ABI Research’s new latest Brief “Short-Range Wireless in the Home Networking Environment,” indicates that consumer electronics products are increasingly linked to each other through several short-range radio technologies.
The research firm suggests that challenged with a series of overlapping use-cases, network areas, standards, and technologies, CE vendors need to understand the applications best suited to each, and how they relate to each other.
As short-range networking technologies have begun to settle into more or less clearly defined roles, they will by and large coexist and complement each other rather than competing, ABI says.
ABI Research senior analyst Douglas McEuen said in a statement that technologies such as Bluetooth, Wi -Fi, UWB, 60 GHz, and ZigBee will not compete within the home but will be used in coordination, overlapping and coexisting for full wireless network coverage.
Pointing out that each of these technologies has a sweet spot or specialty, McEuen said that Bluetooth will be the driving technology in the PAN (personal area network) and may see some success in remote controls, especially for gaming.
Wi-Fi will be the key technology for wireless LAN (local area network). UWB and 60 GHz respectively will be specialized for home office peripherals, and for wireless HDMI (uncompressed video sent from a set-top box to a high-definition TV). Also, they point out that ZigBee stands apart, as a home automation technology.
The ABI Research report also refers to a few competitive counter-trends and cites the example of Intel (News - Alert) and OZMO Devices that recently announced a program which uses standard Wi-Fi protocols to handle PAN tasks such as syncing notebooks with various PC peripherals and wireless consumer electronics.
Recently the RF4CE (Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics) industry consortium was formed to develop a new protocol for radio frequency remote controls. This protocol is expected to compete with Bluetooth to replace IR remote controls for audiovisual equipment. ABI says that these are the exceptions that prove the rule.
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