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Gamgee: Smart home management apps should engage consumers

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 […]

March 1, 2023

Plume names new board of advisors

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 […]

December 14, 2022

Plume, Liberty deliver smart services in Puerto Rico

Liberty Latin America (LLA) and Plume, the personalised communications services pioneer, have announced a strategic partnership to bring new digital subscriber services to Puerto Rico, with the launch of the new WOWfi powered by Plume HomePass service to consumers throughout the island. The launch includes the deployment of Plume’s SaaS Experience Platform—including Plume’s HomePass Smart […]

October 19, 2022

Research: 38% US homes own smart home device

Parks Associates’ consumer survey work of 10,000 US Internet households shows that 38 per cent of households own at least one smart home device, up 2 per cent from a year ago. Consumers continue to buy connected products; 27 per cent of US Internet households report buying a smart home device in the past 12 […]

October 11, 2022

Report: Major shifts in smart home usage

Findings from the first biannual Plume IQ Smart Home Market Report from personalised communications services specialist Plume reveal comprehensive intelligence about the growth of the smart home sector, including the changing popularity, penetration and usage of connected devices and home networks. The report analyses anonymised and aggregated data from a cross-section of the 41 million […]

August 31, 2022

Forecast: Installed smart devices to exceed 2bn in 2022

The global smart home market is expected to experience consecutive years of softening growth starting in 2021 before an upward trajectory resumes in 2023 according to Omdia. The downward trend is attributed to a combination of factors including wage stagnation, increased unemployment and a large decline in projected retail sales, especially in 2022. Strong growth, […]

August 17, 2022

Report: Smart home devices market grew 11.7% in 2021

The global market for smart home devices grew 11.7 per cent in 2021 compared to 2020 with more than 895 million devices shipped, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker. Notwithstanding the market volatility due to the pandemic and its impact on supply chains as well as demand-side shocks, IDC […]

April 27, 2022

Report: 105m smart homes in Europe, North America

According to a research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number smart homes in Europe and North America reached 105 million in 2021. The most advanced smart home market is North America, having an installed base of 51.3 million smart homes at the end of the year. This represents a penetration rate […]

April 21, 2022

Research: Smart home device adoption on rise

Findings from research firm Parks Associates indicate that 88 per cent of US households have broadband, with an increasing number of connected devices tapping into high-speed connections to deliver safety, security, convenience, and energy-saving use cases. The firm’s latest whitepaper, Smart Products: Building the Modern Home, developed for GE Appliances and released ahead of the […]

July 23, 2021

Plume shares smart home insights

Personalised smart services specialist Plume has released data and insights into smart home trends resulting from increases in the number of devices, types of devices, hours used and data used across smart homes. This comes as it surpasses what it says is a major milestone: more than 1 billion unique client devices have been managed […]

July 22, 2021By Colin Mann