Market study shows positive demand for smart home solutions
November 7th, 2008
5:07 pm
Market study shows positive market demand in Sweden for smart home solutions Nokia, together with its partners, conducted a web survey in Sweden to quantify the smart home market potential. The survey measured the interest for three different solution packages: security, energy saving and smart appliances. Security and energy saving proved to be the most popular, and in the end energy saving won with 55 % of the votes. However, when compared to the willingness to pay, security applications were slightly ahead of energy saving. The packages for the different solutions were pre-defined and consisted of basic, self-installable smart home components that could be controlled via mobile device. Overall, the interest in smart home solutions followed quite well the 33% - 33% - 33% theorem. This means that one third of the population is very interested in smart solutions for their homes, another third is somewhat interested and the rest don’t want to see any more technology at their homes. The web and mobile phone were clearly the preferred solutions for controlling smart home systems when compared to wall panels and remote controllers.