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LONDON-ABI Research recently published "The Emerging Role for Smart Homes in the Smart City," a report that examines areas of overlap between smart homes and smart cities and the potential for interaction between the two.
"We are seeing more interest in both these markets and . the interaction between them is starting to expand," Jonathan Collins, research director for ABI and author of the report, told Security Systems News. "We're talking about ... where the data feed from a connected home or a smart home can then be leveraged by a wider system."
According to Collins, "By 2022 a global install base of nearly 300 million smart homes will put smart home providers in the position to provide a ready data source for smart city applications. Current smart city projects typically address applications including transportation, healthcare provision, environmental management and more. Increasingly, smart home providers are showing they can deliver similar functionality by adding additional application capabilities for their smart home customer base."
He added, "By 2022, ABI Research forecasts that nearly half (125 million) of those homes will be integrated into some smart city program." The U.S. will be between 40 and 45 percent of that worldwide install base by 2022, he said.
Collins pointed to energy management...