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Smart cities are developed urban areas designed with a perspective of creating high quality of life and sustainable economic development by through advancement in several key sectors including technology, economy, environment, mobility, people, and government. The concept of smart cities is aimed to offer a set of infrastructure and new generation services with the support of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Globally, there has been rapid growth in urbanization; however, unplanned urbanization is leading to several constraints to sustainable growth. This is leading to demand for planned urbanization. The growth in urban areas is increasing due to better infrastructure, healthcare, the quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure. The global smart cities market has observed significant growth in the past few years and is expected to continue growing at a significant rate. Some of the factors supporting the growth of smart cities include increasing rural to urban migration, energy consciousness, need for green infrastructure, and time savings among others.

Home energy management systems, or HEMS, are enabling devices for home owners that act as intermediary platforms for a user to manage and monitor their overall consumption of energy on a regular basis. HEMS are therefore useful when it comes to conserving energy and minimizing energy losses over an average day. The global home energy management systems market is currently developing at a very swift pace in order to meet with the growing energy crunch faced by the world. The depleting stockpiles of fossil fuels are making it more and more important for all sectors to buckle up and start taking serious efforts to conserve energy.

Ceramics are non-metallic inorganic solids with high strength and hardness, high melting point, and good thermal and electric insulation property. Advanced ceramics, also known as functional ceramics or fine ceramics, are of powder type. They are formed from oxides, non-oxides, or both; unlike traditional ceramics that are made of clay. High technology and advanced production techniques are used in the processing of advanced ceramics.

Polyolefin and other plastic films tend to adhere together due to the Van Der Waal force or due to presence of lower molecular species known as Oligomers, which often makes it difficult to separate layers. Antiblock additive can be added to plastics to prevent undesired adhesion and thus lower the blocking force between film layers during unwinding. This makes the whole process easy during the time of production as well as during the later usage of the product. Packaging is one of the important applications of antiblock additive. It is used in various end-use industries such as food and pharmaceuticals.

Vanadium is a very hard metal which is light silvery in color, brittle, and stable in dry air at room temperature. It ranks seventeenth among the metals available in the earth's crust but is considered to be rare as it is present in a dispersed form and its extraction and mining is very costly. Vanadium is not found in the elemental state but in a chemically combined form.

The global ceramic tiles market is prophesied to be privileged with a heightened demand across several regions of the world on account of a noteworthy upturn in construction activities due to rising urbanization. Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and various other economies such as Brazil and Turkey are anticipated to testify an extensive propulsion in the sale of ceramic tiles. In the next few years, the demand for ceramic tiles could escalate tellingly as a result of consumers gaining more aesthetical consciousness and witnessing an upward thrust in the increase of their disposable income.

Roofing materials are a vital necessity in construction, as they comprise the primary barrier against natural elements such as rain. The growth of the construction industry in recent years has thus been vital for the global roofing market. The roofing market has benefited from the diversity of construction activities demanded across the world, as it has led to steady investment and consolidation of lucrative revenue avenues. The global roofing market is likely to exhibit consistent growth in the coming years on the back of the continued construction industry boom in developing regions.

The Canada concrete floor coatings market features a highly consolidated competitive landscape, with the top five contributors to the market holding a substantial 70% of the overall market in 2016, says Transparency Market Research in a recent report. Strong growth of these leading companies, namely The Sherwin Williams Company, PPG Industries Inc., BASF SE, RPM International Inc., and Sika AG, is largely attributed to their continual efforts towards attaining technological expertise and introducing innovative products to the market.

Most of the low to medium income, developing nations are many times deprived of medical and other healthcare facilities, due to several reasons such as distance between the patient and healthcare service providers and others. Researchers have devised an important solution to this by creating medical diagnostic applications that are really small and can fit into the objects that people are already using in their day to day life. Cell phones were identified as one such object that can bring the hospital to the door or in the hand of the patient. Some of the emerging cell phone-enabled diagnostics include, cell-phone lensfree microscope, cell-phone based imaging using microchip ELISA, mobile phone based clinical microscopy, cell-phone based platform as a biomedical device and telemedicine tools using mobile phone cameras along with paper microfluidics. Some of the examples of these cell phone-based diagnostic tests applications are Roche's Accu-ChekA Glucose Buddy, which is an iPhone application and Arkray's Smart e-SMBG, which is an android application. Tests for sexually transmitted diseases and many other infectious diseases are in huge demand worldwide, which are in their developmental stages at different universities and companies. The cell phone-enabled diagnostics market can be classified into five major segments, namely, cell phone-enabled diagnostics for diabetes, cell phone-enabled rapid immunoassays, cell-phone enabled microscopy, and cell phone-enabled molecular tests.

According to the findings of a recent report by Transparency Market Research (TMR), the global biopesticides market is consolidated in nature with top five companies reserving 50% of the shares in 2014. Some of the leading companies identified by the report in the global biopesticides market are BASF SE, Bayer CropScience AG, Valent Biosciences Corp, Arysta LifeSciences, Novozymes A/S, and Dow AgroSciences. The market is currently in development stage and challenge from synthetic pesticides is stiff. Vendors of this market are finding it hard to demonstrate their products in order to convince farmers to switch off their traditional products.