Global "Smart" Home Market promises billions (ignoring microwave exposure risks)

I am all for profit except when the products are dangerous. The rush to profit on wireless "connected" homes continues, (willfully) oblivious to increasing knowledge of biological risks. (see BioInitiative 2012 and numerous other sources for studies showing harm.)

Global Connected Home Market 2013-2018: Smart Appliances, DLNA & 3-Screen

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NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Global Connected Home Market 2013-2018: Smart Appliances, DLNA & 3-Screen
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Report Details

In an increasingly saturated market place operators continually struggle to find new revenue streams. The connected home offers the potential for new revenue streams, as operators partnered with content providers and OEMs can capitalise on the unique opportunities offered by an emerging ecosystem of smart devices.

For operators the connected home can turn all households into high ARPU households. For content providers the connected home will provide a surge in demand for commercial content. Overall, the connected home's interoperability allows content and services to be delivered to ultimately more end-points, thus increasing revenue opportunities for both content and service providers.

While the connected home comes in various guises, our research shows that many consumers are already utilising many smart devices and services for low-level smart home functionality. Building on a foundation of consumer interest ecosystem members and new market entrants must act swiftly in order to stake a claim in a market which will be worth $101 billion in 2013.

What makes this report unique?

 

An array of primary and secondary sources has informed the findings of our report. These findings have been placed in global and regional context, highlighting market trends and strategic opportunities in each. The report identifies and examines key players in a market poised for substantial growth. Our forecasts are informed by the performance of parallel markets and leading vendors, Visiongain consulted widely with industry experts and full transcripts from an exclusive interview with DLNA and Broadcom Corporation are included in the report.

As such, our reports have a unique blend of primary and secondary sources providing informed analysis. This methodology allows insight into the key drivers and restraints behind market dynamics and competitive developments, as well as identifying the technological issues. The report therefore presents an ideal balance of qualitative analysis combined with extensive quantitative data including global, submarket and regional markets forecasts from 2013-2018 - all identifying strategic business opportunities.

Why you should buy Global Connected Home Market 2013-2018: Smart Appliances, DLNA & 3-Screen Strategy
• Get ahead with this comprehensive analysis of the connected homes market prospects
- The report comprises 131 pages
• Stay ahead by studying highly quantitative content that delivers solid conclusions benefiting your research and analysis
- 83 tables, charts, and graphs quantifying and forecasting the connected homes market
• Read an exclusive expert opinion interview from an industry specialist informing the analysis
- DLNA and Broadcom Corporation
• View global connected home revenue forecasts from 2013-2018 to keep your knowledge one step ahead of the competition
- The report provides an analytical overview with detailed sales projections and analysis of the market, the competitors, and the commercial drivers and restraints.
• Keep informed about the potential for each of the 4 connected home submarkets with revenue forecasts from 2013-2018
- Home Health Services
- Home Energy Management Services
- Media Equipment and Management Services
- Home Monitoring Control and Automation
• Learn about the opportunities in 5 connected home regions with revenue forecasts between 2013-2018
- North America
- Europe
- Latin America
- Middle East & Africa
- Asia Pacific
• Receive supporting market forecasts between 2013-2018 which support our connected homes forecasts
- Mobile Data Traffic
- Smart TV
- Smartphones
- Tablets
- DLNA Certified Devices
- Smart Meters

Smart Grid platform "empowers products" with "consumer engagement engine"

IBS Group Member Announces New Cloud-Based Platform Empowers the Smart Grid with Targeted Consumer Engagement

Press Release: IBS Group Holding Ltd – 4 hours ago

RAMSEY, Isle of Man, January 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

IBS Group, a leading software development and IT services provider in Central and Eastern Europe, announces that Luxoft, a member of IBS Group and a global provider of advanced application and product development services, introduced DMMessenger at the DistribuTECH 2013 in San Diego, California.

DMMessenger is the energy consumer analysis and engagement tool that processes and segments high-volume meter data. Luxoft created DMMessenger specifically for Smart Grid solution vendors who want to empower their products with an active consumer engagement engine, meter data processing, cloud-based storage, social network integration, and two-way consumer messaging.

"Smart Grids is not about making people to consume less, it's about efficiency. Smart Grids enable people to consume energy in a green and a more sustainable way," said Michael Minkevich, VP Technology Services at Luxoft. "In order to proactively engage customers, utilities want a more effective means of communication with them and need software products that include extensive customer engagement functionality.

DMMessenger, that analyzes large volumes of consumer data and identifies the target groups amongst millions of clients is just the tool that allows the software vendors to rapidly develop such solutions. By engaging these groups utilities can achieve a more efficient grid operation, especially in critical peak times, to save money for the consumer and the supplier."

OBVIOUSLY, "non-engaged" groups will pay higher prices for not “empowering vendor products” by interacting with the system. What a racket.

Deep Brain Stimulator for Alzheimer's questioned

Using Electrical Stimulation For Alzheimer’s Disease: John Hopkins study.

The ADvance Study is researching the use of a surgically implanted device that delivers mild electrical pulses to specific areas of the brain in people with Alzheimer’s. This deep brain stimulation (known as DBS) will be given to the fornix, a place in the brain that plays a central role in memory. Based on results of a small study of 6 patients with Alzheimer’s*, the ADvance study is designed to determine if DBS of the fornix (DBS-f) is safe and has potential clinical benefit for patients with mild Alzheimer’s.

