Welcome to the ASHB Research Report Library!

We’re pleased to provide free access to the following ASHB reports and executive summaries from our Landmark Research Projects. In addition to the reports below, you can find even more free resources in our Public Research Library and on the White Papers page.

Smart Home as a Service: Full Report

ASHB commissioned Harbor Research to examine the Smart Home as a Service (SHaaS) market, using both primary and secondary research methods, including expert interviews and a survey of over 1,500 North American residents. The study highlights SHaaS’s potential to revolutionize the smart home industry by transitioning from a product-based to a service-oriented model, thereby unlocking new revenue streams and enhancing customer engagement. The findings underscore the critical role of interoperability and open network communication protocols in facilitating this shift. The report also offers strategic recommendations for stakeholders, stressing the importance of increased collaboration within the ecosystem to maximize the benefits of SHaaS.

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Smart Home as a Service: Executive Summary

“As-a-service” models will transform the connected home market. This research takes a detailed look at the use cases, customer environments, and buying behaviors powering this shift.

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Smart Home Energy Management: Executive Summary

The report presents a comprehensive examination of the prevailing trends and forces that have an impact on homeownership and energy consumption, and how they influence smart home energy management systems (SHEMS). Additionally, it provides an in-depth analysis of the findings derived from a survey conducted among end-users in the United States and Canada, aiming to gain insights into the level of adoption and awareness of SHEMS from the perspective of customers. Furthermore, the report delves into the dynamics among suppliers and elucidates the most effective strategies and approaches employed in the smart home technology industry

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Healthy Buildings and Indoor Environmental Quality: Executive Summary

The intelligent buildings sector has a stake in creating healthy buildings not only for people’s well-being, but also to help owners and operators cost-effectively meet consumer demand, comply with evolving regulatory requirements, and respond to business needs such as reducing employee absenteeism. This report aims to help industry players like OEMs, control systems vendors, software and services providers, and building owners and managers make the right strategic decisions to respond to this evolving ecosystem.

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The Connected Home and AI: Executive Summary

A ASHB research report analyzes barriers to adoption and future opportunities in the current smart home and artificial intelligence (AI) landscape and proposes key recommendations for market participants to shape the development of this space.

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AI and Predictive Maintenance in Intelligent Buildings: Executive Summary

Using stakeholder surveys, expert interviews, and detailed market analysis, this project set out to understand how use cases, customer environments, buying behaviors, and ecosystem interactions all impact and influence the development of these technologies.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity in the Connected Home: Executive Summary

How should industry players be addressing privacy and cybersecurity concerns in the connected home? This research reviews the challenges of implementing response measures and evaluates the perceptions of various industry stakeholders.

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Intelligent Buildings and COVID-19: Executive Summary and Module 1

This research explores the impact of COVID-19 on the intelligent buildings sector, and dives into the technologies and business models expected to emerge stronger from the pandemic.

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Intelligent Building Energy Management Systems: Executive Summary

Understand more about how use cases, customer environments, buying behaviors, and ecosystem interactions all impact and influence the development of the intelligent building energy management systems (IBEMS) market.

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Connected Home Roadmap: Full Report

This research examines the trends influencing the direction of the connected home and explores how use cases, residential environments, and customer preferences impact the development of the market.

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Intelligent Buildings Design & Implementation: Executive Summary

Learn about the practices, challenges, process influencers, and opportunities pertaining to intelligent building design and implementation.

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Monetization of Intelligent Buildings: Executive Summary

This research project examines the technical barriers and opportunities around monetizing intelligent buildings from the perspective of building owners, developers, solution providers (OEMs and software firms), and other stakeholders.

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Monetization of Intelligent Buildings: Full Report

This research project provides a comprehensive examination of how to monetize intelligent buildings from the perspective of building owners, developer, solution providers (OEM manufacturers and service providers) and other stakeholders. This research includes: stakeholder analysis, business opportunities, technical barriers and opportunities, future market direction, issues, use-cases and industry recommendations.

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Connected Home IoT Energy Roadmap: Executive Summary

Read about industry trends and consumer feedback regarding IoT tools and systems for achieving energy efficiency, and understand what’s needed next for greater adoption of connected home energy solutions.

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Connected Home IoT Energy Roadmap: Full Report

The report provides an analysis and evaluation of industry trends and challenges in addition to consumer feedback regarding connected home energy aspects. It provides an in-depth examination of consumer concerns about high energy consumption, expectations regarding connected home energy solutions, challenges associated with adoption of connected home devices for optimizing home energy usage, current and future adoption of various connected home technologies and their impact on homeowners and industry value chain participants.

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Intelligent Building and the Impact of the Internet of Things: Full Report

Organizations from across the building and IoT value chains have benefitted from this report’s findings on the current state and future direction of the market. Gain insights on key trends, opportunities, technical barriers, and recommendations to industry.

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Connected Multi-Dwelling Units and Internet of Things: Full Report

Examine the Internet of Things (IoT) in relation to Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs), including in regard to the state of the market, trends, business opportunities, and technical barriers.

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Improving Organization Productivity with Building Automation Systems: Full Report

This report provides a framework by which vendors of “better buildings” technologies and their clients can value the effects of these technologies on organizational productivity metrics.

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Cybersecurity and the Connected Home: Full Report

This report examines all major aspects of cybersecurity in the home, including trends, public awareness, impacts on the adoption of connected home devices and services, and a business case analysis.

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Intelligent Buildings and Cybersecurity: Full Report

This study focuses on the extent to which cyber-attacks can arise from and are targeted at integrated building control systems, and includes steps to limit the likelihood of such incidents.

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Intelligent Buildings and Big Data: Full Report

Learn more about the tools and resources emerging in the market to help companies filter, analyze, and use Big Data collected from their intelligent buildings.

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Zero Net Energy Building Controls: Full Report

Centered on the role of building control systems in catalyzing ‘Zero Net Energy’ (ZNE) Buildings, this research will help manufacturers, designers, integrators, building operators, utilities, and other stakeholders to target improvements and identify future program priorities.

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Smart Grid Impact on Intelligent Buildings: Full Report

This research study emphasizes the need for innovative solutions to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of power generation, transmission and consumption capacity. Intelligent buildings are prime examples of innovative technology that will aid in the deployment of new smart grid infrastructure.

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State of the Connected Home Market: Full Report

This report asks what will be required to deliver on the connected home concept, and focuses on key strategies to deliver a quality experience and get (and keep) the attention of consumers.

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Connected Consumer Roadmap: Full Report

This research examines multiple aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem—inside and outside the home—in the areas of health and wellness, entertainment, mobility, transportation, and security. It includes actionable insights on key industry topics.

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Life Cycle Costing of Intelligent Buildings: Full Report

It’s time to embrace life cycle costing approaches (LCC), making it possible to incorporate intelligent design and technology solutions in the early stages of a project. This research offers a detailed blueprint for industry stakeholders to collaborate in order to make LCC a mainstream component in intelligent building projects.

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Monetization of the Connected Home: Full Report

Find actionable data on the ecosystem of the connected home, with detailed recommendations for OEMs, platform and software providers, contractors and installations companies, and utility companies.

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