[October 25, 2016]

Smart Home Appliances: An Analysis of Major Vendors' Patents - Whirlpool, General Electric, iRobot Corporation, Honeywell, Nest Labs, Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, and Haier - Research and Markets

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Smart Home Appliances: An Analysis of Major Vendors' Patents" report to their offering.

Under the trend of IoT (Internet of Things), the emergence of smart home appliances epitomizes the development of household appliances becoming "smarter."

For the past few years, home appliance brands such as Whirlpool, General Electric, iRobot Corporation, Honeywell, Nest Labs, Samsung (News - Alert), LG, Sony, Panasonic, and Haier have developed various kinds of home appliance products.

This report looks into the important patents related to smart home appliance technologies, and provides an in-depth analysis of their sectors, fields, and key technologies.

List of Topics

- Overview of the major smart home appliance products and vendors, including smart ousehold robot, HVAC, refrigerator, laundry, and TV

- Patent mining procedure and data analysis including patent distribution by country, by sector, and by field of the 1,702 smart home appliance patents identified by the use of data mining technique; also included are the key technology fields identified by the text mining procedure

Key Topics Covered:

1. Overview of Smart Home Appliances

1.1 Smart Household Robot

1.2 Smart HVAC

1.3 Smart Refrigerator

1.4 Smart Laundry

1.5 Smart TV

2. Patent Mining

3. Data Analysis

3.1 Patent Distribution by Country

3.2 Patent Distribution by Sector and by Field

3.3 Key Technologies & Applications

Companies Mentioned

- Bosch

- Electrolux

- General Electric

- Google (News - Alert)

- Haier

- Hisense

- Honeywell

- iRobot Corporation

- LG

- Neato Robotics

- Nest Labs

- Panasonic

- Robmaria

- Samsung

- Siemens (News - Alert)

- Sony

- Whirlpool

For more information about this report visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5ghm6l/smart_home

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