www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/22192-smart-homes-not-so-smart-queries-smart-opportunities
Smart Homes, Not-so-Smart Queries, Smart Opportunities
August 26, 2015
Sixteen percent of U.S. broadband households owned a smart home device, and nearly 40 percent planned to buy a smart home product in the next 12 months, suggests a research report Parks Associates released in July. Many of those devices will be self-installed.
By their nature, smart home devices open new and ongoing demands in functionality and interoperability, which become increasingly complex with the addition of every new device. As a result, smart home devices could prompt more than 7 million support requests in 2015, and that number could grow to nearly 11 million by 2019. But there are many opportunities for business in that.