According to new ARC Advisory Group research, demand for drone inspection services in companies operating in asset-intensive process industries will be robust as the desire to keep employees safe from working in inaccessible areas or confined spaces or completing dangerous tasks remains paramount for a growing number of companies and companies find outsourcing such operations an attractive option. The drone inspection service market is comprised of drone service providers deploying unmanned aerial systems or drones designed to operate in hard-to-reach areas and confined spaces and/or perform dangerous tasks in order to ensure employee safety, save time and money, and provide operational improvements via automation and digitalization.

"Enhancements such as advanced sensor payloads, cameras and on-board computing, and advanced processing using AI to enable autonomous navigation and operations are enabling drone service providers to tackle increasingly more complex tasks while helping to keep employees safe and serve as a mobile inspection platform enabling automated data collection and analysis," according to Tim Shea, Senior Analyst and key author of ARC's Drone Inspection Services Market Research.

Drone Inspection Services Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• Drones Are Incorporating Increasing Levels of Intelligence, Autonomy, and Digitalization 
• End Users Are Striving for Autonomous Operations and Drone Services Seen as Key Enabler 
• Impact of the Pandemic Expedited the Need for Remote Operations
• Regulations Are Slowly Evolving, and Adoption Is Growing

Leading Suppliers to the Drone Inspection Services Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: Aerodyne, American Robotics, Cyberhawk, PrecisionHawk, Terra Drone.

About the Drone Inspection Services Research

The Drone Inspection Services report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts. The report segmentation includes Revenue Category, Sales Channel, World Region, Industry, Customer Type, Application.

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

• MIRA Service: An annual subscription service that provides a unique online environment to each customer, together with all the necessary user interface apps and datasets. MIRA unlocks the full benefits of ARC’s time-tested market intelligence by leveraging the latest analytical tools and technologies to allow you to make more actionable, real-time business decisions.    Interactive access to ARC’s qualitative analysis is displayed in context with up-to-date market data, allowing clients to develop customized views of the market to best suit their needs.
• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel Power Pivot, sold with Market Analysis Report PDF): A standard Excel Workbook, including base year market data and a five-year market forecast. This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate data, making it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports, including up to five years of historical analysis.
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF): This wide-screen presentation format provides executives, business unit managers, and other authorized users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.

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ARC Advisory Group’s recent research reveals that the worldwide market for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for water & wastewater applications is expanding as new water infrastructure is constructed in emerging markets and newly developed regions. The existing water & wastewater monitoring and control infrastructure is also being upgraded to improve core business process efficiency. With the increasing demand for efficiency at water utilities, the importance of high-performance SCADA technology has grown. Leading suppliers are continuously upgrading their SCADA systems with intelligent software platforms that can deal with various requirements like on-premises, on the edge, and the cloud.

"Cloud-based SCADA will be a significant driver for future market growth. The resulting IT savings, inherent redundancy, increased up-time, and other obvious benefits make SCADA in the Cloud very attractive, particularly since control itself is pushed to the edge and the need for real-time control from the host system is minimal. The convergence of information technology (IT) and SCADA technology drives SCADA to become a more integrated part of overall operations. Technology drivers such as the proliferation of industrial Ethernet networks, wireless mobile applications, and wireless networks for plants are fast tracking the trend of tying SCADA to other business systems, such as performance software, electronic work instructions, GIS, asset management, CMMS, SOP, and hydraulic modeling software," according to Vidya Prasad, Senior Analyst and key author of ARC's SCADA Systems for Water and Wastewater Market Research.

SCADA Systems for Water and Wastewater Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the research also addresses key market trends as follows:

• Convergence of Information Technology (IT) and SCADA Technology Drives SCADA to Become a More Integrated Part of Overall Operations 
• SCADA Solutions Are Becoming More and More Affordable
• Virtualization

Leading Suppliers to the SCADA Systems for Water and Wastewater Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: ABB, AVEVA, General Electric, Mitsubishi Electric, Siemens.

