ABI Research predicts that smart home sensors would exceed four billion installations globally by 2022.
These sensors, embedded in a wide range of smart home devices and appliances, have the potential to change how homes are built, maintained, and managed.
They can deliver near real-time understanding of even slight changes within home environments.
“Smart home sensors will lay the foundation for the automated smart home experience,” says Jonathan Collins, Research Director at ABI Research. “The advanced sensing capabilities will fine-tune new services and applications from home personalization to energy and security management.”
The success of smart home voice control devices, such as the Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Apple’s efforts with Siri and Apple TV, emphasized the ability for audio sensing to not only change actions in the home but to also entice collaboration from a wide range of associated application and service providers.
“Automated home management, grounded in sensing capabilities, has the potential to change how homes are built, owned, shared, and lived in,” concludes Collins.
“Greater home personalization and efficiency can underpin a move to smaller, more shareable living spaces, and the builders and the real estate market are already taking note.”
