Smart device manufacturers now have to adhere to stricter rules if they want to sell their gadgets in the UK following a new law coming into effect. The law is designed to ensure there is enhanced security around devices such as televisions, fitness trackers and smart speakers that are linked to the internet. These gadgets […]
Parks Associates’ Smart Home Dashboard, quarterly consumer research featuring surveys of US internet households, finds 45 per cent of US internet households have at least one smart home device and 18 per cent have six or more. “Heading into 2024, the profile of the smart home adopter looks different than in the earlier years of […]
In advance of CES in Las Vegas, Parks Associates research reports 92 per cent of US households now have broadband at home. There has been steady growth in smart home and security adoption over the years as US Internet households accumulate more connected devices through an increasingly diverse list of channels, from retail to service […]
Internet service providers can arm their customers with greater home security measures thanks to a new home alarm solution launched for market testing by Gamgee. Blending Wi-Fi sensing and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the new solution intelligently detects and differentiates between family members, pets, guests and intruders in the home. With no cameras, sensors or extra […]
Parks Associates’ research study, Interoperability & Generative AI: Next Generation Smart Home UI, forecasts the annual revenues from core smart home product categories will be $12.6 billion (€11.9bn) in 2027. The report highlights the current state of the smart home market and analyses current efforts, including Matter and generative AI, designed to enable a unified […]
Global shipments of smart home devices continued to decline in the first quarter of 2023 as shipments fell 5.6 per cent year over year to 186.0 million units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker. Smart speakers and networked video entertainment devices faced the steepest declines in the first […]
Following last year’s cooperation announcement between Cablenet and Plume, the partners in intelligent connectivity meet again in Nicosia to review their market success and discuss their expansion plans. A device can only be as smart as the network it is connected to. In an era when consumers rely on multiple devices connecting to and interacting […]
According to a research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of smart homes in Europe and North America reached 120.5 million in 2022. North America is the leading market in terms of penetration and 39.2 per cent of all households in the region had at least one smart home product or […]
Broadband service providers and router suppliers can revolutionise home networking and unlock new revenue streams and upselling opportunities by using a smart home management app which doubles up as a customer engagement tool, according to Gamgee’s CEO Paul Hendriks. Speaking as Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Hendriks said that the smart home of the […]
Plume, the personalised communications services pioneer, has appointed and formed a new board of advisors comprising of highly-experienced telecoms industry and business leaders: Hannes Ametsreiter, former CEO of Vodafone Germany, Cody Sanford, former T-Mobile Executive VP, and Mike Doonan, Managing Partner at SPMB Executive Search will advise Plume’s executive team as global demand for its […]