Monday, 7 January 2019

Liquid Packaging Cartons Market – Focus on Regional Perspective and Stakeholder Assessment

In 2013, the world consumed more than 1,200 billion liters of packaged liquid food, which was about 3.5% more than the consumption in 2012. The main segments of liquid food were water, soft drinks, dairy products and fruit juices among others. The consumer preference for ready–to-carry liquid food has led to a tremendous growth in the liquid packaging cartons market in the last decade, and this trend is only expected to increase in the forthcoming years. The liquid packaging cartons can be of various sizes, shapes and application types, and are easy to design and model according to the packager’s need.

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One of the primary drivers of the liquid packaging market is the growing inclination of the general population towards packaged food and drinks. Fast lifestyle and convenience of carton packaged drinks over other packaging means such as glass bottles has acted as drivers to this market. Although plastic packaging is still one of the major competitors for carton packaging for drinks, carton packaging manages to score more on the environmental grounds and recyclability. Consumers seeking environmentally friendly means of packaging are expected to be a driving factor for the liquid packaging cartons market.

Moreover the recyclability of the carton packages reduces municipal wastage, and brings down cost of production in the long run. Introduction of aseptic cartons in the market has also boosted the growth of this liquid packaging technique. Aseptic cartons are primarily made of paperboard, with thin layers of plastic and aluminum. These cartons help to preserve food over a substantial period of time without adding preservatives. Tetra Pak is one of the market leaders in the aseptic carton packaging technology.

The main stumbling block for liquid packaging cartons market is the plastic containers, which account for a sizable share of the liquid food packaging market. Polyethylene terepthalate (PET) and High density polyethylene (HDPE) are the main market competitors of carton packaging for liquid food. The popularity of different packaging methods varies with region. PET containers are preferred to carton packaging for milk in North America, while some parts of Europe are carton package society.

Several opportunities lie for the liquid packaging carton market to grow. Innovation in packaging techniques is the key to future growth of the market. As the market caters to FMCG products, packaging attractiveness and differentiation are the key attributes which decide the popularity of a brand and drive a consumer towards one product. The expectations of brand owners as well as the consumers needs to be satisfied in the lines of packaging differentiation and functionality, food safety, and cost effectiveness of packaging performance and reliability. Some of the functional expectations from the brand owners are logistical benefits, easy pouring and drinking experience for customers and differentiated opening techniques for aged consumers. Apart from these financial opportunities lie in recycling of cartons, use of renewable materials, and equipments which consume less energy and produce lesser wastes.

The market is regulated by changing demographics, economics and sustainability. Asia Pacific which is home to the largest population in the world is also the fastest growing market for liquid packaging cartons market. High population in countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Thailand, and the rising disposable income of the people have resulted in growth in liquid food market, which indirectly resulted in growth in the liquid packaging cartons market. North America market is experiencing stagnation in the market, while the growth in Europe is slow to moderate. South America, Africa, Russia and Asia Pacific are the regions which are expected to drive growth in this market. Some of the major players in this market are Tetra Laval, Comar, Inc., Liqui-Box Corp. and Tri-Wall, and Wayerhaeuser among many others.

Know about the Incredible Possibilities of Wireless Broadband in Public Safety Market

Wireless broadband services technology is vital to public safety since it helps provide enhanced situational awareness from public safety entities in cases of emergency. There is an urgent need for effective wireless communications networks that can be used by emergency service organizations, such as the police and emergency medical and fire services, to respond to and prevent incidents likely to endanger people or property. Government agencies are constantly looking to expand the applications of wireless broadband in public safety, the key applications being video surveillance, emergency medical telemetry, mobile virtual private network (VPN) access, incident scene management, automated vehicle locating, and geographic information systems (GIS).

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Wireless broadband enables access to site information, medical records, and various forms of data and video information that are critical for emergency responses. In the U.S., for instance, broadband technology helps improve homeland security. By establishing the foundation for the quick, real-time, and effective transmission of data, voice, or video to various public safety answering points, wireless broadband continues to enhance the country’s present 9-1-1 system.

The research report on the market for wireless broadband in public safety offers an in-depth assessment of the global market, highlighting the leading geographic, end-use, and application segments as well as the major factors driving and hampering the growth of the market.

