by Rebecca Walker — February 10, 2010—The global market for building automation systems is expected to exceed $36 billion, according to a new study released by ABI Research, a market analyst specializing in global connectivity and emerging technology.
The study, “Energy Management and Commercial Building Automation,” projects a three percent increase in growth by 2015.
Building automation systems (BAS) deliver a distributed management system to control and maintain a building’s internal environment. They comprise a computerized, intelligent network of electronic devices, designed to monitor and control the mechanical and lighting systems in a building. The BAS market is dominated by a handful of players offering complete systems from field devices to management and service installations, notes the report.
However, the market is poised for change. Increased emphasis on energy efficiency at organizational and governmental levels has combined with a push for more open systems supporting multi-vendor deployments, and both are bringing in new providers to the BAS space.
Extending BAS management to enterprise IT networks at the control level and adding wireless connectivity to traditionally wired field devices is expanding the role and reach of the BASs.
This report examines the potential impact of these and other key factors upon the BAS market and provides market forecasts for equipment, software and services as well as wired and wireless connectivity out to 2015.
For more information, see the Web site of ABI Research.
