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医療用の位置情報は、Wi-Fi機器ベンダにとっての主要市場である。このセグメントは、Wi-Fi技術を最も早くとりいれてきており、現在もアプリケーションを拡大して、採用の幅を広げている。この調査レポートは、Wi-Fiのハードウェアとソフトウェアとサービスの市場規模を査定し、採用を促進しているデータ接続以外のアプリケーションへの拡大について調査している。Wi-Fi RTLSハードウェアとソフトウェア、Wi-Fiのみ、セルラー/Wi-Fi端末などの主要コンポーネントと、Wi-Fi機能のあるタブレットなどの家電デバイスにも触れている。市場課題と市場可能性、医療現場で利用されるボディエリアネットワークの技術の可能性の予測と分析も記載している。

A sister report to Home Healthcare covered in RR-MEDS-11, this report examines the adoption and potential for embedded wireless devices and networks within the professional healthcare environment. Professional healthcare locations represents a key market for Wi-Fi equipment vendors. This market segment historically has been the earliest of early adopters of new Wi-Fi technology, and has now transitioned into a broadly-adopted technology supporting a growing list of applications.

This study examines the size of the market for Wi-Fi hardware software and services as well as the additional applications beside data connectivity that is driving adoption. As with the earlier iteration of this report, it looks at several key components including Wi-Fi RTLS hardware and software, pure Wi-Fi, and cellular/Wi-Fi handsets, but also adds consumer devices such as Wi-Fi enabled tablets. The report assesses the technology challenges this market presents as well as the potential rewards. Also, in addition to the early versions of this report, this edition also provides discussion, analysis, and forecasts for the potential technologies and their adoption within Medical Body Area Networking applications within the professional healthcare setting.

What Questions Does This Report Answer?

• How is Wi-Fi adoption progressing in healthcare locations around the world?
• What applications are and will leverage Wi-Fi networks within professional healthcare locations?
• What is the potential for body area networking within professional healthcare?
• What are the short range wireless protocols that will succeed in this market?
• What are the factors driving adoption and acceptance of wireless in healthcare?
• What are the hurdles to adoption and acceptance?
• What is the role of regulators in spurring or holding back adoption of wireless in healthcare?

Who Needs This Report?

• Wi-Fi IC manufacturers
• SRW IC manufacturers
• Medical device manufacturers
• Healthcare providers
• Medical IT consulting services providers
• WLAN infrastructure players

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Cisco, Aruba, and Motorola to Benefit from $1.3 Billion Healthcare Wi-Fi Market by 2016

LONDON - August 12, 2011
Wi-Fi has already been widely adopted across professional healthcare locations in North America, but the expansion of existing networks and the growing adoption of Wi-Fi in other regions around the world will ensure that the market for Wi-Fi access point hardware, software, and services will grow to $1.34 billion by 2016.

Wi-Fi-embedded consumer devices are also making their way into professional healthcare locations, furthering the demand for access to professional healthcare Wi-Fi networks. “ABI Research expects the number of smartphone and handheld computing devices leveraging professional healthcare Wi-Fi networks to grow by close to 20% in this market in 2011,” says Jonathan Collins, principal analyst, wireless healthcare and M2M.

Leading Wi-Fi infrastructure vendors including Cisco, Aruba, and Motorola are all focused on the potential for Wi-Fi in healthcare. These companies are set to benefit as customers not only build out their networks, but also turn to established vendors and their partners to deliver management for networks and the growing number of applications that will leverage that connectivity.

Existing Wi-Fi-based applications such as Voice over Wi-Fi and RTLS (real-time location systems), will increasingly be joined by a new generation of “medical body area networks” (MBANs), which are positioned to also leverage Wi-Fi connectivity through gateway devices that take advantage of Wi-Fi connectivity to support mobile monitoring capability. The global MBAN market within professional healthcare will see nearly 30 million devices shipped annually by 2016.

ABI Research’s new study, “Wireless Technologies in Professional Healthcare,” examines the size of the market for Wi-Fi hardware and services, looking at both the current challenges and potential rewards. It forecasts the possible adoption of various technologies in medical body area network applications within the professional healthcare setting.

It is part of both the Wireless Connectivity and Wireless Healthcare Research Services, which include other Research Reports, Market Data, ABI Insights, Vendor Matrices, and Tear Downs.