Daniel Herscovici, Xfinity Home and Comcast general manager and senior vice president, told Digital Trends that the company is «looking to drive
smart home adoption to the masses» with the company's latest announcement.
Meanwhile the rise of voice assistants has powered
smart home adoption over the last year; we were hard - pressed to find a smart home device at CES that doesn't interact with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.
The company believes «devices are your personal property» and considering privacy is a barrier for
smart home adoption, the Essential Home could use this feature as a way to compete with the Amazon Echo and Google Home.
Given the rapid growth in smart speaker and
smart home adoption, it is not surprising that home builders such as Lennar would be looking at adding these amenities to entice buyers.
Not exact matches
Technology research firm Gartner predicts that by 2022, a typical family
home will contain at least 500
smart devices, with overall
adoption increasing 30-fold from 2009 to 2020.
The US
smart home market is only now entering the mass market phase of consumer
adoption and overcoming the chasm that it sat in back in 2015.
The success of Amazon's Echo rapidly accelerated the
adoption of
Smart Home technology for everyday consumers, but it's not the only reason that mass consumers are embracing the concept of the
Smart Home.
David Watkins is Service Director for Connected
Home Devices at research firm Strategy Analytics and one of the leading analysts tracking voice assistant and
smart speaker
adoption globally.
David takes a data - first approach to analyzing
adoption of Amazon Echo, Google
Home, Apple HomePod, Alibaba Tmall Genie and dozens of other
smart speakers under development by software companies, device manufacturers and telcos.
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Extending a utility's ability to communicate with
homes means faster and easier
adoption of
smart metering across the board.
Extending the reach of the existing AMI network into the
home could help speed
adoption of
smart energy solutions for the
home by allowing utilities to easily extend demand response and variable pricing programs to their residential customers.
The event will bring together industry leaders, utilities, and analysts to examine
adoption trends for
smart home and energy management products, expansion of energy efficiency and DR programs, and the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies with existing utility programs.
There could be privacy concerns with such technology, as well as cost: even though no price is available for the
Smart Home in a Box yet, widespread
adoption may be limited unless insurance companies support it.
Despite the increased
adoption of
smart speakers with voice control capabilities, the new report points out that the majority of voice assistant usage won't be through these in -
home devices.
Perhaps the biggest trend emerging over the past year has been the snappy
adoption of
smart home speakers, such as Amazon's Echo range and the Google Home
home speakers, such as Amazon's Echo range and the Google
Home Home hub.
It's been our experience that the novelty of simply controlling devices via a smartphone can get pretty tedious pretty fast — in fact we'd say this is an overarching problem with
smart -
home adoption in the long term.
Considering that privacy concerns are one of the main barriers to
smart speaker
adoption, will consumers really want to an «always listening» Facebook device into their
homes?
The
Smart Audio Report, Fall / Winter 2017 release also reveals how voice - activation in the home is fueling adoption of smart technology broadly — including smart home applications — and affecting how often consumers engage with other platforms throughout the day, including televi
Smart Audio Report, Fall / Winter 2017 release also reveals how voice - activation in the
home is fueling
adoption of
smart technology broadly — including smart home applications — and affecting how often consumers engage with other platforms throughout the day, including televi
smart technology broadly — including
smart home applications — and affecting how often consumers engage with other platforms throughout the day, including televi
smart home applications — and affecting how often consumers engage with other platforms throughout the day, including television.
Beyond just increasing sales from Apple's music service, a more affordable HomePod would likely increase
adoption of the company's HomeKit
smart home products.
David takes a data - first approach to analyzing
adoption of Amazon Echo, Google
Home, Apple HomePod, Alibaba Tmall Genie and dozens of other
smart speakers under development by software companies, device manufacturers and telcos.
Despite the number of
smart home devices on the market, the one thing missing is consumer
adoption.
In addition, the rise of
smart speakers with voice assistants has made it more convenient to listen to audio recordings in the
home, helping to boost
adoption further.
Voice app growth, rapid consumer
adoption, monetization,
smart speakers vs voice assistants on smartphones, the YouTube kerfuffle, the Google
Home Mini recording fiasco, will.i.am raising over $ 100 million and much more.
Partnering with a company like Conexant, which has a direct in to supply chains will only serve to accelerate that
adoption, giving Amazon an even stronger foothold in the
smart home.
Adoption by consumers, however, was perhaps slower, hampered by the dozens of apps available, one per
smart home product.
If
smart home devices do take off and
adoption rates increase then even more privacy concerns will follow.
This coincides with increased
adoption of
smart home hubs like the Amazon Echo, not to mention wider availability of Internet of Things gadgets, in general, from thermostats to
smart locks.
He also says entertainment «will be a main driver for mass
adoption of
smart home products», which seems to be the true aim of this API.
Researchers found that
adoption rates were 5 to 6 percent higher in the U.S., where
smart home devices were mostly first marketed.
Keep in mind, though, that the cost of
smart -
home features has been a hindrance to widespread
adoption.
In fact, it may be just the piece that fuels higher
adoption of
smart -
home gadgets.
But as
adoption of
smart -
home technology becomes more widespread, so do data security protections, says Mitchell Klein, executive director of Z - Wave Alliance, a
smart technology think tank.
The growing
adoption of
smart, connected devices such as smartphones and the spread of wired and wireless broadband is allowing users to connect to their
homes with equipment they already have.