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Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

Q2 2024

Quantified Consumer

Smart Home: Integration, Automation, and Control

The smart home is at a moment of maturity, where nearly half of US internet households own a core smart home device. Smart home players need to rethink their products and strategies for a more mass market buyer. At the same time, many consumers experience the “smart home” through one or more point solutions solving unique pain points – rather than a coordinated intelligent home experience.

This flagship consumer study provides the latest trending data on smart home trends influencing consumer purchase behavior and preferences that provide critical intelligence for smart home business strategies. Topics include smart product adoption and purchase intention across multiple product categories, segmentation profiles, purchase channels and installation preferences, voice and control platforms, NPS by product category, and attitudes about interoperability.

Key questions addressed:

  1. How is smart home device adoption trending overall and among specified product categories?  
  2. How were recently added devices acquired and installed?
  3. How has the makeup of the adopter base changed since last year?
  4. What are the leading smart home control platforms?
  5. Do consumers coordinate their smart home devices to work together?
  6. What are the top smart home use cases driving device integrations and routines?
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Executive Summary

Smart Home Device Ownership

Growing Device Categories

Tech Affinity, Among Smart Home Device Owners

Number of Smart Home Devices Owned

Smart Home Device Affordable & Value Groups

Smart Home Device Purchases and Intentions to Buy

Smart Camera or Smart Video Doorbell Ownership

Paid Services for Stand-alone Video Products

Purpose of Smart Home Device Integration

Connected Device Owners with Coordinated Devices Working Together

Top 10 Appealing Actions/Routines

Preferred Methods of Initiating a Routine

Purchase and Ecosystem Integration Considerations

Number of Platform Used to Control Smart Home Devices

Smart Home Product Purchase Channel

Smart Security & Safety Devices: Professional Installation

Smart Energy Devices: Professional Installation

Smart Home Adoption

Smart Home Device Ownership

Smart Home Devices Adoption

Average Smart Home Devices Owned

Number of Smart Home Devices Owned

Tech Affinity, by Smart Home Device Ownership

Tech Affinity, Among Smart Home Device Owners

Geoffrey Moore's "Crossing the Chasm" Theory

Diffusion of Innovation: Tech Adopter Segments

Individual and Category Device Adoption

Smart Safety & Security Device Ownership

Smart Energy, Lighting, Water Device Ownership

Smart Appliance Ownership

Smart Speaker or Smart Display Ownership

The Business of Video Devices

Smart Camera or Smart Video Doorbell Ownership

Average # of Smart Cameras and Smart Video Doorbells Owned

Video Doorbell Brand Purchased

Smart Camera Brand Purchased

Paid Services for Video Doorbells

Paid Services for Network Cameras

Smart Video Doorbell: Monthly Service Fees

Smart Camera: Monthly Service Fees

Multifamily and Smart Home Adoption

Smart Home Device Adoption & Intention by Type of Residents

Smart Home Device Adoption & Intention by Type of Building

Smart Home Device Owners/User Segments

Smart Home Device Owners/User Segments

Smart Devices: Familiarity, Value, Affordability

Parks Associates Theory of Relevancy

Smart Devices: Familiarity vs. Value vs. Affordability

Smart Devices: Familiarity

Smart Device: Perceived Value of Benefit

Smart Devices: Affordability

Device Purchases and Triggers

Smart Home Device Purchases and Intentions to Buy

Smart Security & Safety Device Purchases

Smart Energy, Lighting, Water Device Purchases

Smart Appliance Purchases

Average Selling Price: Select Smart Home Devices

Reasons for Purchasing Smart Home Devices

Purchase Intentions

Smart Home Devices Purchase Intention: Safety & Security, Energy, Lighting, Water, Smart Appliance, Smart Home Control

Purchase Intention: Smart Safety & Security Devices

Purchase Intention: Smart Energy, Lighting, Water Device

Purchase Intention: Smart Appliance

Purchase Channels and Replacements

Smart Home Device Acquisition Method

Smart Home Device Acquisition Method – Purchases

Smart Home Device Acquisition Method – Gifts and Pre-installation

Smart Home Product Purchase Channel

Smart Home Devices Purchases: First Time vs. Repeat Purchases

Smart Home Devices Purchase: First Time vs. Repeat Purchase

Smart Security & Safety Devices: Professional Installation

Smart Energy Devices: Professional Installation

Smart Home Control Trends

Home Control App Usage

Primary Control Method of Smart Home Devices Units

Primary Control Method of Smart Safety & Security Device

Primary Control Method of Energy, Lighting, Water Device

Smart Home Platform Preferences

Platforms Used to Control Smart Home Devices

Number of Platform Used to Control Smart Home Devices

Most Used Platform Used to Control Smart Home Device

Number of Platform Used to Control Smart Home Devices by Smart Home Device Ownership

Preferred Provider for a Single Unified App

Future Purchase and Ecosystem Integration Considerations Among Intenders

Ecosystem Integration as Critical Consideration to Future Smart Home Device Purchase

Smart Home Routines/Integrations

Balance of Automation & Personal Preferences

Current Integration of Multiple Smart Home Devices Working Together

Purpose of Smart Home Device Integration

Appealing Actions/Routines Category

Top Appealing Actions/Routines

Appealing Actions/Routines Around Entrance

Appealing Actions for a “Away” Routine

Appealing Actions for a “Bedtime” Routine

Appealing Actions for a “Wake-up” Routine

Appealing Actions for a “Entertainment” Routine

Appealing Actions for a “Dinner Time” Routine

Appealing Actions for a “Work at Home” Routine

US Internet HHs with a Remote Worker at Home

Appealing Actions for Helping Care for Loved Ones

Preferred Methods of Initiating a Routine

User Experience: NPS & Returns

Net Promoter Score: Smart Home Devices 2024

Smart Home Device NPS: Households with Children

Smart Home Device NPS by Tech Affinity

Net Promoter Score: Smart Safety & Security Devices

Net Promoter Score: Energy, Lighting, Water Device

Net Promoter Score: Smart Appliance

Smart Home Device Purchases and Return

Smart Home Device Return Rate in the Last 12 Months vs Purchase rate in the Past 6 Months

Reasons for Returning Smart Home Devices

Appendix

Demographic Breakdown of Tech Adopter Segments

Housing-related Demographic Breakdown of Tech Adopter Segments

Defining Heads of Internet Households

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