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David Mercer
| May 11, 2020
The end to lockdown restrictions is beginning in many countries, if tentatively and in many different ways. Our latest survey, carried out with 1243 respondents...
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William Ablondi
| Mar 20, 2020
It became official on Wednesday March 11: COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The outbreak of the coronavirus has spread from Asi...
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Jack Narcotta
| Dec 23, 2019
The December 18, 2019, announcement of Project Connected Home over IP could be the moment the smart home market has been waiting for. The smart home market is i...
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Jack Narcotta
| May 10, 2019
Google’s unveiling of the Nest Hub Max earlier this week at its annual I/O event isn’t particularly surprising. It’s a natural, if not expecte...
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Jack Narcotta
| Nov 19, 2018
Legrand’s acquisition of smart home device company Netatmo highlights the more prominent role an end-to-end ecosystem is playing, and will play, in the sm...
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Jack Narcotta
| Sep 13, 2018
Hampton’s ARRAY Wi-Fi smart lock is a hub-free smart home device, marking another entry in a small, but growing, segment of the smart home device market. ...
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Jack Narcotta
| Jul 18, 2018
The next stage in the evolution of the smart home, it would appear, won’t be about placing more Echo Dots (or Google Home Minis, for that matter) around a...
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Jack Narcotta
| Jun 18, 2018
“Power to the people” as the saying goes, and that message is coming through loud and clear in the smart home security market. Do-it-yourself smart ...
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Jack Narcotta
| Apr 30, 2018
Security service provider incumbents beware: the Amazon juggernaut has set its gaze on the smart home market, and security is front-and-center. A quiet launch i...
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Jack Narcotta
| Apr 17, 2018
Smart home surveillance cameras are fast-approaching the mainstream consumer mindset, priming this market for steady annual growth through 2023. Platform compan...
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Jack Narcotta
| Feb 19, 2018
With the acquisition of Blink in December 2017, Amazon is hedging its bets that trends and dynamics in the smart home camera market, and arguably most smart hom...
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William Ablondi
| Mar 20, 2017
Way back in 2014 Apple announced HomeKit for its upcoming iOS 8 on the opening day of its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). At the time it describe...
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William Ablondi
| Oct 13, 2016
Well, it wasn’t really a movie, but there were some videos of Vivint’s latest product portfolio on the screen at the back of the room J
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William Ablondi
| Sep 07, 2016
Last week O2 launched O2 Home commercially. It had been trialing the service with 75 or so consumers, but now it’s beginning to roll it out across the UK....
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William Ablondi
| Dec 15, 2015
Doom & Gloom Get the Headlines, but Fact Is the Smart Home Market is Growing Big Time
Earlier this year there was a report of a decline in interest in the...
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| Nov 20, 2015
In a November 2015 report titled Smart Home Platforms: Competitive Comparisons, Strategy Analytics profiles more than 50 platforms that help to enable...
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William Ablondi
| Nov 03, 2015
Retailers are beginning to move into the Smart Home market in many countries and the UK is no exception. A year or two ago I didn’t hear retailers in Euro...
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David Mercer
| Sep 23, 2015
Key Takeaways: Peak IoT was reached at IFA 2015 Successful consumer IoT firms will benefit from focusing on specific IoT applications Berlin’s annual In...
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William Ablondi
| Jul 16, 2015
British Gas released details of its much needed Hive Active Heating refresh calling it by the same name, but with a “2”. While Hive 2 is much bet...
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| Jul 15, 2015
One of the clear takeaways from Strategy Analytics’ recent Smart Home Consumer Survey is that the market for security services holds a lot of potential....
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