Rather than reaching for your phone,
smart home companies want to cut down distractions with more elegant solutions.
Not exact matches
It's expected that the
smart home market will be worth $ 122 billion by 2022, and every
company wants a piece of that pie.
Alexa is at the center of Amazon's
smart home ambitions and the
company wants potential customers to see just how a
smart home can be powered by its digital personal assistant.
Loads of
smart home companies are launching security solutions that make it easy to keep an eye on things from one access point whether you
want to stick with a single brand or mix and match.
In a statement to Tom's Guide, a Google spokesperson said that the
company takes «user privacy and product quality concerns very seriously,» and
wants to ensure anyone who uses the disc - like
smart home device has «complete peace of mind.»
Honeywell has used a crowd - funding site to introduce a
smart home security system.The
company, which makes a range of products that can be found in more than 150 million
homes and 10 million businesses,
wants to give Nest Secure and Ring Protect a run... Read more
With Echo and Google
Home,
smart speakers are starting to make their way into people's homes.That's not the only way these two
companies want... Read more
Amazon
wants to dominate the
smart home space.The
company has agreed to acquire Ring, a
smart home company, for more than $ 1 billion, according to Reuters.
That poses a problem for
companies like Comcast that
want way more
homes to be
smart.
Yes, the
company believes in the future of
smart homes, but at the same time, it
wants to approach it differently than typical solutions such as automation and «opaque devices with blinking lights.»
In addition to bringing the digital assistant to other phones, the
company reportedly
wants to expand it to other products — not just a
smart speaker, but its
home appliances as well.
Do a bit of
smart company research (hint:
company career websites talk a lot about culture), understand what you
want out of your next workplace, and look for a place where you'll feel more at
home.