Smart homes and smart buildings are no longer a collection of point solutions. Interoperability is the new battleground, and short-range wireless is the connectivity fabric holding it together. This white paper breaks down the protocols, the market forecasts and the module and antenna choices that decide whether a deployment scales or stalls.
What you'll learn
- Why Matter and multi-protocol design are ending vendor lock-in, without a repeat of the VHS vs BetaMax era
- The numbers behind the growth, including a projected US$311.22 billion smart home market by 2031 and a 525% surge in smart building deployments by 2030
- How Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Thread, Zigbee, UWB and Wi-Fi HaLow compare across power, range, cost and data rate
- How to match the right connectivity technology to smart locks, sensors, gateways, cameras and building automation
- A guide to Quectel's short-range module and antenna portfolio for smart home and smart building designs