This report provides Transforma Insights’ view on the Environment Monitoring market. This segment comprises industrial air, water, noise, nuclear radiation, odour detection, river water pollution, and dust monitors placed across industrial sites to monitor pollutants discharged from industrial processes. The segment also includes earthquake, flood, hurricane, and tsunami monitors placed across vulnerable areas to send real-time data to monitoring centres.
Industrial pollution affects millions of lives around the world. Globally, governments are ramping up efforts to lower pollution levels by using alternative sources of energy and monitoring pollution levels using smart environment monitors. By using environment monitors, industries and governments get a better view of the situation and can take appropriate actions to mitigate the risks of air, water, and noise pollution.
Monitoring floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes can help in reducing potential damage these natural disasters can cause. Sensor data can alert monitoring centres and communities of potential risks and provide adequate safety measures.
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 and revenue.
A full set of forecast data, including country-level forecasts, sector breakdowns and public/private network splits, is available through the IoT Forecast tool.
This section first argues that industrialisation (though a cornerstone for economic and social development) has its negative impacts, which can be alleviated using environmental monitoring devices. The report then examines key factors that are influencing the development of the environment monitoring market, including:
This section of the report talks about how various industries are contributing towards industrial pollution, ultimately accelerating the use of smart sensors. For instance, the mining industry pollutes the environment by releasing mine waste, metals, and acidic water into rivers, lakes, and streams, contaminating gallons of water. Pressure on the mining industry to reduce its environmental impact is accelerating the use of smart sensors in and around mines.
This section of the report describes how environment monitoring devices can play a crucial role in better pollution management through various ways, such as by identifying pollutant sources and keeping a check on historical data and trends, helping to lower pollution levels. It also charts the specific advantages of small environment monitoring devices over conventional methods (like not requiring manual readings).
This section discusses how using IoT solutions can help in reducing loss of life and economy due to natural disasters by sending real-time data and insights to response teams, helping to detect potential concerns to lower such dangers.
This section of the report discusses how owing to the increased awareness of high pollution levels and the need to monitor regulatory compliance, many governments around the world are looking to install low-cost, real-time air quality monitors. It also talks about how North American and East Asian countries (such as China, Japan, and South Korea) are responding to the increasing demand for the adoption of air quality monitoring systems.
In a tabular format the section then provides some additional examples of government initiatives that have contributed towards the adoption of Environment Monitoring. This includes countries and regions like China, Taiwan, India, Europe, and the US.
This section briefly talks about how developed countries are outsourcing their manufacturing units to developing countries (often with lesser regulations) but doing this deprives such manufacturing units of the benefits of access to renewable energy (which is more readily available in developed nations), indirectly impacting the environment.
It also discusses the steps international bodies such as the European Union are taking to deal with such issues. For instance, the EU is planning to launch a carbon border tax on imported goods landing in its territory, obliging the importers to pay a price per tonne of CO2 emissions. This will help European countries to comply with the net zero emissions target locally and to make imports from more polluting states less attractive.
This section of the report discusses how communication technologies such as LPWA and cellular are the most common solutions for sensor deployment across industrial plants and cities. It also discusses the advantages of specific technologies over others like LPWA which, owing to its long-battery life, is more useful in remote or difficult-to-reach locations. It also discusses how, in some cases, the use of private cellular networks is also increasing.
This section explains the roles telecom operators like Deutsche Telekom and BT are playing in collecting data to address environmental concerns. For instance, KT collaborated with Air Map Korea to provide air pollution information via an app to its users. It also provides a few examples of relevant IoT deployments in this application, including Exide residential
area (USA) using Aeroqual for air monitoring quality monitoring and soil remediation.
The key vendors section lists some of the main providers of products and services related to the environmental monitoring market such as Aeroqual, Airly, Breeze Technologies, Ecomesure, Ellab, Oizom, Libelium, and Monnit. The report provides profiles of the various vendors including aspects most relevant to this Application Group, such as product offerings, pricing, financial results, and technology.
In the market forecasts section, we provide a summary of the forecasts from the Transforma Insights IoT Forecast Database:
The report charts the growth in the number of environment monitoring devices, which will grow from 26.6 million in 2024 to 89.5 million in 2034.
Transforma Insights forecasts are compiled on a country-by-country basis. This report includes a regional summary, showing splits between Australasia, Greater China, North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America, MENA, Russia & Central Asia, South East Asia, South Korea, India & South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Transforma Insights’ IoT forecasts include splits between the various connectivity technologies as follows: 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G mMTC, 5G non-mMTC, LPWA (non-mMTC), Satellite, Short Range, and Other.
This section discusses which technologies will be used in the environment monitoring application group.
This part of the report discusses the market growth in terms of revenue (module revenue, service wrap revenue, and VAC revenue). Transforma Insights estimates that the revenue in the Environment Monitoring Application Group will grow at a CAGR of 4%.
