Questionnaire Survey Report

 

Q1. Are you familiar with the ECHONET Consortium?

1. Yes 1072. No 52 3. No answer 0
 

Q2. How did you know the ECHONET?

1. Current member --- 22
2. From TV news --- 5
3. From newspapers and magazines --- 31
4. From ECHONET Homepage --- 30
5. From CEATEC JAPAN 2004 Guidebook or Homepage --- 24
6. Others --- 9
Press release (4-32), At CEATEC (1-48, 3-38), Company information (1-30), Introduction by friends or acquaintances (1-11, 4-22), Information on job (1-42, 1-48), Accidental visit (4-24)
 

Q3. Which demonstrations are you interested in? (plural answers available)

1. Interoperability demonstration of air conditioners --- 93
2. Air conditioner control by Power Line Communication Module --- 57
3. BluetoothTM adaptors, System development kit --- 35
4. Low power radio frequency air monitor kits --- 23
5. Middlewares, System development kits --- 24
6. ECHONET service scenario --- 16 (No answer --- 9)
 
 

Q4. which products in the device zone were you interested in? (plural answers available)

1.Middleware adaptors (4 companies) --- 63
2.Radio frequency modules, Powerline communication modules --- 47
3. Middleware adaptors --- 10
4. Radio frequency modules --- 21
5. Blocking filters for powerline communication --- 21
6. Powerline communication demonstration boards, Line-driving application boards --- 17
7. Outline of ECHONET --- 44
8. ECHONET Specifications --- 11
9. Other --- 1 (No answer --- 15)
 
 

Q5. Which services do you expect for ECHONET? (plural answers available)

1. Home amenity services --- 70
2. Home health-care services --- 42
3. Mobile services --- 35
4. Home security services --- 84
5. Energy management services --- 27
6. Appliance remote maintenance services --- 29
7. Others --- 4(No answer --- 3)
*Robot (1-20), Appliance automation (prevention from circuit breaker work)(1-41),
Zero of stand-by power requirement (3-20), Control system of audiovisual equipment (4-28)
 
 

Q6. What is an impression about ECHONET?

1. I am interested in ECHONET --- 149
2. I am not interested in ECHONET --- 1
3. I didn’t find an answer --- 7(no answer --- 2)
 
 

Q7. Do you have an intention to join the ECHONET Consortium?

1. Already a member --- 30 2. begin to consider to join --- 19
3. No plan to join at present --- 95(no answer --- 15)
 
 

Q8. Please write down your opinion to our booth. (Percentage of answer is 11.5%)

 
- It was very helpful, because I wanted to know home networks for white goods. (1-19)
- I have planned a system in my own way for my customer. I want to plan the system by ECHONET again. (1-22)
- It was very interesting. (2-19)
- I think the systems get ahead of last year. (3-1)
- It is anticipated that the systems seem to be realized soon. (3-8)
- Demonstrations are very good. (3-33)
- It was very enjoyable. (4-11)
- It is a small exhibition but made up well.
- Explanations were easy to understand.
   
  Note: the figures in ( ) of each comment correspond to the guest ID code in the attendee list.