This report provides Transforma Insights’ view on the use of IoT to support Community Heating. Community Heating (CH) involves generating heat in a centralised location and then distributing the heat across businesses, residences and industry. Community heating is most common in colder countries, particularly the Nordic countries, China, Russia, and some parts of North America. Some of the prominent advantages of community heating solutions are energy saving, reduced carbon emissions, and improved load balancing when compared to traditional heating solutions. The market for community heating has been backed by several government initiatives and schemes that support its deployment not only because of the environmental benefits it provides in densely populated areas but also as a method for encouraging employment due to the need for considerable infrastructure investment.
Community heating and cooling systems are gaining traction, yet their deployment is still far behind individual solutions. This is because of several disadvantages including lack of scalability in less densely populated areas, billing complexities, irregular heat distribution, lack of user control, and issues such as overheating in less sophisticated systems.
To improve efficiency, CH systems are increasingly using smart heat meters to measure consumption, detect faults remotely, support load balancing, and help to reduce carbon emissions.
The report provides a detailed definition of the sector, analysis of market development and profiles of the key vendors in the space. It also provides a summary of the current status of adoption and Transforma Insights’ ten-year forecasts for the market. The forecasts include analysis of the number of IoT connections by geography, the technologies used (including splits by 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, LPWA, short range, satellite and others), as well as the revenue split between module, value-added connectivity and services. A full set of forecast data, including country-level forecasts, sector break-downs and public/private network splits, is available through the IoT Forecast tool.