 

Treating memory loss such as Alzheimer's brings with a new Deep Brain Stimulator device implant sounds like an extreme measure. The researchers are not even sure if the device is safe. So, will the Alzheimer's patients who want to particpate please raise your hands?

The investment of time, money and focus put into this potential symptom treatment brings up questions:

Question:
Why hasn't the same amount of research effort gone into PREVENTION - especially into how memory and the brain are impacted by exploding exposure to microwave/radiofrequency people now experience?

Answer:
Reducing causes would reduce suffering and costs to U.S. health care. But new DBS equipment will be a profitable endeavor as memory-related conditions continue to rise.

Question:
Why are they so very careful about stimulating the brain here, yet totally oblivious to and careless about the impact of microwave/radiofrequency radiation's impacts to brains (and bodies)?

Answer: Money and power of the medical wireless industry.

National Health Freedom organization empowers consumers

National Health Freedom organization is standing up for consumers in a unique way to empower individuals to be able to choose how they handle their health needs and treatments. They also are speaking out for electrosensitive people - an estimated 3-8% and growing - in a culture largely oblivious to the new scourge.

Here is one shining beacon of their work:

Resolution On Electromagnetic Health

2012 The U.S. Health Freedom Congress
Schaumburg, IL, June 14, 2012
Submitted by ElectromagneticHealth.org

Huffington and Drudge news sources IGNORE smart meter news

From left to right and in between, big media generally ignores both local stories and the national overview of Americans' resistance to radiofrequency transmitting utility meters, called "smart meters," whether AMI, AMR or ERT types. Both the left's Huffington Post and right's Drudge Report news sources have not covered but a smidgeon of utility smart meter resistance news during the past year - 2012.

The irony is that the fight to keep safe, accurate, long-lasting, economical analog utility meters is being fought nationwide by groups made up of people from the left and right and everyone in between. THIS is truly one of the few - perhaps the only? - issue unifying citizens today. Amazing how the media won't touch it. Just amazing.

Huffington included news about Vermont smart meter opposition last May, and a brief story titled, Smart Meter, Utility Company Technology, Questioned By Michigan Public Service Commission, a year ago. The only other article found in a search was about smart parking meters in Denver - not utility meters. Huff does deserve credit for a November 2011 AP article, "States weighing pros, cons of utility smart meters," but their follow-up coverage is nonexistent.

Over the past year, this blogger regularly sent news on the smart meter front to Drudge, challenging them to cover this individual freedom issue. For example, these links were emailed on January 8, 2012:

 New Smart wáter meter pushers fear pushback from consumers

 

Sterling Heights puts hold on “smart meters”

FCC violation of smart meter bank caught on tape

Debate heats up in Ill. town over smart meters (Naperville, IL)

None of these or any other related news ever appeared at Drudge.
A year later - January 24, 2013 - out of the blue a Chicago Tribune article appeared at Drudge about the Naperville IL resistance without prompting.
Police accompanying electricity crews installing 'smart meters' arrest 2 homeowners... ^
From the January 24, 2013 15:20:03 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

Stories usually move down on the list over a few days. But on January 25 the groundbreaking article was gone, the spot replaced by:

SF MAYOR SUGGESTS BARS DON'T SERVE ALCOHOL DURING SUPER BOWL...

Baltimore Linebacker Plans to Use Game to Promote Gay Marriage...

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AMERICAN IDOL Racism Row: Nine Black Rejects Sue FOX Show...

Ah, well, more important news is bound to replace mundane stories about U.S. citizens' struggles for basic freedoms and property rights. C'est la vie.

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BioInitiative 2012 Update lists over 1800 NEW studies showing Radiofrequency (RF) Harm

FROM the 2012 Preface to the BioInitiative update:

The world’s populations – from children to the general public to scientists and physicians – are increasingly faced with great pressures from advertising urging the incorporation of the latest wireless device into their everyday lives. This is occurring even while an elementary understanding the possible health consequences is beyond the ability of most people to grasp. The exposures are invisible, the testing meters are expensive and technically difficult to operate, the industry promotes new gadgets and generates massive advertising and lobbying campaigns that silence debate, and the reliable, non-wireless alternatives (like wired telephones and utility meters) are being discontinued against public will. There is little labeling, and little or no informed choice. In fact there is often not even the choice to stay with safer, wired solutions, as in the case of the ‘smart grid’ and smart wireless utility metering, an extreme example of a failed corporate-governmental partnership strategy, ostensibly for energy conservation.

A collision of the wireless technology rollout and the costs of choosing unwisely is beginning and will grow. The groundwork for this collision is being laid as a result of increased exposure, especially to radiofrequency fields, in education, in housing, in commerce, in communications and entertainment, in medical technologies and imaging, and in public and private transportation by air, bus, train and motor vehicles. Special concerns are the care of the fetus and newborn, the care for children with learning disabilities, and consideration of people under protections of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which includes people who have become sensitized and physiologically intolerant of chronic exposures. The 2012 Report now addresses these issues as well as presenting an update of issues previously discussed...

ESPECIALLY Section 4: EVIDENCE FOR INADEQUACY OF THE STANDARDS



And from a 2013 review of the update:

RENSSELAER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new report by the BioInitiative Working Group 2012 says that evidence for risks to health has substantially increased since 2007 from electromagnetic fields and wireless technologies (radiofrequency radiation). The Report reviews over 1800 new scientific studies. Cell phone users, parents-to-be, young children and pregnant women are at particular risk.