We are continuously gathering all of the Twitter traffic around IoT. It’s a dataset that goes back years! When you have ALL of the data, the ability to ask questions like “Which IoT Use Case is getting the most attention?” becomes a fascinatingly simple exercise. Answering this question is the beginning of understand what Use […]
So this week, Silicon Valley is all abuzz with the IoT World event happening over at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Informa is touting at least 10,000 visitors. With a party that big, you’d think there would be ripple effects throughout the universe. Turns out not so much… Given how big the event was last […]
I opened a Comtech Forum event on connecting the Internet of Things with this presentation. A couple of key pieces from the presentation I’ll spend a bit more time here describing. Connecting IoT: Mindshare Snapshot of IoT Protocols from John Feland The first is a meta analysis across multiple IoT device forecasts. While everyone has […]
While much of the Smart Home market is focused on Do It Yourself, there has also been robust demand within the Do It For Me part of the market supported by Smart Home Service providers like Vivint or Comcast Xfinity Home. While overall consumer interest declined in Q1 2017 over Q4 2016, March 2017 saw […]
Smart Lock interest grew in 2017 as consumers holiday purchases turned into Saturday morning honey-dos. The big winners in Q1 were Schlage, August and Kwikset. The rest of the competitive landscape is littered with products that have been disappointing consumers persistently. Schlage is leaps and bounds ahead of their competition, not only seeing increases in […]
With the close of the first quarter of 2017, we can start culling through all of the consumer reactions to Smart Home devices they have purchased in the last three months. One market segment that is always of interest is Security Cameras. The Nest Cam and Arlo are flagship products in this category that still […]