Global Wireless Broadband in Public Safety Market: Key Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges

There has been a significant rise in the incidence of terrorist attacks on enterprises, government headquarters, and major landmarks in recent years. The occurrence of natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, and hurricanes has also increased of late, in addition to road and air mishaps. This surge in security threats and unforeseen casualties has created major challenges for public safety organizations, driving the demand for effective security, response, and rescue measures. This has significantly boosted the importance of wireless broadband in public safety.

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The rapid surge in the adoption of smartphones, portable modems, tablets, and other mobile devices, coupled with technological advancements in wireless connectivity and networks, has also acted as a major driver for the global market for wireless broadband in public safety. This market is also fueled by the growing need for faster real-time communication and data access.

The major challenge, as of now, is concern regarding security breaches. Moreover, the lack of awareness and proper infrastructure in several developing economies also acts as a key hindrance to the wireless broadband in public safety market. Other impediments include the dearth of funding, the challenge of spectrum allocation, and the dependence on analytics in evaluating information gathered during emergency situations.

Global Wireless Broadband in Public Safety Market: Competitive Landscape

Some of the prominent companies competing in the global market for wireless broadband in public safety are Ericsson, Harris Corporation, Nokia Networks, AT&T Inc., Alcatel-Lucent S.A., Motorola Solutions, Inc., Airbus Group, Inc., and ZTE Corporation. These companies cater to a number of end users, including the police department, the fire department, and emergency medical services. Satellite, fixed, and mobile wireless broadband services provided by these players are used for GIS, video surveillance, and mobile VPN access, among others. An increasing number of companies have been merging with local players or acquiring new companies to gain a competitive edge and provide advanced wireless broadband services in the field of public safety.

The report identifies the key players operating in the global market for wireless broadband in public safety and evaluates their performance and contribution toward the worldwide and regional market. Their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats have been assessed at length, providing clients with valuable and actionable insights on their competitors.

Key Trends in Advanced Data Centre Infrastructure Market

Advanced data centre infrastructure enables organizations in possessing the critical capability of establishing whether the business needs all the hardware by identifying and measuring data centre assets and their inherent value. Moreover, advanced data centre infrastructure also offers the organization insight into power usage, applications, utilization, cooling requirements and overall performance. The market has been segmented by type into software and services. Furthermore, the market is also segmented by application telecommunications, retail, healthcare, finance and banking among others. The market by geography has been segmented into Europe, Asia Pacific, North America and Rest of the World (RoW).

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Advanced Data Centre Infrastructure Market: Growth Enablers

With the help of advanced data centre infrastructure, organizations establish business guidelines, set measurable goals and properly investigate in future scenarios. Furthermore, with the increasing stress on energy and green utilization compliance, enterprises are aggressively searching ways to set proper goals and to achieve those goals without any burden on the business resource and base infrastructure. Disparate and unmanaged data centres results in financial pressure and huge budget overlays on organizations.

With the help of advanced data centre infrastructure, organizations properly manage the integrated environment of IT and facilities. Moreover, the new advanced infrastructure helps enterprises in redirecting their wasted IT budget towards new business investments in order to achieve their business goals.

Advanced data centres are not only an enabler to the business, but also they provide competitive advantages to the organizations. Effective and advanced data centre infrastructures propel the utilization, efficiency and availability of data centre services and assets.

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However, facilities and IT organizations invested heavily in technology resources such as tools, processes and people in order to manage the data centre infrastructure but failed due to gaps between IT infrastructures component and data centre facilities. With the help of advanced data centre infrastructure, organizations can now focuses on future goals properly.

Advanced Data Centre Infrastructure Market: Regional Insight

North America is leading the market for advance data centres infrastructure market globally. Furthermore, Asia pacific is expected to witness positive growth over the forecast period from 2015 to 2021. At present, banking sector is dominating the market for advanced infrastructure in terms of application. However, telecommunication segment is expected to witness rapid growth over the forecast period from 2015 to 2021. The key driving factors contributing in the positive growth of this market is availability and sustainable IT, which is having a positive impact on the advanced data centres infrastructure market at the global level.

In addition, growing opportunities in venture capital funding is one of factor fueling the growth of this market. Furthermore, growth in enterprise visualizations and cloud computing increasing the demand for advanced data centres, which is leading to innovative and new technologies in order to reduce the cost of data centre management and power consumption. The market for advanced data centre infrastructure is expected to witness rapid growth over the forecast period from 2015 to 2021 benefiting facility vendors as well as IT.
 
