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Want to Boost the Commercial Appeal of Your Smart Home Product? Make It Work with Alexa!
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To succeed in the competitive Home Automation market, a novel connected home solution should exchange data with 3rd-party gadgets and be easy to set up and operate. In an ideal world, the device should also learn homeowners’ preferences and function with little to no human intervention.What we have now is a fragmented market awash in standalone devices. These gadgets often use different connectivity technologies, fail to function in context, and are over-reliant on mobile apps.Does pairing an LED bulb to a mobile app really make it smart? Until recently, Nest thermostats that use reinforcement learning to create custom operating schedules were the closest we’d come to smartphone-less Home Automation. And then voice user interfaces (VUIs) emerged.Although some IoT experts argue consumers want a home that reacts and adapts appropriately to their needs rather than a home that responds to voice commands, the latest market statistics tell a different tale:According to Juniper Research, in just three years voice assistants will live on 8 billion devices globally (up from 2.5 billion gadgets in 2018)Last year, 40% of US consumers had smart speakers, which amounted to over 120 million devices across the country. 75% of respondents reported using the devices daily44% of consumers ...Read More on Datafloq
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