About the SCADA Systems for Water and Wastewater Research

The SCADA Systems for Water and Wastewater research explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts. The research segmentation includes Revenue Category, Sales Channel, World Region, Industry, Customer Type, Service Revenues by Type, Project Type, Software Revenues by Type, Hardware Revenues by Type, Project Size, Overall Scope, Platform Software by Deployment Model, Application Software by Type.

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

• MIRA Service:  An annual subscription service that provides a unique online environment to each customer, together with all the necessary user interface apps and datasets. MIRA unlocks the full benefits of ARC’s time-tested market intelligence by leveraging the latest analytical tools and technologies to allow you to make more actionable, real-time business decisions.   Interactive access to ARC’s qualitative analysis is displayed in context with up-to-date market data, allowing clients to develop customized views of the market to best suit their needs.  
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF):  This wide-screen presentation format provides executives, business unit managers, and other users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.
• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel Power Pivot, sold with Market Analysis Report PDF):  A standard Excel Workbook, including base year market data and a five-year market forecast. This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate data, making it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Analysis Services section.

The ARC Grid Automation market report provides critical insight into the challenging issues faced by utilities and grid automation suppliers as the world struggles with the energy transition. The grid automation report covers measuring devices, control and protection devices, control and data gathering communications, and a wide class of operational execution systems. The report scope includes DMS, ADMS, TMS, EMS, OMS, WAMS, VVC, LFA, forecasting, GIS, and the services that go with these products. Grid automation spans a wide range of suppliers and technologies, but fundamentally it is focused on reliability, cost of power, and meeting environmental goals. Grid regulators and operators will be introducing new energy, ancillary service, and capacity markets and new policies that will drive investment in new generation, storage, transmission, distribution, and demand response software and hardware.

"The energy transition and the evolution of electric grids around the world is seeing unprecedented new generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure. There is no single grid automation strategy for this, but a complex collection of automation technologies that improve the design, installation, and integration of these new grid components. There will be some failures and even the best futurists may be surprised, but there is an incredible resolve to substantially re-invent our electric grid with clean energy. The ARC grid automation market report can help you keep track of the technology and issues that leading suppliers are solving to enable this incredible energy transition and digital transformation," according to Rick Rys, Senior Consultant and key author of ARC's Grid Automation Market Research Report.

Grid Automation Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• Digitalization Improvements 
• Grid Interactive Customers 
• Increased Power Consumption 
• More Distributed Generation

Leading Suppliers to the Grid Automation Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: General Electric, Hitachi Energy, NARI Technology, Schneider Electric, Siemens.

About the Grid Automation Research

The Grid Automation report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts and 1 year of historical analysis segmented by Revenue Category, Sales Channel, World Region, Customer Type, Service Revenues by Type, Project Type, Grid Location, Hardware Revenues by Type, Software Revenues by Application, Site Type, Project Size.

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel Power Pivot):A standard Workbook includes the base year market data and a five-year market forecast. This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate the data to make it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports. Available with 1 year of historical analysis.
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF): This wide-screen presentation format makes it much easier to find detailed information on a market. This new format provides executives, business unit managers, and other authorized users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

ARC’s new report on the Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging market reveals that EV charging will soon be ubiquitous, often exceeding the service levels of gas and diesel fueling stations. ARC’s new report examines the top providers and trends in the electric vehicle charging systems market. ARC forecasts strong and robust growth overall. Within regional and even local market ecosystems, the end user market perspective of EVs offering lower cost per mile with a lower total lifecycle cost is now taking hold. Charging systems are being closely aligned with their underlying vehicular applications, from singular home charging to a variety of fleet charging scenarios. Similarly, a range of supported charger ancillary functions continue to develop, often unique to each economy.

"While growth is accelerating, in general, the inflection point for each economy will tend to occur when the perceived cost of electrified transportation is below that of ICE vehicles. In developed counties these are likely to be four wheeled vehicles, while in developing economies, two and three wheeled vehicles will lead in adoption. Similarly, charging business processes differ by economy and geography where some operators of fleet charging operations allow public charging during off hours," according to Jim Frazer, Market Analyst and key author of ARC's Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Systems Market Research Report.

Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• Electrification of All Fossil Fueled Vehicles and Devices
• ICE Fuel Cost
• Government Mandates 
• Portable Chargers

Leading Suppliers to the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: ChargePoint, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Tesla, WallBox.

About the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Systems Research

The Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Systems report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts segmented by Revenue Category, Sales Channel, World Region, Customer Type, Level.

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel Power Pivot): A standard Workbook includes the base year market data and a five-year market forecast. This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate the data to make it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports.
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF): This wide-screen presentation format makes it much easier to find detailed information on a market. This new format provides executives, business unit managers, and other authorized users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

The Grid Scale Batteries market has had robust growth in 2021, despite the pandemic. This was driven by the fact that the shift to renewable generation has not slowed, but actually accelerated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, owing to easy monetary and fiscal policy, “build back better” programs focusing on sustainability, and the continuing reduction in technology costs. In addition to aggressive fiscal policy, central banks in the world’s largest economies slashed interest rates to zero. With borrowing costs low, investors are finding it easier to finance energy storage installations

"Sustainability has become an ever more central issue in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted our vulnerability to global natural catastrophe and the possibility of constructive action to mitigate that. One of the most significant avenues is decarbonization of the electricity sector with intermittent renewables, accelerating the market for storage solutions. With extreme weather challenging electric grids and geopolitical tensions simmering, governments worldwide are increasingly viewing a stable grid and adequate backup power as a matter of national security. Some governments are also adding decarbonization and climate resilience to that list. Energy storage is finding a role in all of these," according to Rick Rys, Senior Analyst and key author of ARC's Grid Scale Batteries Market Research Report.

Grid Scale Batteries Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• Utilities Want to Own the Energy Transition 
• Storage as a Matter of National Security
• Customers Utilizing Storage for Ever More Use Cases

Leading Suppliers to the Grid Scale Batteries Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: CATL, Fluence, Samsung, Tesla, TotalEnergies.

About the Grid Scale Batteries Research    

The Grid-scale Batteries report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts segmented by World Region, Revenue Category, Mode, Customer, and Storage Type.

This new research is available as a Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF) which provides executives, business unit managers, and other authorized users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

ARC Advisory Group’s Transportation Infrastructure Automation Systems report reveals that transportation infrastructure requires sophisticated systems to enable and unlock seamless mobility. Today, markets around the world are going through a rigorous transportation policy change to make networks ready for new types of traffic. Higher government funding and spending for transportation will stimulate the demand for automation and maintenance for operators. The transportation industry, in general, will grow robustly over the forecast period because as urbanization increases, so does the demand for transportation capacity, both for people and goods. This will trigger investment to build better infrastructure to serve growing cities and communities.

"To meet numerous challenges such as urbanization, demographic development, climate change, security, accessibility, seamless operation, and connectivity, the global transportation sector heavily depends on its innovative potential to deliver smart solutions. The greatest challenge, however, is to meet all the above goals while remaining economically sustainable. Growth in rail and road infrastructure projects, such as the development of long-distance rail journeys, has increased the demand for intercity travel, and the emergence of smart cities will call for sophisticated, resilient, and safe rail systems. This trend will boost the demand for industrial automation in the transportation infrastructure industry," according to Wasay Rashid, Analyst and key author of ARC's Transportation Infrastructure Automation Systems Market Research Report.

Transportation Infrastructure Automation Systems Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• Attractiveness of Industrial Automation Systems 
• Digitalization
• Growth in Railway Investments 
• Outcome-as-a-Service

About the Transportation Infrastructure Automation Systems Research

The Transportation Infrastructure Automation Systems report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecastsWorld Region, Unit Type Total, Revenue Category, PLC, Panels, LV Drives, IPC, Industry, HMI, Ethernet Switches.

This new research is available as a Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF) which provides executives, business unit managers, and other authorized users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.