Advanced Data Centre Infrastructure Market: Key Players

Some of the key players operating in the advanced data centre infrastructure market are Emerson Electric Co., nlyte Software, Inc., FieldView Solutions, Inc. and International Business Machines Corporation, Modius, Inc., CA Technologies, Panduit Corp., JouleX LLC, iTRACS Corporation, Inc., Raritan, Inc., SynapSense Corporation, Sentilla Corporation in North America. Rittal GmbH & Co. KG in Europe.

Special Mission Aircraft Market – Company Analysis, SWOT, Marketing Strategy

Special mission aircraft are used mainly by the three sectors of armed forces on account of their various uses. Such aircrafts have surveillance devices to uncover movement of enemies. However, they mostly do not carry any weapons. Special mission aircraft are mainly used to support active combatants via surveillance and delivery of supplies. Another crucial application segment of special mission aircraft is maritime patrol. Apart from that, they enable uncovering oil spills and helping in recovery operations too.

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A report by Transparency Market Research, delves deep into the global market for special mission aircraft. It uncovers the major tailwinds and headwinds affecting the trajectory of the market. For the purpose of study, it segments the market based on various parameters and examines each one in great details to uncover which one holds out maximum opportunities. It also provides an executive level blueprint of the market.

Global Special Mission Aircraft Market: Key Trends

Majorly catalyzing growth in the global market for special mission aircraft is the rising geopolitical tensions all over the world, which has warranted increased surveillance. Besides, they also serve to support combatants in war-stricken nations. Another factor boosting uptake of special mission aircrafts are the pressing requirement to thwart illegal activities, namely drug trafficking and terrorism. Piracy is also a major concern that has boosted the market. For example, piracy in the waters of Somalia has become a major headache for trading in the Indian Ocean and hence has led to the uptake of special mission aircrafts. Similarly, the prolonged civil wars in the Middle East and Eastern Africa too have helped demand.

Some of the major applications of special mission aircrafts are electronic warfare, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, maritime patrol, anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, electronic warfare, airborne early warning and control, search and rescue, electronic or signals intelligence, aerial refueling, and search and rescue. At present, maximum demand is generated in the market for surveillance.

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Operation-wise, the three segments of the market for special mission aircraft are naval force, air force, and army. At present, the segment of air force generates maximum demand and is trailed by naval units.

Global Special Mission Aircraft Market: Regional Outlook

From a geographical standpoint, North America holds a leading share in the worldwide market for special mission aircraft. This is mainly because of the massive defense spends in the U.S., which boasts of the biggest air force in the world and hence has the largest fleet of special mission aircraft. Asia Pacific is another key region which is being bolstered by China and India which typically have substantial defense spending. Ongoing territorial disputes in the Middle East and Africa has also spelled opportunity for the market. Brazil in Latin America is another prominent market to watch out for.

Global Special Mission Aircraft Market: Competitive Dynamics

Some of the prominent participants in the global market for special mission aircraft are Boeing, Bombardier Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Northrop Grumman Corporation. The report throws light on their sales and revenues, market shares, and the winning strategies. It also leverages analytical tools of the likes of SWOT Analysis and Porter’s Five Forces to understand the opportunities and pitfalls awaiting companies operating in the global market for enterprise social networks.

Smart Street Lights Lay the Groundwork for Future IoT Deployments

The current imbalance of ecosystem has transformed the traditional way of doing business. The companies are adopting ‘greener’ strategies to support the sustainable development globally. Moreover, the public and private sectors are joining forces to encourage the adoption of smart cities worldwide. Lighting is one of the major prospects in rapidly evolving smart technologies. The ideal smart lights consists of solar panels, lightings, batteries, and network devices for communication. The connected street light market is highly influenced by the growing concerns for greener environment. The smart lighting is considered to be one of the most efficient technology contributing for energy conservation.

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The lighting industry is undergoing radical transformation fueled by increasing demand for sustainable & energy-efficient solutions, development of LED lighting, and rapid improvisation in semiconductor technology. LED is considered to be the most feasible alternative compared to its counterparts owing to its ability to consume lesser energy and having longer lifespan. Moreover, LED lights are expected to remain in adoption for a longer duration of time as there is no possible cause for its phase out since there are negligible hazardous chemicals. These lights can easily be integrated/embedded with controlling devices and are easily recyclable supporting the LED lights adoption in street lighting.

