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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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Joseph Branca
| 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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Joseph Branca
| 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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William Ablondi
| Jun 18, 2015
William Ablondi, Director, Smart Home Strategies, Strategy Analytics
Strategy Analytics has recently been really digging into different types of features and ca...
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William Ablondi
| Mar 31, 2015
Smart Bulbs – LED bulbs with wireless radios built in, which can be controlled remotely – have been around for several years, but the number of manu...
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William Ablondi
| Oct 01, 2014
On September 30, AT&T hosted a group of financial analysts to learn details of their progress and plans for Digital Life and Connected Car platforms. Firs...
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William Ablondi
| Aug 22, 2014
Summer’s not over and neither is the stream of new entrants in the Smart Home market. Last week Smart Home Ventures came out of the woodwork announcing i...
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William Ablondi
| Aug 15, 2014
Those tracking the Smart Home market have seen a plethora of DIY systems debuting recently – Wink among them. It’s beginning to get difficult to d...
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David Mercer
| Jul 16, 2014
Like most former incumbent or monopoly utilities or telecoms providers, the UK’s British Gas suffers perhaps unduly from a residual image problem associat...
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William Ablondi
| Feb 25, 2014
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a buzzword of the connected home space which includes all things smart for the home. The 2014 CES was a perfect example ...
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William Ablondi
| Jan 22, 2014
The Internet of Things (IoT) was the buzzword for all things smart for the home at the 2014 CES. Elegantly designed point solutions from light bulbs to door loc...
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