Smart Home Energy Management: Patent Analysis and Vendors' Strategies

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Date: 18-Jan-2016
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Driven by the trends of saving energy, major countries around the world, including the United States, Japan, and European countries, have taken measures to build infrastructure and introduce related regulations. This report provides an overview of smart home energy management, examines strategic and patent deployment of established players in the industry such as Bosch, General Electric, Honeywell, Toshiba, Google, Nest Labs, and Samsung, to name a few. Also included are R&D intensity ranking of 30 major assignees and the analysis of the 10 most important smart home energy management patents.

List of Topics


  • Overview of the smart home energy management technology which covers three architectural layers: sensor layer, network layer, and application layer

  • Major technology fields and sectors of 3,495 smart home energy management patents identified using data mining technique; also included are top 30 assignees with relative strong R&D intensity and their patent deployment analysis

  • A brief examination of deployment strategies of major assignees from the United States, Europe, Japan, and Korea; also included is a matrix analysis of the 10 most import patents by Patent Index Analysis


Companies covered

Allure Energy, AT&T, Broadcom, Cisco, Conversant IP Management, Current Technologies, EcoFactor, ETRI, Fujitsu, General Electric, Google, Hitachi, Honeywell, IBM, Indesit Company, Intel-GE Care Innovations, Invensys Building Systems, Koninklijke Philips, LG, Microsoft, Nest Labs, Nokia Corporation, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Robert Bosch, Samsung, Schneider Electric, Sharp, Sony, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Whirlpool

Smart Home Energy Management: Patent Analysis and Vendors' Strategies

Table of Contents

1.Overview of Smart Home Energy Management Technology 4
1.1 Smart Home Energy Management System 4
1.2 Architectural Layers 5
1.2.1 Sensor Layer 5
1.2.2 Network Layer 5
1.2.3 Application Layer 6

2. Patent Mining 10
2.1 Patent Search 10
2.1.1 Selecting a Patent Database 10
2.1.2 Identifying Search Keywords 10
2.1.3 Data Selection 10
2.1.4 Data Analysis 11
2.2 Analysis of Trends 12
2.2.1 Text Mining 12
2.2.2 Data Mining 13
2.2.3 Relative R&D Intensity 15

3. Deployment Strategies of Major Assignees 18
3.1 Deployment of Technology Fields 18
3.2 Trend Tracking 21
3.3 Analysis of Assignees' Technology Deployment 24
3.4 Results of Patent Index Analysis 28
MIC Perspective 32
Vendors' Patent Deployment Focuses on Home Network and Remote Control 32
Key Technologies of Smart Home Energy Management Owned by US Companies 32
Appendix 35
Glossary of Terms 35
List of Companies 36

List of Tables

Table 1: Key Technology Fields Identified by Text Mining 12
Table 2: R&D Intensity of Top 30 Smart Home Energy Management Patent Assignees 16
Table 3: Important Assignees' Deployment in Smart Home Energy Management Technology Fields 19
Table 4: Top 10 Import Patents by Patent Index Analysis 28
Table 5: Matrix Analysis of the 10 Most Important Smart Home Energy Management Patents 31

List of Figures

Figure 1: Smart Home Energy Management Architectural Layers 9
Figure 2: Search Flow for Smart Home Energy Management Patents 11
Figure 3: Smart Home Energy Management Patent Distribution Share by Sector 14
Figure 4: Smart Home Energy Management Patent Distribution Share by Field 15
Figure 5: Major Assignees' Patent Applications by Year, 2010 - 2015 22
Figure 6: Major Assignees' Patent Applications by Year, 2010 – 2015 (cont.) 22
Figure 7: Top 8 Fields of Patent Applications by IPC Code, 1995 – 2015 23
Figure 8: Top 8 Fields of Patent Applications by USPC Code, 1995 – 2015 24
Figure 9: Cross-analysis of Assignee and IPC Code 25
Figure 10: Cross-analysis of Assignee and IPC Code (cont.) 26
Figure 11: Cross-analysis of Assignee and USPC Code 27
Figure 12: Cross-analysis of Assignee and USPC Code (cont.) 27

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