Growing interest in controlling lighting within their facilities through smart devices and phones has strengthened the foundation of future developments in intelligent and connected lighting technologies. Although LED is the most prominent choice for connected street lights, other traditional lamps such as fluorescent lamps, HID lamps and CFLs can also be utilized into connected lighting.

Smart street lighting platform provides extended capabilities enabling cities to reduce the energy consumption and increasing cost savings. Added revenue streams related to lampposts offer potential growth opportunities over the forecast timeframe. For instance, smart/connected poles are being installed with Volte 4G technology for improving the mobile phone coverage. Renting the poles to the cell carriers provide revenue generation opportunities to the government.

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Technological advancements in connected streetlights include downtime reduction in case of malfunctioning of streetlight. The officials are instantly notified as soon as a lamp is dysfunctional, which can be rectified to reduce the downtime. Connected street lighting as a platform provides numerous benefits to both suppliers and government. The integration of several applications in existing infrastructure can save costs resulting in lower average product costs thereby providing additional valuable services to the citizens.

The global smart street light market can be segmented by connectivity into Wi-Fi, radio frequency, Bluetooth and others. By lamps, the industry can be segmented into LED lamps, HID lamps and CFL lamps. Europe is expected to lead the smart street light market amongst other regions. Various lighting organizations are rigorously working towards smart lighting controls deployment in private and public arenas. In 2015, Lighting Europe Association conducted 19 events and produced about 400 scientific papers on smart lighting.
North America is anticipated to be the potential market for connected lighting over the forecast timeline. The operating costs of lighting in North America for commercial spaces is significantly higher thus adoption of smart lighting provides cost effective and efficient solution. Furthermore, regulations and energy policies to limit the energy consumption are strictly implemented in North America supporting the adoption and development of connected street lights market in the region.

Telensa, Osram, Philips, General Electric, Wipro, Echelon Corporation, Tvilight, Tech Mahindra, Sierra Wireless, Verizon Enterprise and Sunview LED are the prominent manufacturers and service providers of the connected street light market. The companies are focusing towards targeting government and other associations for the adoption of smart street lights. For instance, in November 2016, Philips Lighting announced to install over 90,000 connected street lights in Jakarta. The company also set a target of connecting about 430 light points per day making the project duration to complete in seven months.

Key Companies Operating in the Smart Home Digital Assistant (Voice) Market

A digital assistant (virtual assistant) is an application program which can complete electronic tasks for the user by understanding the natural language. Earlier, such tasks included reading text, taking dictation, reading email or text messages aloud, placing calls and reminding the user about the appointments. The advanced digital assistants are programmed with machine learning, voice recognition technology and artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence (AI) programming uses sophisticated algorithms to recognize the input data and improvise in predicting the end-user’s needs when the user interacts with the digital assistant. Technological advancements in smart home digital assistant industry will be more advanced with cognitive computing technologies enabling digital assistant to understand and perform complex tasks.

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The expansion of AI enabled services from various companies such as Apple, Amazon, Google and Samsung Electronics is expected to support the industry growth over the forecast timeline. The digital assistants with voice as a user-interface (UI) are increasingly penetrating in smart homes via integration with connected set top boxes, smart speakers, streaming media devices and smart TVs. The consumer electronics manufacturers are increasingly adopting voice assistants to differentiate their products, attract customers to their platforms by providing a smarter experience.

Many home appliance manufacturers have already started to integrate Google Assistants and Amazon Alexa within their connected appliances. Currently these appliances are likely to be assistant-enabled and are expected to be embedded with AI-based technology for numerous range of appliances such as smart wall ovens, smart fridges, smart coffee machines and robotic vacuum cleaners.

Voice control is quite crucial in smart home environment as almost all electronic devices can be controlled through voice commands, effectively reducing the continuous management need of various mobile applications. The virtual assistant software acts as a brain for each device by typically combining recognition and application programming interfaces (APIs). These smart home virtual assistant features always-on microphones which are voice-controlled.

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The voice-controlled smart home virtual assistant speakers listens to every sound within their hearing range. After hearing its wake word, the speaker awakes into action and sends recording of the command to its cloud servers. The command is translated into the action in the server and sent back with necessary action. The processing is entirely dependent on the network connection and can be instantaneous or may take few seconds for response.

