y now, there’s a good chance you’ve probably heard the buzz about smart-home technology. If you don’t have a device yourself, it’s likely you know someone who does. The Swedish consulting and analysis firm Berg Insights, which specializes in the “Internet of Things” (aka, the network of internet-connected devices), estimates that, as of 2022, 39.2 percent of all households in North America had at least one smart-home device — that’s 57.5 million smart homes! They predict that by 2027, 88.1 million homes in North America will be smart, or about 58 percent of all homes on the
