IDC's Connected Home service guides companies to take advantage of the burgeoning market for connecting consumer digital devices, including personal computers, consumer electronics, communications devices, and home management systems. The service follows the products, services, technologies, vendors, and end users in the networked and connected home market, providing forecasts, competitive analyses, demand-side surveys, and assessments of the market.

• Home networking and connectivity devices, technologies, and retail and service provider channels
• Networked consumer electronics devices and entertainment applications
• Advanced home networking applications such as home monitoring, communications and voice over IP, personal health and wellness, and home control
• Developments of technology and services, including wireless Ethernet, home automation protocols, wireless connectivity technologies, and coax and powerline networking technologies
• Consumer awareness, understanding, and adoption of and interest in home networking and connectivity equipment, applications, and services
• Control points and servers in the home

• Worldwide Home Networking Forecast and Analysis
• Networked Consumer Home Devices Forecast and Analysis
• MarketScape on Retail-Based Networked Video Devices in the Home
• Connected Home Ecosystems in Emerging Markets
• Panel Survey of Broadband Subscribers and Home Network Owners
• Advanced Home Networking Applications

In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct research on specific topics or emerging market segments via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

• Which applications and devices will drive the connected home market, and how quickly?
• How can consumer electronics and PC manufacturers leverage networking technologies to marry devices with online services?
• How will the growth in intensity of home networking usage compare with the growth in overall home networking adoption?
• How does adoption of connected home applications and technologies vary across regions and countries?
• What services around the connected home will consumers embrace, and what are the best methods of developing and delivering those services?
• What role will broadband service providers play in the connected home, and how will they push the market for home networking services?
• How will online consumer behavior change as the Internet invades the living room?

IDC's Connected Home service examines how companies are developing and delivering home networking products and services, and it analyzes the competitive positioning, financial viability, and overall strategic direction of leading home networking companies. Examples of companies tracked include:

2Wire, Access Systems, AMD, Apple, AT&T, Atheros, Belkin, Boxee, Broadcom, Buffalo, Cisco, Comcast, Conexant, Cox Communications, Dell, D-Link, DS2, EchoStar, Ember, Entropic, Freescale Semiconductor, HP, IBM, Imation, Intel, Intellon, LG, Logitech, Matsushita/Panasonic, Microsoft, Motorola, NDS, Netflix, NETGEAR, Nokia, Philips, Pioneer, Qwest, Rovi, Samsung, SBC Communications, Seagate, Siemens, Sony, Sprint, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Time Warner, Toshiba, Verizon, Vizio, Western Digital, Yahoo!, and Zoran.

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