Der EEBUS Initiative e.V. ist ein unabhängiger Verein mit über 60 Mitgliedern – überwiegend führende europäische Hersteller aus den Bereichen Smart Home, vernetzte Haustechnik, Elektromobilität und Energie.

Im Rahmen der jährlichen Partner-Konferenz war Dr. Bernd Kotschi als führender Experte für Smart Home & Smart Energy Geschäftsmodelle als Keynote Speaker eingeladen.

Ausgewählte Kernaussagen seines Vortrages:

• The landscape of CH platform service providers as well as integration platform models are dramatically changing while vertical-built “silo” products and solutions disappear

• Multiple different platform technology & interoperability approaches exist

• CH companies are now challenged to fully understand the landscape of CH platforms and interoperability options in order to anticipate both, their dynamics and future perspectives.

• In terms of revenue models, predominant categories of CH business models have evolved where only CH components & value added services can generate revenue. Unerringly, there has been no willingness to pay for basic control apps.

• The Home Energy Management (HEM) domain has become a “must have“ product category within whole-home focused Smart Home platforms but sophisticated energy related product & service solutions are rarely offered.

• Transparency and understanding of the predominant CH market mechanisms is a precondition for decision making in terms of strategy, positioning, business model options, and technology.

• A systematic competitor vs. partner & platform interoperability assessment should be undertaken in order to understand the changing landscape from a technological and strategical perspectives

• The EEBus initiative and its members have the opportunity to become a real HEM business ecosystem by creating not only data interoperability models but also by forcing business model and sales driven business partnerships based on the HAN data exchange model.