802.15.4 mesh devices will be sold worldwide.

Bluetooth mesh is providing new high-growth markets for Bluetooth such as smart homes and buildings, smart cities, retail, healthcare operations as well as industrial and logistics applications. Over the next five years, Bluetooth Low Energy chipset shipments for sensor network markets will increase by 3X faster than the overall Bluetooth LE market.

Wireless mesh network protocols are provided by over half of the 67 low power wireless chipset and module suppliers we analyzed for this report. Innovations for wireless mesh sensor networks continues to grow such as the network agostic wireless mesh platform by CyanConnode, ultra-long range wireless mesh systems using LoRa by Chess Wire and decentralized, radio-agnostic wireless mesh networks by Wirepas. Combo chips that include both 802.15.4 and Bluetooth LE are offered by most leading WSN suppliers including Nordic, NXP, Qorvo, Qualcomm, Redpine, Silicon Labs and TI.

Location-Aware Personal Area Networks

By 2023, 2.5 billion cumulative personal area wearables devices such as fitness/health trackers and smartwatches will be sold worldwide. Bluetooth location services has emerged as one of the largest IoT developer opportunities in 2018. IoT data analytics platforms such as IBM's Watson IoT, Intel's Retail Sensor Platform and GE Predix are increasingly using Bluetooth beacons for high-value enterprise applications such as retail point-of-interest messaging, real
-time coupons, wayfinding, workflow optimization and asset tracking.

Bluetooth beacons are used by retail chains and brands such as Macy's, Lord & Taylor and Coca Cola; numerous sports/event venues such as the Mobile World Congress conference, Detroit Auto Show and Levi Stadium in San Francisco; and a growing number of commercial and industrial companies.

Low Power Wide Area Networks

Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks solve many of the challenges associated with wireless mesh sensor networks by creating multi-mile star networks where the complexity of the network and application reside on an in-premises or cloud network server. LPWA networks such as LoRaWAN provide geolocation and roaming capabilities to complement or replace GPS that lower service fees for tracking, locating and monitoring of people, animals, vehicles, bicycles and other mobile assets.

The publisher's analysis of nearly 100 LPWA network operators found that two-thirds provide networks such as Sigfox or LoRaWAN that use unlicensed spectrum. However, the pace of activity for NB-IoT has accelerated over the past 18 months. Today, 1 in 4 LPWA operators provide or are planning NB-IoT networks and there are over a dozen NB-IoT chipset suppliers from a small handful two years ago.

The number of IoT software platform providers continues to increase with the most successful of these focused on a few number of markets or establishing strategic alliances with IoT infrastructure leaders. LPWA network infrastructure providers including Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei, Kerlink, Nokia, Sagemcom and ZTE that are creating extensive, highly integrated end-to-end IoT platforms including device management, network operations, application enablement, end devices and vertical solutions.

Based on thousands of interviews and surveys with executives across the whole IoT value chain, this report analyzes 45 WSN market segments including the current market forces, technology dynamics, market size and value system from hip to end user. Targeted at IoT developers, wireless component suppliers and IoT platform providers, this report is the product of ON World's ongoing research on WSN for over a decade.

Companies Mentioned

ABB
Aclara
Actility
Acuity Brands
ADT
Alarm.com
Altair
Amazon
AMX
Analog Devices
Anaren
ANS
ARM
Arrayent
Assa Abloy
AT&T
ATIM
Atmosphere IoT
Ayla Networks
Belkin
Bosch
C3 IoT
Casambi
CEL
CentraLite
Centrica Hive
Cisco
Cobject
Comcast
Computime
Control4
Cree
Crestron
Cumulocity
Cypress
D-Link
Daintree
Decawave
Develco
Dialog
Digi
Digital Lumens
Distech Controls
Dynastream
E-Senza
Eaton
Echelon
Ecobee
EcoFactor
Electric Imp
Electrolux
EM Microelectronic
Embit
Emerson
Enlighted
EnOcean
Ericsson
Espressif
Essence Group
Fagerhult
Fanstel
Fujitsu
Gemalto
General Electric
GEO
Golden Power
Gooee
Google
Google Nest
Greenvity
GreenWave Systems
Haier Group
Helium
Hitachi
Honeywell
HP
Huawei
Hubbell
IBM
Idosens
IFTTT
IMST
Ingenu
Ingersoll Rand
InsightSIP
Insteon (SmartLabs)
Intent Technologies
Invisible Systems
IoTA
IVT
Johnson Controls
Kerlink
Kwikset
Laird
Lapis
LEEDARSON
Legrand
Leviton
LG
Libelium
Linear
Link Labs
Lutron
M2M Spectrum
Marvell
Maxim
MediaTek
Mesh Systems
Microchip
Microsemi
Microsoft
Millennial Net
Mitsubishi
MultiTech
Murata
Muzzley
myDevices
Nanotron
NEMEUS
Netatmo
NetVox
Nivis
NKE Watteco
Nokia
Nordic Semiconductor
Nortek
NXP
Oceasoft
ON Semiconductor
Onzo
OrbiWise
OSRAM
Panasonic
Philips
PTC/ThingWorx
Qorvo
Qualcomm
Quectel
Rachio
Radiocrafts
Raytac
Redpine
relayr
Renesas
RF Digital (AMS)
RF Solutions
RF Technologies
Roc-Connect
Sagemcom
Samsung
Samsung SmartThings
Satechi
Schneider
Seed Development
Semtech
Senet
Sengled
Sequans
Sharp
Siemens
Sierra Wireless
Sigfox
Silicon Labs
Silvair
Skyley
Softing
Sony
Stack Lighting
Stanley Black & Decker
STMicro
Synapse
Taiyo Yuden
TD Next
TDK Corp
Technicolor
Telit
Tendril
The Button Corporation
There Corporation
ThinkEco
TI
Toshiba
Tridium
u-blox
UBEC
Universal Electronics
UTC
Vivint
Whirlpool
Wink
Wirepas
Wisol
Wistron Neweb
Wrth Elektronik
Xiaomi
Yale Security
Yokogawa
Zuli
Zumtobel

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