Research and Markets: EnOcean Dominates IP Ownership in Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Networks in 2009

DUBLIN - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/43215a/energy_harvesting) has announced the addition of the "Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Networks, a IP & Patent Report 2009 Edition 2" report to their offering.

This new report evaluates intellectual property ownership, protection issues, and the growth of the adoption of energy harvesting for wireless sensor networks.

"Both EnOcean's patent portfolio and its commitment to protecting that portfolio are very strong," according to Kirsten West, PhD, Principal Analyst with WTRS. "Companies marketing solutions that combine the use of wireless sensor technologies integrated with energy harvesting technologies need to be aware of existing intellectual property,"

Many wireless sensor network applications are not addressable with products requiring access to mains power. Thus tuning the power requirements of the wireless sensor network components to minimize battery power use is a priority for many companies. Energy scavenging or harvesting technologies are also a topic of intense research effort and in combination with improvements in power consumption in wireless semiconductor devices, a class of solutions is emerging which eliminates the requirements for either battery power or any other external power connection instead operating on power generated by extracting energy from the surrounding environment.

This report reviews intellectual property holdings of companies participating in energy harvesting markets and also wireless sensor networks optimized for energy harvesting. The report issues surrounding the adoption of wireless sensor networks powered by energy harvesting technologies. In this market sector, the fundamental intellectual property is owned by EnOcean GmbH. EnOcean GmbH is a German technology company that develops energy harvesting technologies, energy-efficient wireless sensor network technologies operating with these energy harvesting devices, and technology products that leverage the integration between the energy harvesting and RF technologies.

Using only publicly available information, gathered from public patent sources, and filing information, this report reviews intellectual property holdings of the primary participants in Energy Harvesting for wireless sensor networks,analyzes intellectual property protection issues, and EnOcean intellectual property holdings, as well as activities by individual inventors at EnOcean.

The report also

• summarizes the corporate background and analyzes the intellectual property holdings of AdaptivEnergy LLC, Cymbet Corp, Greenpeak Technologies BV, and Micropelt Gmbh
• reviews EnOcean GmbH and its alliance activity
• summarizes the EnOcean wireless technology
• analyzes intellectual property management strategies
• analyzes intellectual property holdings of EnOcean GmbH
• Summarizes intellectual property creation activities of individual members at EnOcean GmbH

* Report includes 1 hour consulting

Global IPTV Market Leaders Report Tracks New Growth Both Large and Small Vendors Survive in Rising Markets

The author announces new leaders in the Global IPTV Market Leaders Report - October 2009 (MLR), which tracks the top 120 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sectors based on the installed base of 6 video systems products in over 800 IPTV Operations. Over 80 new Operators have begun IPTV since March 2009, most of those in North America, Europe and the Rest of World regions, totaling over 800 IPTV Operators worldwide. Several large companies, and a few smaller ones, continue to consolidate their leading market positions, including Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Verimatrix, Viaccess, Microsoft, Ericsson/TANDBERG and others.

In the IPTV Access sector, Alcatel-Lucent (A-L) breaks the record by acquiring 51% share of the worldwide (Access) market, while maintaining its #1 market ranking worldwide for several years. Also furthering its strength as a System Integrator (SI) is A-L's dominant #2 position in the Middleware sector, in addition to its continued success as IPTV System Integrator for AT&T.

In the Content Security sector, Verimatrix retains its #1 global market ranking, enjoying a 26% share of the global market, up 2% since March 2009. With solid leadership positions in all 4 of the regional markets, Verimatrix continues to light the pathway for other smaller vendors wanting to succeed in their product category.

In Set-top Boxes, Motorola still dominates the global market, with 28% share globally-a 5% increase since March 2009—followed by smaller and highly aggressive companies like Amino, ADB and Netgem. Over 25 companies continue to compete in this high-stakes market, which often represents over 60% of CapEx for IPTV operations.

In Video Headend Encoders, Motorola also maintains its #1 global ranking with 38% share of market, with Ericsson/TANDBERG having a strong second showing of 34%. This is a hotly contested sector where the top 5 vendors hold about 94% of the global share, leaving only 6% to the 6 other competitors. In both the Middleware and Video-on-Demand (VOD) sectors, companies continue to struggle to hold their own against the Microsoft juggernaut. So far, Espial and SeaChange and a few others are seeing some growth based mostly on growth of existing customers.

"Significant growth of China's IPTV subscribers enabled both Huawei and ZTE to improve their rankings in several sectors," says Jose Alvear, MRG Analyst. "These grew out of new developments at China Telecom and China Unicom as they expanded into different provinces, often with different configurations of video systems products."

"Mergers and partnerships will continue to develop as vendors help IPTV Operators develop new converged services and content," states Gary Schultz, MRG President. "We believe smaller/better/faster technology will enable application developers to exploit the advantages of the IPTV architecture for decades to come."

Key Topics Covered:

• Executive Summary
• The Role of Energy Harvesting in Wireless Sensor Networks
• The ZigBee Protocol and Energy Harvesting
• EnOcean GmbH
• Greenpeak Technologies BV
• Perpetuum Ltd.
• Cymbet Corp
• AdaptivEnergy LLC
• Micropelt GmbH
• Appendix: Patent Listings
• Tables and Figures
• Competitive WSN Protocol Specifications
• The EnOcean Wireless Standard
• IP Choices in the Development Cycle
• Inventor Analysis of EnOcean Patents
• US Patent Applications Filed by EnOcean
• US Patents Owned by EnOcean
• Non-US Patents Owned by EnOcean
• Greenpeak Worldwide Patent Holdings
• Perpetuum Worldwide Patent Holdings
• Cymbet U.S. IP Holdings
• AdaptivEnergy Worldwide Patent Holdings
• Micropelt Worldwide Patent Holdings

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