Standards Alliances and Leading Vendors' Solutions for the Digital Home in Japan

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c85532) has announced the
addition of "The Digital Home in Japan: Standards Alliances and
Leading Vendors' Solutions" to their offering.

Since the late 1990s, Japan has been developing the digital home
concept. So far, the Japanese government and enterprises have achieved
impressive results in broadband network deployment, digital home
Internet access technology, and networked home appliances. Toshiba was
the first leading Japanese vendor to develop a comprehensive networked
appliance solution, followed by Matsushita and Hitachi. The digital
home products are designed to improve convenience and home security,
as well as reduce energy consumption. Japanese vendors have also made
great efforts to unify various digital home standards to achieve
product interoperability, an important concept in digital home. This
report will examine the major trends in the development of digital
home applications and services by the leading Japanese vendors.

List of Topics

Current status of the Japanese digital home market, including the
development of the Japanese digital home policies, such as the e-Japan
Strategy and the u-Japan Policy; existing digital home standard
alliances in Japan, including the ECHONET, the DLNA, the iReady, the
CLEF, and the UOPF; Toshiba, Matsushita, and Hitachi's digital home
solutions as well as comparison of these solutions; leading Japanese
vendors' challenges in developing the digital home market.

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