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Target bets on connected devices with own-branded smart lamp

Smart-home devices could be starting to take off. Parks Associates said last month that about 26 percent of U.S. homes that have high-speed Internet connection also had a smart-home device in 2016, compared with 19 percent the year before. It forecast that half of those homes would have at least one connected device by 2020.

From the article "Target bets on connected devices with own-branded smart lamp" by Benny Evangelista.

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