The State of Smart Home Standards

According to the most recent analysis from Berg Insight, 44 percent of American homes and 35 percent of European homes are projected to be smart homes by 2022. And not that you need a Swedish market research firm to tell you this, but much of the growth in the past few years that has pushed us toward that projected number, the report says, has been driven by digital voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

Still, though, a slick plastic box with a speaker built in and a connection to the cloud does not a smart home make. All of the smart lighting dimmers and switches, smart climate control systems, smart locks, smart plugs, and so forth that make a smart home tick are still largely reliant on the sort of connected technologies