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European Smart Homes Influenced by US Tech Giants, ABI Reports

European smart homes over the next five years will triple to 103 million, and annual smart device shipments will reach more than 154 million, ABI Research reported Tuesday. Signify (formerly Philips Lighting), Hive, tado and Netatmo will gain there, the…

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researcher said. U.S. giants Amazon, Apple and Google will influence the market and its growth, said analyst Jonathan Collins. Attempts to replicate U.S. smart home strategies in Europe struggled, the analyst said, but products including from Deutsche Telekom and Swisscom are driving smart home management availability, and Vodafone and BT entered the smart home services market this year.