Balancing user privacy concerns, capturing user data to ensure compelling experience is the major key challenge for digital assistant providers. The cost implications of adding AI-enabled services, ensuring sufficient developer support and service integrations are the potential growth opportunities for smart home digital assistant market.

The U.S. households are quickly adopting the digital voice assistants as compared to other consumer electronics in North America region. The voice-based and voice control technologies has experienced strong uptick in the consumer electronics segment. Continuous improvements in natural language processing and machine learning paired with prevalence of portable devices have supported the advancements in voice interfaces. The North America is expected to continue its dominance over the forecast timeline owing to its early adoption of the digital assistant technology. Europe and Asia Pacific region is expected to have quickest CAGR growth owing to rising disposable income and urbanization of smart homes in these regions.

Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple Siri and Microsoft Cortana are some of the industry participants in smart home digital assistant market. The rivalry between the technology giants is intensifying as more companies combine their voice assistant software with speaker-style hands-free hardware. Amazon has significantly tapped the market share by launching its Echo speaker and Alexa assistant in the niche market. However, the company is expected to face significant technological and cost pressures from its competitors such as Google, Samsung, Apple and other big industry competitors.

Smart Dust Has The Potential To Revolutionize The IoT

The current ultramodern technologies are prominently focusing on miniaturization and automation. The increased connectivity, decreasing computing device size, and increasing communication with the physical world have characterized computing’s history. Recently, the popularity of small computing devices, such as cell phones and hand held computers, diminishing size and cost of sensors, rapidly flourishing internet group and decreasing size of transistors have mainly accelerated technological developments. The emergence of small computing elements, with increased interaction with the environment and sporadic connectivity provides enriched opportunities to reshape interactions between computers and people and spur the ubiquitous computing researches.

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Smart Dust devices are nothing but small wireless microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that can detect everything from vibrations to light. Smart dust device is of tiny dust size with enhanced extraordinary capabilities. It consists of nano-structured silicon sensor which can spontaneously orient sense, assemble and report on the local environment it is present in. This new technology combines computing, sensing, autonomous power supply and wireless communication capabilities within the distance of only a few millimeters. It is very hard to detect the presence of the Smart Dust and it is even harder to get rid of them once deployed.

Smart Dust are useful in monitoring and processing the real world phenomenon without disturbing the environment. These smart dust devices are proposed to be so light in weight and small in size that they can remain suspended in the environment like an ordinary dust particle. These properties of Smart Dust will render it useful in monitoring real world phenomenon without disturbing the original process to an observable extends.

The demand for related information and the innovation of advanced technologies such as are further estimated to support the growth of smart dust market over the forecast period. The high efficiency of devices along with the elimination of technical support staff accompanied with these technologies are estimated to propel the smart dust market growth. High implementation cost may act as a challenge to the market. Moreover, one of the major disadvantages of Smart Dust is the privacy issue for organizations using it.

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Global Smart Dust Market has been segmented on the basis of its end-user industry, enterprise size and region. On the basis of end-user industry market can be segmented such as Banking Financial services and Insurance (BFSI), Healthcare, Government, Commercial, retail sector and other. Government sector is expected to remain one of the leading end-use industry in the global smart dust market over the next coming years.

Increasing application areas in military sector such as monitoring activities in inaccessible areas, accompany soldiers and alert them to any poisons or dangerous biological substances in the air are the is the prominent growth factor of the segment.  The commercial and healthcare sector are predicted to grow at a considerable rate attributing to the increasing over the forecast period. Other end-use industries include aerospace and media and entertainment
Based on the enterprise size the global market can be segmented as large size enterprises and Small and Middle size enterprises (SME’s). Region wise, global smart dust discovery market is segmented into North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific (APAC) and Middle East and Africa (MEA). North America is estimated to be the major regional market over the coming years, mainly attributing to the presence of the technological advancements and major industry participants.

Moreover, the convergence of enterprise information systems security and solutions may provide new means for the growth in North America.  Asia Pacific is predicted to grow significantly on account of the growing information and technology industry in countries such as Japan, India, China, Philippines and the South Korea.

The key vendors in the global smart dust market are are IBM Corp, Hitachi, BetaBatt, Inc., Smartdust Solutions Ltd. and Crossbow Technology, Inc.

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