05.05.2016 16:49

Customers are buying solutions for real world problems - issues that impact their daily lives. They are looking very specifically for things like “security”, “energy control”, “assisted living,” etc. Consumers and end-users need to be able to monitor and control these different solutions from the same place – a single dashboard. They don’t want to have to use a variety of apps with different user interfaces (UI) to manage their homes and their family’s life. The model of the current smart phone – with a screen full of separate app icons for each function will not work. Consumers want a single app that can talk to all the services and appliances in their smart home.

Developers, manufacturers and service providers all need to work together – to bring all the different home equipment and services together under a single umbrella with a common UI (user interface) – a single app (see GreenPeak’s Smart Home Butler) that lets the family members understand what is happening in their home and enables them to manage it, if not managing it for them. Our homes need to be more than just connected, they need to be smart – in how they work and how they talk among themselves.

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