Stats Show Smart Home Systems Dominate Consumer FocusBy John Voket
These days, smart home IT devices can handle nearly everything, from prepping your morning coffee and turning on lights as it gets dark to activating smart cooking and cleaning appliances that prepare your dinner or vacuuming the living room before you get home.
These smart home practices are only growing; the advanced electronics industry is banking on the fact that a lot more of us are going to go high-tech in the coming year or so. According to the Consumer Technology Association's report, "U.S. Consumer Technology Sales and Forecasts," artificial intelligence (AI), voice-recognition technology and fast connectivity—critical ingredients for smart speakers, smart home technologies and smartphones—has helped spur overall U.S. consumer technology spending by 6 percent in 2018 (to $377 billion in retail sales). Key categories projected to contribute significantly to overall unit and revenue growth include:
In addition, the CTA's report anticipates fitness activity trackers, other health and fitness devices, smartwatches, personal sound amplification products and sports tech like smart baseball bats or basketballs will reach sales of 46.1 million units. John Voket is a contributing editor to RISMedia. |
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