Smartwatches Will Drive Smart Home, Wearable Integration, ABI Research Says
Smartwatches will drive the integration of wearables into smart homes, even though fitness trackers were two-thirds of all wearable device shipments in 2014, ABI Research said in a report released Tuesday. The smart home market is expected to reach $34…
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billion in 2020, said ABI, and wearables integration will be a catalyst for more smart home proximal network communications. The integration is beginning to occur as device vendors open up their application programming interfaces and increasingly share data between wearables and devices such as thermostats or connected appliances, the researcher said. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi "are likely to gain significant traction with wearables penetration in the smart home market," said ABI.